The first ever New Forest Food & Drink Festival Week takes place this autumn from October 31 to November 6.

The New Forest has been one of the UK’s best-kept foodie secrets for too long.

So now it’s time to share our amazing food and drink and celebrate the people who bring it to us – the farmers, bakers, brewers, chocolatiers, fishermen, foragers and chefs, at the first New Forest Food and Drink Festival.

We’re giving readers a chance to win a pair of tickets and an overnight stay at Burley Manor on Tuesday 1st November.

If you’re one of those people who believe that the words ‘vegetarian’ and ‘banquet’ are incompatible, then let Burley Manor, and celebrity chef Simon Rimmer, prove you wrong…in style!

A familiar face on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, Simon, will be hosting the headline event for The Vegetarian Forest Feast theme.

He’s well-qualified for this, having started his celebrated veggie restaurant, Greens, in 1990 which The Guardian newspaper described as ‘one of the most exciting restaurants in the UK’.

Arrive at Burley Manor to a glass of Perrier-Jouët champagne, then indulge in Simon’s fourcourse vegetarian feast before settling down to a lively, 30-minute talk on his adventures in cookery and a book signing.

For your chance to win, simply answer the following question:

Q. How many themes does The New Forest Food and Drink Festival feature?

By post: Send your completed entry form to New Forest Festival Competition, Dorset Echo, Fleet House, Hampshire Road, Weymouth, Dorset, DT49XD before the closing date of 24th October 2016.

By phone: Simply call 09011510237 and leave your answer and details when prompted.

By text: Send your text to 80360 starting with NEWFOREST leave a space, followed by your answer, name and contact details.

Terms and conditions:

Calls cost 51p per minute from a BT Landline plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from mobiles and some other networks may cost more.

Texts cost 50p plus your normal operator text charge.

Telephone and text lines open 17/10/2016 and close 24/10/2016 at 23:59PM.

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The overnight stay for and the Vegetarian Forest Feast event tickets for two are only valid for the Tuesday 1 November when the event takes place.

Prizes are non-transferable, non-refundable, non-changeable and no cash alternatives are available.

For more information about the festival, visit www.thenewforest.co.uk/ newforestfoodfest. Or follow The New Forest Food & Drink Festival on social media; you can find them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.