From the 20th of December the South Bank in London will be hosting the city’s first ever slow food market.

Organised by Slow Food UK to promote clean, sustainable and fabulous tasting food (which is how we like our food here at Qype), the market will contain 25 stalls including Mark Gilchrist of Game for Everything, a special Christmas range from Patchwork Pâtés, specially prepared rare-bree pork and Somerset Cider Brandy stuffing and sausages courtesy of Sillfield Farm, the Somerset Cider Brandy Company, and Montgomery Cheddar and Stitchelton Blue Cheese from the famous Neal’s Yard Dairy.

Hungry yet?

Well if you fancy getting your taste buds on this fantastic selection of festive foodstuffs then we might be able to help.

The lovely people at the South Bank Employers Group have invited Qype to the opening day of the market and have very kindly extended the invitation to the Qype community.

Welll be visiting the market on the afternoon of Thursday 20th December (we haven’t confirmed a time yet but it will probably around 4ish) where we’ll take a tour of the stalls before retiring to a nearby bar for a bit of VIP Qype treatment.

Unfortunately there’s a limited number of places available for the trip so if you’d like to come along then please send us an email and we’ll put your name down on the list.

And if you can’t make it on the 20th or you’re not in London, then don’t worry because we’ll be holding a lot more events in 2008. Watch this space!