Michelin-starred chef Tomás Gormley to dish up 'Feast of Words' supper club at Edinburgh Folk & Food Festival
Tomás Gormley is a huge star on the Edinburgh foodie scene with restaurants such as Heron, Skua and Cardinal under his belt
Edinburgh Folk & Food Festival is preparing to take place later this month with a special supper club event involving Michelin-starred chef Tomás Gormley.
‘Feast Of Words’ is a brand-new addition for this year’s event and will see the talented chef created a specially curated three-course tasting menu.
Meals will be served over the course of a 90-minute immersive event hosted by award-winning writer and designer Casey Jay Andrews and musician Jack Brett during which guests will also be treated to a spoken word performance and storytelling.
Tomás is best known on Edinburgh’s food scene for earning a Michelin star at Leith spot Heron alongside fellow chef Sam Yorke, as well as opening Stockbridge hotspot Skua, and Cardinal, his first solo project which opened on Eyre Place in March 2024.
He spoke to the Evening News about his preparations for the Feast of Words event at the Palais du Variété Spiegeltent in Assembly George Square Gardens.
The award-winning chef said: “I think people are just looking for different experiences, the ones that kind of bring people together.
“People are really attracted to the idea of community and doing things with people that you don't necessarily know already.
“I think also just doing things in the real world is becoming a real selling point at the moment with everything being so increasingly online.”
The menu created by Tomás includes foraged girolle broth, BBQ Bramblewood Farm mutton, and Blackety Side strawberries from Fife with cultured clotted cream, with vegetarian and vegan options available.
Tomás, who also run his ‘Coop’ chicken pop-up, said: “When I was speaking to Casey and planning the menu, that was a really interesting process because it's not something that I'm used to doing at all.
“I usually just make my menus based on what is in season, what's available to me, what I fancy doing but this felt like a real kind of collaboration in a way that was super new to me because it isn't either working with another chef or working with the seasons - even though we are within the menu.
“We also had to make sure that there was an opportunity for her creative side to come out for the menu and so that was super interesting for me and I feel like what we've come up with is really delicious.”
He said: “It's still a little bit early for me to actually be prepping any food for the event but there's quite a lot of like pickled and fermented elements to the dish that I've been working on all year.
“We've got some fermented white asparagus vinegar that's going into one of the opening courses and so that was prepared in March when white asparagus was really in season.
“I'm starting to get loads of nice mushrooms in and that'll be going in the first course also so loads of like chanterelles and pied de mouton and things like that. They're being pickled down and preserved as we speak and some of that will be going onto the menu.
“I'm also just trying to get my head around the logistics of cooking for that many people in a field in the middle of town. I'm lucky in that I know the site quite well now because of Coop but this is very different but I'm sure it'll be great.”
Feast of Words will be taking place from July 29 until July 31 as part of the Folk & Food Festival 2026.
This year’s festival, which runs from July 24 until August 2, also features a number of street food workshops, musicacts, early access Fringe performances, and live cooking demonstrations, including from Scottish MasterChef Champion Sarah Rankin.
Tickets for Feast of Words are priced at £46.25 each and can be purchased on the Edinburgh Folk & Food Festival website, where more details on the full festival programme can also be found.