Let Antony organise all the elements for your perfect Henley outing including a fantastic picnic, fine wines and champagne whilst you cruise up and down the regatta course, watch the racing or enjoy the music festival and take in the atmosphere at your leisure.

Our skippered boats will take up to 6 guests.   Should you have tickets for any of the enclosures we would be delighted to incorporate this into the day or evening and if you have any special requests please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Please feel free to bring along anything extra you may require, but please be mindful of limited storage space
Attire: suitably festive dress with warm wraps or jackets a must thanks to our changeable English weather and sensible shoes advisable

Henley Royal Regatta
Wednesday 2nd – Sunday 6th July 2008 midday until 6pm

Henley Festival of Music & Arts
Wednesday 9th – Sunday 13th July 2008 5pm until 11pm

Package includes:
Skippered 30’ boat
½ bottle of champagne per person
½ bottle of Sancerre, Brouilly or Rosé per person
1 bottle mineral water per person
Four course tiffin tin picnic per person
All necessary cutlery and glassware
£1500.00 + vat

Please call Nicola on 0118 940 5901 for availability or email nicola@awtrestaurants.com

The hall was packed with 500 people who were wowed as Mr Worrall Thompson cooked up a culinary storm making a chicken kiev and peppercorn steak.

Also during the evening award winning sausage makers and butchers from across the country came together to whip up a variety of pork dishes

Mr Doherty discussed the importance of supporting farmers and the re-introduction of game into our diets. Trainee chef Ashley Walcott, brother of Arsenal football ace Theo Walcott, was also on hand to help.

The BBC food and wine presenter Nigel Barden hosted the evening with fifth generation London butcher David Lidgate. Mr Barden also held an auction at the end of the night. Some of the top prizes included a meal with wine for 14 people at Pied à Terre, which is a 2 Michelin starred restaurant in London, which was bought for £2,500.

The event's organiser, the award winning Gravel Path butcher Joe Collier, said: " It was a wonderful night. Everyone put such a lot of hard work and effort in. I can't thank them enough because the money goes to such a good cause."

The Pepper Foundation is a local charity that cares for seriously ill or terminally ill children in the local community.

Antony says “I’m a big fan of Emmerdale and had a great time in the Woolpack putting Marlon through his paces.”

Anita Turner, Series Producer says “We were delighted that Antony was available to make this cameo appearance for us in what is going to be a fun-filled episode to celebrate the 5000 landmark.”

Sandra Dick, Cook at Crowmarsh Gifford C of E Primary School is delighted to have been personally invited to cook alongside celebrity chefs Antony Worrall Thompson, The Crooked Billet’s Paul Clerehugh and leading game chef Mike Robinson at a charity fundraising function in May. And the event is already a sell-out!

‘I never dreamt I’d ever get to meet these guys, never mind cook with them,’ said Sandra, who has proved a great success at the school since starting last September (2007). ‘They asked me if I’d help them when they visited school to discuss our charity fundraising night. I couldn’t believe it  - I’m over the moon.’

The novel idea of cooking a gourmet three course meal for 150 guests first came up after the chefs were approached by the school’s health team for help with fundraising for vital kitchen equipment to enable the school to continue and build upon their hugely successful new school dinners.

Local chef, Paul Clerehugh (Crooked Billet, Stoke Row and London Street
Brasserie, Reading) has championed school meals for many years.  A father
of three, he is passionate about children's nutrition.  Paul provided
daily meals to his village school, Stoke Row Primary C of E, for two
years.  He was consultant to the second series of Jamie Oliver's "Jamie’s
Dinners" who filmed Paul's lunches at Stoke Row School.  He wrote the
school meals’ information pack for HRH Prince Charles' Pub is the Hub
initiative.  Paul also works with Jeanette Orrey - the original Jamie’s
Dinner Lady and Prue Leith in her capacity as Chair of the School Meals
Trust.

Paul was so impressed with Crowmarsh Primary School’s determination to
provide delicious healthy nutritious meals for its pupils that he
persuaded Antony Worral Thompson and Mike Robinson to help raise funds
for new catering equipment at the school.  Paul praised school cook Sandra
for her passion and determination and for preparing imaginative tasty
dishes from such a tiny kitchen.  ‘The team effort from parents, teachers,
head teacher and Sandra is astonishing.’ said Paul who singled out mums Claire Hyde, Maria Wilson and Georgina Gold for getting the ball rolling and their vision.

Head teacher Barbara O’Dwyer is looking forward to the gourmet evening. ‘This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to sample the delights of great British food cooked by great chefs,’ she said. ‘We hope to raise enough money to assist with kitchen ventilation and equipment costs. Now we have over 100 cooked lunches a day we need to make sure our cook, Sandra remains 'cool ' and efficient.’

Uptake of school dinners at Crowmarsh Primary School has soared since Sandra was recruited to cook fresh healthy meals from scratch onsite. Prior to Sandra’s arrival, the school only offered food that was prepared elsewhere and elsewhere and reheated onsite. Numbers opting for school meals sometimes fell as low as 10 but now Sandra and her team regularly serve up 100 plus meals. And with 200 pupils at the school, there’s plenty of opportunity to increase numbers even more.

Change came about via parent power. They decided they weren’t happy with the standard of the food served up and led a campaign to opt out of the county council scheme. Supported by both the head teacher and governors, members of the school’s health team visited other schools to see what was on offer and, after extensive research, opted for High Wycombe based Educational Catering consultants Food For Thought for advice and practical help.

The Black Tie event will take place at Benson Parish Hall on Saturday May 17th and will also feature a Grand Auction of donated prizes including four places at The Mike Robinson Game and Wild Food Cookery School, a  two hour introduction to polo at Ascot Park Polo Club, a sightseeing flight and a widescreen TV.