Simon Rogan is swapping L’Enclume for the festival field at Big Feastival over the August Bank Holiday. Ahead of his appearance at The Big Kitchen, he talks to The Knife about 900kg of cabbage, the festival dish he’d create, raiding Our Farm for camping supplies, supporting Tom Barnes and where you’ll find him once he’s officially off the clock.

Every celebrity chef from last year asked to return. That alone tells you something about Stranraer Oyster Festival. Now, with Sam Heughan joining Matt Tebbutt, Tony Singh and Rosemary Shrager for 2026, Scotland’s wildest and most unexpected food festival is becoming one of the UK’s defining culinary weekends, all built around 23 million native oysters beneath the waters of Loch Ryan.