Food Festivals UK 2017
A Comprehensive Guide To
Foodie Events & Festivals Around The UK
APRIL 2017
Godalming Food Festival - April 1
Godalming, Surrey GU7 1AZ
http://www.godalmingfoodfestival.co.uk/
Great Missenden Food Festival - April 14 - 17
Buckinghamshire
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk/
Artisan Cheese Fair – April 29-30
Exhibition Halls, Cattle Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE13 1JY
artisancheesefair.co.uk
Mapledurham Food Festival - April 29 - May 1
Reading, Berkshire
www.mapledurham.co.uk/events
Lotherton Food and Drink Festival - April 29 - May 1
Ely Food and Drink Festival - April 30 - May 1
Cambridgeshire
www.elyeelfestival.co.uk/foodanddrink
Eastnor Castle Chilli Fair - April 30 - May 1
Eastnor, Herefordshire HR8 1RL
http://eastnorcastle.com/
MAY 2017
Christchurch Food Festival - May 6-7
Dorset
www.christchurchfoodfest.co.uk
Letchworth Chilli Show - May 13
Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 3EU
http://www.chillifest.net/
Essex Fine Food Show - May 13-14
Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 1QP United Kingdom
http://2017essexfinefoodshow.apteventspro.co.uk
So Food Festival - May 13 -14
Wallingford
Bridge Villa Camping and Caravan Park, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8HB
Northampton Food and Drink Festival - May 13 -14
Becket's Park, Northampton, Northamptonshire NN1 1DE
Newcastle Food and Drink Festival - May 13 - 14
https://www.pjjevents.co.uk/
St Ives Food and Drink Festival – May 13-14
Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 2EB
stivesfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk
Devizes Food and Drink Festival May 13-21
The Market Place, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1JQ
Great Missenden Food Festival - May 14-17
Buckinghamshire
www.greatmissendenfoodfestival.co.uk
WGC World Food Festival, - May 20
Howardsgate, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL8 6BB
Witney Festival of Food and Drink - May 20
St. Mary’s, Church Green, Witney, Oxon, OX28 4AW
www.witneyfoodfestival.co.uk
Alcester and Forest of Arden Spring Food Festival - May 20
Alcester High Street, Warwickshire, B49 5AF
Highcliffe Revival Food Festival - May 20
Lymington Road, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 5EE
Monmouthshire Food Festival - May 20 - 21
Caldicot Castle
https://monmouthshirefoodfestival.co.uk/
Devon Chilli Show - May 20 - 21
Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8PH
Alresford Watercress Festival - May 21
Alresford Watercress Festival
Stoneyhurst Food Festival - May 21 - 23
Lancashire
www.greatbritishfoodfestival.com/stonyhurst
Goodwood Food Festival - May 25 - 27
Goodwood Racecourse, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PS
Malton Food Lovers Festival – May 27 - 28th
Malton, North Yorkshire YO17 7EG
http://maltonyorkshire.co.uk/food-lovers-festival/
Blenheim Palace Food Festival – May 27- 29
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PS
www.blenheimpalace.com
The Great British Food Festival at Weston Park - May 27- 29
Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard, Shifnal TF11 8LE
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
The Great British Food Festival at Harewood House - May 27 - 29th
Harewood House, Sandy Gate, Harewood, Leeds
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
Foodies Festival Richmond - May 27 – 29
Syon Park, Park Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 8JF
Letchworth Food and Drink Festival - May 27
Town Centre, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3EA
Beccles Food and Drink Festival - May 27
The Walk, Beccles NR34 9AJ
Ashby Gusto Food and Drink Festival May 27- 28
Bath Grounds, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1GP
Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival - May 28 - 29
Vale of Glamorgan, nr Cardiff
https://cowbridgefoodanddrink.org/
Surrey Food and Drink Market - May 28 - 29
Lloyd Park, Croydon, Surrey CR0 5RA
Fleet Food Festival - May 28
The Views, Harlington Way, Fleet, Hampshire GU51 4AE
Warwick Food Festival - May 28
28Market Place, Warwick, Warwickshire CV34 4SA
Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling - May 29
Cooper's Hill, Gloucester, GL3 4SB
Great Malvern Food Festival - May 29
Great Malvern Priory Church, Church Street, Malvern WR14
JUNE 2017
Hatfield House Food Festival - June 2 - 4
Hatfield House, Hatfield Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 5NQ
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk
Carnaby Street Eat - June 3
Carnaby Street, London W1F 7DA
Vegan Summer Fest - June 3 - 4
Brighton, West Sussex BN2 9SY
https://www.facebook.com/VeganSummerFestUK/
The Food Fest 2017, Kent - June 3 - 4
Mount Vineyard, Shoreham, Kent.
http://www.thefoodfest.com
Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival - June 9 - 11
Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 1UW
www.cheltenham-food-festival.garden-events.com
The Barleylands Food and Drink Festival, Essex - June 10 - 11
Barleylands Road, Billericay, Essex, CM11 2UD
http://livingheritagefoodfestivals.co.uk/barleylands
Towcester food Festival - June 10 - 11
Towcester Racecourse, Towcester NN12 6LB
The Heart Food Festival - June 10 - 11
Walton on Thames, Surrey
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk
Stamford Food and Drink Festival - June 10-12
Town Meadows, Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2QU
Cheese and Chilli Festival, Dorset - June 10 -11
Hurn Bridge Equestrian Centre, Hurn, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 6AD.
http://cheeseandchillifestival.com/
Newcastle Vegan Festival - June 10
The Assembly Rooms, Fenkle St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5XU
Congleton Food and Drink Festival, Cheshire - June 11
Congleton Town Hall (o/s), Congleton, Cheshire East CW12
http://www.foodanddrinkfestival.net/
Taste of Sudbury Food and Drink Festival - June 11
Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2EH
Taste of the Best Produce in Kent - June 11
Biddenden Vineyards, Gribble Bridge Lane, Biddenden, Kent TN27 8DF
Taste of London - June 14-18
Regents Park, London NW1 5HA
london.tastefestivals.com
BBC Good Food Show Summer - June 15 -18
NEC, Pendigo Way, Birmingham, West Midlands B40 1NT
Feast Weekend at Waddeson - June 17-18
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0JH
www.waddesdon.org.uk
Reading Chilli Festival - June 17
Reading
www.readingchillifest.co.uk
Foodies Festival Birmingham - June 23 - 25
Cannon Hill Park, 2 Russell Road, Birmingham. West Midlands B13 8RD
Nonsuch Food and Drink Festival - June 24 - 25
Nonsuch Park, London Road, Epsom, Surrey KT17 2DL
Hyde End Food Festival - June 24 - 25
Chesham Road, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 0RD
Cheese and Chilli Festival Basingstoke - June 24-25
War Memorial Park, London Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 4AH
www.cheeseandchillifestival.com
The Colchester Food and Drink Festival - June 24 - 25
Lower Castle Park, 61 King Stephen Road, Colchester, Essex CO1 1HL
Oundle Food Festival - June 24
Market Place, Oundle, Peterborough PE8 4EL
Gefiltefest London Jewish Food Festival - June 25
JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET
Bradford Vegan Festival - June 24
Bradford Football Club, Northern Commercial Stadium, Valley Parade, Bradford BD8 7DY
Abingdon Food And Drink Festival - June 24
Rye Farm Meadow, Abingdon Bridge, OX14 3HP
http://abingdonfoodfestival.org.uk/
Colemore Food Festival - June 30 – July 1
Victoria Square, Birmingham, B1 1BD
http://www.colmorefoodfestival.com/
North East Chilli Show - June 30 - July 2
Oppos Gloucester Lodge Farm, Blyth NE24 3PH
http://www.chillifest-ne.co.uk
JULY 2017
Godalming Food Festival - July 1
Godalming, Surrey GU7 1AZ
http://www.godalmingfoodfestival.co.uk
Eat Drink Ealing - July 1
Ealing Common, Uxbridge Road, London W5 3FB
Farnborough World Food Fair - July 1
https://www.fuseprojects.co.uk/upcomingevents
The Cotwold Show and Food Festival - July 1-2
Cirencester Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1XB
SpringLamb Food Festival - July 1-2
Glan Bryner Farm, Pontllanfraith, Wales NP12 2AS
https://www.facebook.com/springlambff/
Kelsall Food Festival - July 1 - 2
Nr Chester, Cheshire
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk
Chilli Fest Chipenham - July 8
Market Place, Chippenham SN15 3HF
http://www.chillifest.net/
Love Natural Love Organic - July 7 - 9
Olympia, Kensington, London W14 8UX
Wetherby Food Festival - July 7- 9
https://www.pjjevents.co.uk/
Foodies Festival, Blackheath Common - July 7- 9
Blackheath Common. Goffers Road London SE3 7AS
Frome Food Feast - July 7 – 16
Cheese & Grain, Market Yard, Frome, Somerset BA11 1BE
Hastings Midsummer Fish Fest - July 8 - 9
Stade, Rock-a-Nore Road Hastings East Sussex TN34 3FJ
Elveden Food and Drink Market - July 8 - 9
London Road Thetford Norfolk IP24 3TJ
Pommery Dorset Seafood Festival - July 8 - 9
Weymouth Harbour, Dorset
The Great British Food Festival at Kelmarsh Hall - July 8 – 9
Kelmarsh Hall, Harborough Rd, Kelmarsh NN6 9LY
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
Cardiff International Food Festival - July 14 - 16
Cardiff
www.visitcardiff.com
Horsforth Food and Drink Festival - July 14 - 16
https://www.pjjevents.co.uk/
Essex Fine Food Show - July 14 -15
Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 1QP United Kingdom
http://2017essexfinefoodshow.apteventspro.co.uk
Elaston Castle Food and Drink Festival - July 15 - 16
Elvaston Castle Country Park, Borrowash Road, Derby, Derbyshire DE72 3EP
St Albans Food and Drink Festival - July 15 - 16
Highfield Park. Hill Lane St Albans Hertfordshire AL4 0RE
Essex Festival of Food and Drink - July 15-16
Cressing Temple Barns, Braintree Essex CM77 8PD
Kettering Food Festival - July 15
The Green Patch, Valley Walk, Kettering Northamptonshire NN16 0LU
Bath Chilli Show - July 15 -16
University of Bath. Avon BA2 7AY
http://www.bathchillifestival.com/
Whitstable Oyster Festival - July 21-31
Whitstable, Kent CT5 1DB
Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival - July 22- 23
Funkirk Farm, Skipton
http://www.yorkshiredalesfoodanddrinkfestival.com/
The Great British Food Festival at Knebworth - July 22nd
Knebworth House, Knebworth Hertfordshire SG1 2AX
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
Jimmy's Festival, Suffolk - July 22 - 23
The Street, Wherstead, Nr Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2AR
jimmysfestival.co.uk
Food Feast South East - July 22 - 23
Nash Street Farm, Nr Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 4AB
https://foodfeastsoutheast.co.uk/
Kenilworth Food Festival - July 23
Abbey Fields, Kenilworth CV8 1BP
The Cheese and Chilli Festival - July 22-23
Guildford
www.cheeseandchillifestival.com
New Forest and Hampshire Country Show - July 25 - 27
New Forest
Port Eliot Cornwall - July 27 - 30
St Germans, Saltash, Cornwall PL12 5ND
porteliotfestival.com
PieFest - July 29-30
Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, LE13 1JY
The Great British Food Festival at Castle Howard - July 29 - 30
Castle Howard, York YO60 7DA
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
AUGUST 2017
The Sandringham Food And Drink Festival - August 5 - 6
Sandringham Estate, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE35 6EN
http://livingheritagefoodfestivals.co.uk/sandringham/
Cheese and Chilli Festival Swindon - August 5 - 6
Lydiard Park, Swindon SN5 3PA
www.cheeseandchillifestival.com
Great Dorset Chilli Festival - August 5 - 6
St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset BH21 5ND
greatdorsetchillifestival.co.uk
Worcester Foodie Festival - August 5 - 6
High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire WR1
Chilli Fiesta - August 11 -13
West Dean, Chichester
Clithero Food Festival - Aug 12
http://clitheroefoodfestival.com/
Lymington Seafood Festival - August 12 - 13
Bath Road Recreation Ground, Bath Road. Lymington Hampshire SO41 3SE
Bath and Bristol Food Festival - August 12 - 13
Lansdown, Bath BA1 9BU
Nottingham Food Festival - August 12 – 13
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham NG8 2AE
http://livingheritagefoodfestivals.co.uk/nottingham-2/
Portsmouth Food and Drink Festival - August 18 - 20
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Victory Gate, HM Naval Base,. Portsmouth, Hants PO1 3LJ
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival - August 19 - 20
Fighting Cocks Crossroads, Bathingbourne Lane, Sandown, Isle of Wight PO36 0LU
garlicfestival.co.uk
Maldon Smoke and fire Festival, Essex - August 19 - 20
The Promenade, Park Drive, Maldon Essex CM9 5JQ
Mark Hix's Food Rocks - August 19 - 20
Marine Parade and Cart Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3JF
hixrestauarants.co.uk
Cheese and Chilli Festival - August 19 - 20
North Walls Recreation Ground, Winchester
http://cheeseandchillifestival.com/
Taste Angus - August 19 - 20
Glamis Castle, DD8 1RJ
https://www.tasteangus.co.uk/
Alex James's The Big Festival, - August 25 - 27
Alex James' Farm, nr Kingham Oxfordshire OX7 6UJ
thebigfestival.com
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsttall's River Cottage Festival, Devon - August 26 - 27
River Cottage, Trinity Hill Road, Axminster, Devon EX13 8TB
rivercottage.net
A Taste of Donegal Food Festival - August 25 - 27
The Pier, Donegal Town
http://www.atasteofdonegal.com/
Lichfield Food Festival - August 26 - 28
Lichfield city centre including Market Square
http://lichfieldfood.co.uk
The Great British Food Festival at Bowood House - August 26 - 28
Bowood House, Derry Hill, Calne, SN11 0LZ
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/bowood-house/
Wimbledon Park Food And Drink Festival - August 26 - 28
Wimbledon Park
http://www.fantasticbritishfoodfestivals.com/wimbledon-park-food-festival.html
Foodies Festival, Alexandra Palace - August 26 - 28
Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY
BBC Good Food Festival, Hampton Court - August 26 - 28
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU
Food For Thorpe - August 26 - 27
Springfield, Golden Lane, Thorpe-le-Soken. Clacton-on-Sea CO16 0LD
Food Gusto Appleby Festival - August 26
Sir John Moore Foundation, Appleby Magna,. Leicestershire DE12 7AH
Benington Chilli Festival - August 26 - 28
Benington Lordship, Stevenage, Herts SG2 7BS
http://beningtonlordship.co.uk/events/chillifestival.shtml
Great Missenden Food Festival - August 26 - 28
Buckinghamshire
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk
Cassiobury Park Food and Drink Festival - August 27-28
Cassiobury Park, Cassiobury Park Ave, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 7LD
Wimbledon Park Food and Drink Festival - August 27-29
Wimbledon Park, Wimbledon, London SW19
Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Festival - August 27-28
Town Centre Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Odiham Flavourfest - August 28
Odiham Flavourfest
SEPTEMBER 2017
Meatopia, London - September 1 - 3
Tobacco Dock, London E1W 2SF
meatopia.co.uk
Nantwich Food Festival - September 1
Nantwich Town Centre
http://www.nantwichfoodfestival.co.uk/
Hamble Food Festival - September 2
Waddesdon Manor Chilli Festival - September 2-3
Buckinghamshire
www.waddesdon.org.uk
Millets Chilli Fiesta - September 2-3
Oxfordshire
www.milletsfarmcentre.com
Leeds Castle Food Festival - September 8 -10
Leedcs Castle
http://www.fantasticbritishfoodfestivals.com/leeds-castle-food-festival.html
Leamington Food and Drink - September 9 -10
The Royal Pump Room Gardens, Centre of Leamington Spa
http://www.leamingtonfoodfestival.co.uk/
Mapledurham Food Festival - September 9 - 10
Nr Reading, Berkshire
http://www.mapledurhamfestival.co.uk
Malton Harvest Food Festival - September 9
Yorkshire
http://maltonyorkshire.co.uk/harvest-food-festival/
Sheffield Vegan Festival - September 10
Cutlers' Hall Hospitality, Church St, Sheffield S1 1HG
http://veganfestival.co.uk/sheffield
Abergavenny Food Festival, - September 16 - 17
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire NP7 5AU
free.abergavennyfoodfestival.com
Weston Super Food Festival - September 16 -17
The Tropicana, Marine Parade, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BE
http://westonsuperfoodfestival.co.uk/
Fiery Foods Festival - September 16 - 17
Victoria Gardens, Brighton, W Sussex BN1 1WN
http://fieryfoodsuk.co.uk/
Mold Food Festival - September 16 - 17
North Wales
www.moldfoodfestival.co.uk
Alton FlavourFest - September 17
https://www.fuseprojects.co.uk/upcomingevents
Canterbury Food and Drink - September 22 - 24
Dane John Gardens, Canterbury, CT1 2TN
http://www.producedinkent.co.uk/events/
The Great British Food Festival at Arley Hall - September 23 - 24
Arley Hall, Arley, Northwich CW9 6NA
https://greatbritishfoodfestival.com/
Hampshire Chilli Fest - September 23
https://www.fuseprojects.co.uk/upcomingevents
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival, - September 23 - 24
Snape Maltings, Snape, near Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 1SR
aldeburghfoodanddrink.co.uk
Street Food Live - September 26 - 27
Excel London
http://www.streetfoodlive.co.uk/index.asp
Manchester Food and Drink Festival - September 28 – Oct 9
Machester City Centre
http://foodanddrinkfestival.com/
Neath Food and Drink Festival - September 29 - Oct 1
South Wales
www.npt.gov.uk
Broadstairs Food Festival - September 29 - October 1 - TBC
http://www.broadstairsfoodfestival.org.uk/
Thame Food Festival - September 30 - Oct 1
Oxfordshire
www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk
OCTOBER 2017
Hertford Food and Drink Festival - October 6 - 8
Hertford Town Centre – various locations
http://www.hertford.gov.uk/events/-hertford-food-and-drink-festival-332/
Tiny Rebel Newport Food and Drink Festival - October 7
Newport City Centre
http://www.newport.gov.uk/newportFoodFestival/en/Newport-Food-Festival.aspx
Challock Chilli Festival - October 7 - 8
Challock, Kent TN25 4DG
https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/Challock_Chilli_Fest/
Dartmouth Food Festival - October 20 - 22
Dartmouth town Centre
http://www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com/
Gwledd Conwy Feast - October 28 - 29
Conwy town
https://conwyfeast.co.uk/
Crewe Cosmopolitan Festival - October 29
Crewe Town Centre, Crewe, Cheshire. CW1 2NG
http://crewefoodfestival.co.uk/
NOVEMBER 2017
ChocFest - November 18
Melton Mowbray Cattle Market, Scalford Road. LE13 1JY
http://www.goleicestershire.com/events/chocfest.aspx
Edinburgh Vegan Festival - November 19
The Roxburghe Hotel, 38 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4HQ
http://veganfestival.co.uk/edinburgh
Leeds Castle Xmas Food Festival - November 25 - 26
Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent ME17 1PL
https://www.leeds-castle.com/home?
DECEMBER 2017
Leeds Castle Xmas Food Festival - December 2 - 3
Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent ME17 1PL
https://www.leeds-castle.com/home?
Leeds Castle Xmas Food Festival - December 9 -10
Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent ME17 1PL
https://www.leeds-castle.com/home?
***Please check with each festival for correct information, as these may vary***