A diary for people who travel for food

What’s listed

The diary lists 199 festivals across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We include festivals where food and drink are the main event: food and drink festivals, food shows, street-food festivals, single-food festivals (cheese, chilli, garlic, seafood, chocolate and more), producers’ festivals and Christmas food fairs. We leave out beer-, wine- or gin-only festivals, general Christmas markets and regular farmers’ markets.

Each touring series — such as a festival that visits several towns each year — has a separate page for each stop, because every town is a different day out.

How we check dates

• Every listing is checked against the festival’s own website or official announcements, and shows the date we last checked it and our sources.
• When a festival hasn’t announced next year’s dates, we say so and show when it usually happens, rather than guessing.
• Dates change. If you spot something out of date, please tell us — and always check with the organiser before you travel.

Reviews and comments

There are 0 approved reviews and 0 comments so far. Every festival started with none: we have never written, bought or imported a review. Ratings are plain averages of approved reviews and appear once a festival has 3. Read our review and comment policy.

How the site is paid for

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Credits

Photos: see photo credits. Icons are our own drawings. Fonts: Fraunces and Instrument Sans, both under the SIL Open Font License.

Get in touch

Corrections, new festivals and questions are welcome — see contact.