Food FeastivalsThe UK food festival diary

Food festivals in North West England

15 festivals in our diary, 3 with dates coming up.

Scotland — 19 festivalsSCOTLAND19Northern Ireland — 9 festivalsN IRELAND9North East England — 6 festivalsNORTH EAST6North West England — 15 festivalsNORTH WEST15Yorkshire and the Humber — 18 festivalsYORKSHIRE18Wales — 15 festivalsWALES15West Midlands — 19 festivalsW MIDLANDS19East Midlands — 15 festivalsE MIDLANDS15East of England — 9 festivalsEAST9London — 11 festivalsLONDON11South East England — 30 festivalsSOUTH EAST30South West England — 33 festivalsSOUTH WEST33
A Herdwick sheep on a rocky fellside in the Lake District, with a valley and lake far below
Photo: Julian Herzog (Website), CC BY 4.0

Coming up

Taste Cumbria Christmas

When: Sat 5 – Sun 6 Dec 2026

Cockermouth, Cumbria

ChristmasChef demosLocal producers Free entry

Free From Festival Manchester

When: Sat 12 – Sun 13 Dec 2026

Trafford Park, Greater Manchester

Street foodFood showChef demos

Through the year

Usually in April

Usually in May

Usually in July

Usually in August

Usually in September

  • Visitors at tables on a lawn beside a row of white festival marquees, with brick town buildings and a blue sky behind

    Nantwich Food Festival

    Nantwich, Cheshire · North West England

    Usually first weekend in September (Friday to Sunday) — next dates to be confirmed

  • A wide, tree-lined Main Street in Cockermouth with colourful painted shopfronts under a blue sky

    Taste Cumbria Cockermouth

    Cockermouth, Cumbria · North West England

    Usually last weekend of September — next dates to be confirmed

  • The ornate red-brick and terracotta Edwardian frontage of Victoria Baths in Manchester under a blue sky

    Wing Fest Manchester

    Manchester, Greater Manchester · North West England

    Usually mid-to-late September (Friday to Sunday) — next dates to be confirmed

Usually in November

  • Carlisle's Market Cross column and the pink-rendered Old Town Hall with its clock cupola, on a wide paved square

    Taste Cumbria Carlisle

    Carlisle, Cumbria · North West England

    Usually a weekend in autumn (early November in 2025) — next dates to be confirmed

Usually in December