Food FeastivalsThe UK food festival diary

Food festivals in Scotland

19 festivals in our diary, 10 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 row of brightly painted houses along Portree harbour on the Isle of Skye, with boats in the bay and wooded hillside above
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0

Coming up

Arran Festival of Food & Drink

When: Fri 23 Oct – Mon 2 Nov 2026 In 18 days

Isle of Arran (various venues), North Ayrshire

Local producersFood & drinkFamily

Taste of Christmas

When: Sun 8 Nov 2026 In 34 days

Inverurie, Aberdeenshire

ChristmasChef demosLocal producers

Edinburgh Foodies Festival

When: Fri 6 – Sun 8 Aug 2027

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh

Street foodChef demosLocal producers

Glasgow Foodies Festival

When: Fri 13 – Sun 15 Aug 2027

Glasgow (Giffnock), East Renfrewshire

Street foodChef demosLocal producers

SeaFest

When: Sat 11 Sep 2027

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire

SeafoodChef demosLocal producers Free entry

Stranraer Oyster Festival

When: Fri 17 – Sun 19 Sep 2027

Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway

SeafoodChef demosLocal producers

Through the year

Usually in April

Usually in May

Usually in June

  • Meatopia Glasgow

    Glasgow, Glasgow City · Scotland

    Usually June — next dates to be confirmed

Usually in July

  • Glasgow Vegan Summer Festival

    Glasgow, Glasgow City · Scotland

    Usually A Saturday or Sunday in mid-July — no future dates yet

  • A colourful painted spiegeltent among trees in George Square Gardens, with people sitting on the grass outside

    Edinburgh Folk & Food Festival

    Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh · Scotland

    Usually Ten days from late July, just before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — next dates to be confirmed

Usually in August

Usually in September

  • Boats and harbourside buildings reflected in the still water of Peterhead harbour

    SeaFest

    Peterhead, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

    Usually A Saturday in mid-September; recent editions have been every other year (2025, 2027) — no future dates yet

  • A wooden sailing boat and yachts moored in Stranraer Marina in low winter sunlight

    Stranraer Oyster Festival

    Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland

    Fri 17 – Sun 19 Sep 2027

  • Kirkwall's harbour front with stone buildings and moored boats under a blue sky

    Orkney Food & Drink Festival

    Kirkwall, Orkney · Scotland

    Sat 18 – Sun 19 Sep 2027

  • A Victorian stone drinking fountain in the middle of Huntly's town square, surrounded by granite buildings under a blue sky

    Huntly Hairst

    Huntly, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

    Usually First weekend in September, with the main market day on the Saturday — next dates to be confirmed

  • A jetty and the round Drumkinnon Tower on the shore of Loch Lomond at Balloch

    Loch Lomond Food & Drink Festival

    Balloch, West Dunbartonshire · Scotland

    Usually September — next dates to be confirmed

  • Scottish Wild Food Festival

    Balfron, Stirlingshire · Scotland

    Usually September — next dates to be confirmed

  • Fishing boats in Arbroath harbour with the white Signal Tower and harbourside buildings behind

    SmokieFest

    Arbroath, Angus · Scotland

    Usually September — next dates to be confirmed

Usually in October

Usually in November

  • Taste of Christmas

    Inverurie, Aberdeenshire · Scotland

    Usually A Sunday in early-to-mid November — no future dates yet