Food Festivals 2012 Date commencing Date finishing Web address Confirmed date for 2012 season = Unconfirmed date for 2012, showing date for 2011 = January Febuary Love Food Festival, Bristol 12th http://www.lovefoodfestival.com/ Marmalade Festival 14th http://www.marmaladeawards.com/ Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink & Rhubarb 24th 26th http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/ Rye Bay Scallops Week 25th 4th March www.ryebayscallops.co.uk March Feast East, Cambridgeshire 2nd 4th www.oakleighfairs.co.uk Love Food Festival, Bath 4th http://www.lovefoodfestival.com/ The Great British Mustard Bash, Melton Mowbray 11th The Chocolate Festival, Brighton 17th 18th http://www.festivalchocolate.co.uk/index.html Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival 30th 9th April http://www.brightonfoodfestival.com/ April Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink 13th 15th http://ow.ly/8n09b Chester food, drink and lifestyle festival 7th 9th http://www.chesterfoodanddrink.co.uk/ Lancashire Food Festival 14th 15th http://www.lancashirefoodfestival.co.uk/ Gorseinon Food Festival, Swansea 16th http://www.gdt.org.uk/foodfestival2011/home.html Porthleven's 2012 Food Festival 21st http://www.porthlevenfoodfestival.co.uk/ East of England Food Festival, Knebworth 21st 22nd www.oakleighfairs.co.uk London Coffee Festival 27th 29th http://londoncoffeefestival.com/home.aspx Love Food Festival, Dyrham Park 29th http://www.lovefoodfestival.com/ Copyright The Chef Hermes Blog & Chefhermes.com
May Foodies Festival, Hampton Court 5th 7th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Dales Festival of Food 5th 7th http://www.dalesfestivaloffood.org/ Bournemouth Thai Food Festival 5th 7th http://www.tasteofthai.co.uk/page/thaievent.html Malton Food Lovers Festival 19th 20th http://maltonfoodfestival.co.uk/ Taste the Real Jersey 19th 27th http://www.jersey.com/english/eatingout/foodies/pages/jerseyfoodfestival.aspx Christchurch Food and Wine Festival 11th 20th http://www.christchurchfoodfest.co.uk/ Ludlow Spring Festival 12th 13th http://www.springevent.org.uk/ West Wales Food Festival (National Botanical Garden of Wales) 14th http://www.westwalesfoodfestival.com/ Welsh Cheese & Cider Festival, Swansea 14th 15th Loch Fyne Food Fair 19th 20th http://www.lochfyne.com/events/loch-fyne-food-fair Watercress Festival, Alresford, Hampshire 20th http://www.watercressfestival.org/ Riverside Food Festival, Pontadawe, Swansea 21st http://www.arenapontardawe.com/riverside/foodfestival/index.html Small Holder and Garden Festival, Builth Wells 19th 20th http://www.rwas.co.uk/en/garden-festival/ Asparagus Fayr, York 26th 27th http://www.yorkfoodfestival.com/ Foodies Festival, Brighton 25th 27th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Welsh Perry & Cider Festival, Clytha Arms, Abergavenny 27th 30th Falmouth Fish Festival, Falmouth 29th 30th http://www.cornwallfoodanddrink.co.uk/calendar/falmouth-fish-festival/ June Dartington Food Fair 3rd 5th http://www.dartington.org/food-fair Southport Food and Drink Festival 8th 10th http://www.visitsouthport.com/whats-on/southport-food-and-drink-festival-p1500 Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival 15th 17th http://www.garden-events.com/cheltenham/index.php?page=home Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival (Cardiff) 7th 9th www.gwbcf.org.uk/ Pembrokeshire Fish Week (1st week in june TBC) http://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=103,123,177&parent_directory Taste of London 21st 24th http://www.tastefestivals.com/london The Sussex Food Show, Petworth 23rd 24th http://www.oakleighfairs.co.uk/petworth-food Hay-on-Wye Food Festival 25th Llandysul Food Festival 25th http://www.llandysulfood.co.uk/ The Surrey Food Show, Guildford 30th http://www.oakleighfairs.co.uk/loseley-food/ 2
July Hampshire Food Festival 1st 31st http://www.hampshirefare.co.uk/food-festival Foodies Festival, Tatton Park, Cheshire 6th 8th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Taste of Edinburgh 6th 8th http://www.tasteofedinburgh.co.uk/ Dorset Seafood Festival 7th 8th http://www.dorsetseafood.co.uk/ The Cardiff International Food & Drink Festival 8th 10th http://www.cardiff-festival.com/ifd_e.htm Cardigan Bay Seafood Festival, Aberaeron Harbour 8th http://www.aberaeron.info/seafood/ Chilli Fest UK 14th 15th http://www.chillifest.net/ The Royal Welsh Show 18th 21st http://www.rwas.co.uk/en/welsh-show/ Foodies Festival, Bristol 20th 22nd http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Oundle Food Festival 21st http://www.oundlefoodfestival.co.uk/ Essex Festival of Food and Drink 21st 22nd http://exfoodfestival2012.nmgl.co.uk/ Lampeter Food Festival 23rd http://www.lampeterfoodfestival.org.uk/home Big Cheese, Caerphilly 27th 29th http://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/bigcheese/ The Really Wild Festival 29th 30th http://www.reallywildfestival.co.uk/ August Clitheroe Food Festival 4th http://www.clitheroefoodfestival.co.uk/ The Big Onion 6th http://bigonionfestival.weebly.com/ Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival 9th 12th http://www.htcpl.org.uk/foodanddrinkfestival/ Foodies Festival, Edinburgh 10th 12th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Cardigan's River and Food Festival 11th 12th http://www.cardigan-food-festival.co.uk/ Derbyshire Craft & Food Fair, Kedlestone 18th 19th http://www.oakleighfairs.co.uk/kedleston/ The Isle Of Wight Garlic Festival 18th 19th http://www.garlic-festival.co.uk/ Foodies Festival, Battersea Park, LDN 17th 19th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Foodies Festival, Oxford 25th 27th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ Wirral Food Festival 28th 29th http://www.wirralfoodfestival.co.uk/ Dundee Flower and Food Festival 31st 2nd Sept http://www.dundeeflowerandfoodfestival.com/ 3
September Welsh Food Festival, Welshpool 3rd 4th http://www.welshfoodfestival.co.uk/welsh_food_festival/wff_home_en.html East Renfrewshire Food Festival http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2287 Melksham Food & Drink Festival 7th 16th http://melkshamfoodfestival.co.uk/index.html Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival 9th 30th http://www.brightonfoodfestival.com/ Ludlow Food Festival 7th 9th www.foodfestival.co.uk/ St Fagans Food Festival 10th 11th http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/whatson/?event_id=4838 Nantwich Food & Drink Festival 2012 14th 16th http://www.nantwichfoodfestival.co.uk/ Foodies Festival, Bath 14th 16th http://www.foodiesfestival.com/ The Cambridge Food, Garden, and Produce Festival 15th 16th http://www.oakleighfairs.co.uk/foodandgarden/ Abergavenny Food Festival 15th 16th http://www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/index.html Aberystwyth Food and Drink Festival 17th http://www.visitmidwales.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=13&feature=77&venue=1024529 York Food & Drink Festival 21st 30th http://www.yorkfoodfestival.com/ AlnwickFood Festival 21st 23rd http://alnwickfoodfestival.co.uk/ Narberth Food Festival 24th 25th http://www.narberthfoodfestival.com/ Barnes Food Fair 22nd http://www.barnesfoodfair.com/ Mold Food Festival 22nd 23rd http://www.moldfoodfestival.co.uk/ Great British Cheese Festival, Cardiff Castle 22nd 23rd http://www.greatbritishcheesefestival.co.uk/content.asp Cornwall Food & Drink Festival, Truro 23rd 25th http://www.cornwallfoodanddrink.co.uk/calendar/the-8th-cornwall-food-drink-festival/ Real Food Festival, Southbank, LDN 28th 30th http://www.realfoodfestival.co.uk/ Feastival - Wales Alternative Food Festival 30th 1st Oct http://feastival.moonfruit.com/ 4
October Brecon Food Festival 1st Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms Venison Festival 3rd http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/news/article-info/2846/game-on-for-royal-deeside- The Stone Food & Drink Festival 5th 7th http://www.stonefooddrink.org.uk/index.htm?id=index Neath Food Festival 7th 8th http://www.neathfoodfestival.co.uk/ Anglesey Oyster and Welsh Produce Festival 13th 14th http://www.angleseyoysterfestival.com/ Falmouth Oyster Festival 13th 16th http://www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk/ Llangollen Food and Drink Festival 15th 16th http://www.llangollenfoodfestival.com/ Taste Dollgellau 15th 17th http://www.discoverdolgellau.com/en/taste.aspx Peebles Food Festival 21st 23rd http://www.peeblesfoodfestival.com/ Dartmouth Food Festival 21st 23rd http://www.dartmouthfoodfestival.com/ Gwledd Conwy Feast 22nd 23rd http://www.conwyfeast.co.uk/ National Honey Show 25th 27th http://www.honeyshow.co.uk/ Cowbridge Food & Drink Festival 29th 30th http://www.cowbridgefoodanddrink.org/ Newport (Gwent) Food Festival 29th www.newportfoodfestival.co.uk/ November Shetland Food Festival 2nd 11th http://www.shetlandfoodfestival.co.uk/ Hay-on-Wye Winter Food Festival 26th December Abergavenny Food Festival Christmas Fayre 11th http://www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/christmas-fair/ Falmouth Christmas Festival 17th 18th 5