Foodies Festival is a national series of festivals founded in 2005, and now has 13 festivals across the UK.
They’ve finally added Newcastle to their list of tour dates which might go some way to filling the hole that EATNewcastleGateshead leaves — probably the original, ahead of its time, and sadly never returning in that format festival for the city. It’s a 3 day affair in Exhibition Park, so with this sun we’ve been having, hopefully it’ll be a cracker.
All your usual food festival stuff, cooking demos, street food, etc. and joining the list of famous faces at the event is Candice from the GBBO, baking in the Cakes & Desserts Theatre. There’s loads more going on including:
- Healthy Living, talks from the experts on food intolerances, nutrition and such
- Chef’s Theatre, a certain Michelin-starred chef takes the stage, no spoilers yet
- Grow Your Own, demos on growing your own herbs and more at home
- Summer Workshops, workshops all given a food and drink based twist, naturally
- Cooking with Critters, bug eating contest
- Drinks Theatre, this year’s theme being rum, so expect plenty of it
- Street Food Avenue, vendors still to be confirmed, so watch this space closely
- Producers Market, vendors still to be confirmed, so watch this space too
- Kids Cookery School, for the bairns to make “strawberry ladybirds” and plenty more
…and loaaaaads more, so it should be a busy event. Once I know a little more about who’s on, etc. I will update this. Have a look at the official website in the meantime to get more of a flavour of what some of the past events have been like: http://foodiesfestival.com/
What you have to say
Opinions on these events is quite mixed but it’s worth a pop for nowt surely, see some choice reviews from TrustPilot:
“Never thought we’d leave a food festival having eaten no food.”
Joshua Brett
“The whole thing had a depressing craggy island feel about it.”
Emma Stokes, on the Oxford festival
“The best thing there was a clothes shop which really doesn’t bode well.”
abi
“The only vaguely interesting item was a jar of pickled onions and I could buy those at Lidl.”
Sam Aikman, on the VIP goodie bag at Bath
“Never trust an event which advertises using AI!”
Natalie Bell
Win: VIP Tickets for the Newcastle Foodies Festival
The organisers have kindly given me 5 pairs of VIP tickets to giveaway – just fill out the form below.
VIP tickets are worth £38 each and include a glass of fizz, entry to the VIP area with refreshments, snacks, tea and coffee, a tote goody bag, a show guide, and priority entry to all food & drink masterclasses. Not too shabby! Just leave your details, below to enter.
The competition is now closed. But the festival will return for 2027.
