York’s most appetising festival has announced that its returning for 2024 – and has teased the tasty offerings to come.
The York Food and Drink Festival is back from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 September.
The free-to-enter festival on Parliament Street attracts around 60,000 to 100,000 people every year, and will once again feature delicious delicacies, exciting workshops, top local chefs, and family fun.
The highlights for the festival include:
- Retail market – featuring cheese, charcuterie, smoked goods, local distilleries, pies, jams, confectionary, a special stand featuring Burundian produce to celebrate York’s twin town Dijon, and much more.
- Bars, street food, and live music – there will be two live music venues with proceeds going to St Leonard’s Hospice, bars featuring York Gin and Brew York, and local wine and cider from Pairings, over 40 street food vendors, and a local CAMRA beer festival.
- Community engagement – a program with 1000 places in hands-on cookery workshops for York primary schools, a community stand, and local best home cook competition.
- Hands-on opportunities for all – try your hand at making bread and pasta, smoking your own food, making butter, vegan dips, and ice cream.
- Demonstrations at St. Crux – for the first time, the demonstration stage will be at St. Crux hall, which will include pop-up restaurants, tutored wine sessions and an extensive line-up of local chefs.
- Additional trail with limitless capacity – due to the high demand and limited capacity of the festival’s taste trail, for 2024 there will be an additional 10-stop, double-sample tour at pop-up stops to accommodate the extra demand.
The full festival program will be released in early August, detailing all events, activities, and participating vendors.
To stay updated with the festival and the exciting line-up, visit the York Food Festival website.