The last countdown is on to the Bolton Food and Drink Festival – Bolton Council

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With 24 hours to go till the UK’s largest Food and Drink Festival, check out the jam-packed itinerary and don’t miss out on a feast of flavours, family-fun and reside music.

Bolton food and drink festival 2025Taking place from Friday 22 to Monday 25 August, the FREE four-day extravaganza will have a good time its milestone twentieth 12 months, placing the highlight in town centre as a vibrant hub of world delicacies, reside leisure and actions for the entire household. 

Celebrity TV chef, James Martin, will headline the ultimate day of the competition on Monday 25 August and take to the stage for the 15th 12 months serving up three high-energy reside cookery demos at 11am, 1pm and 3pm – sharing a few of his favorite dishes, ideas, and trademark allure with followers. 

Culinary legend and Michelin-starred chef, Marco Pierre White, will make his debut look on the competition headlining Saturday 23 August and will likely be internet hosting two reside cookery demos at 11am and 1pm, adopted by a Q&A session and Ploughman’s lunch at 3pm.

Saturday will see Helen McGinn, drinks knowledgeable and worldwide wine decide, run a wine and cheese tasting extravaganza together with a wine tasting session with afternoon tea.

Following its success final 12 months, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is returning on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August with restricted tickets left for the Sunday present.

Alongside celeb chef demos, Bolton’s Victoria Square turns into an open-air kitchen the place among the area’s finest cooks – together with Michael Caines, Kwoklyn Wan, Gill Howard, Aiden Byrne, The Baking Nanna, Christoph Hesse, Nicolas Urrutia and extra, will showcase their culinary skills. No tickets are wanted: festival-goers can merely flip up, sit and benefit from the motion.

This 12 months’s demos may even welcome particular visitors from Bolton’s twin cities of Le Mans (France) and Paderborn (Germany) with Celebrated cooks Nicolas Urrutia and Christoph Hesse.

Alongside the flavours is a full menu of household enjoyable – virtually all of it for FREE.

The Festival Garden provides a leafy escape within the coronary heart of the city little ones can get pleasure from fruity snack making, s’mores toasting, clay boggart crafting, messy play and even a spot of worm looking – mud kitchen included.

Inside the Octagon Theatre, the Family Festival returns for a special occasion of free leisure. Expect reside theatre, storytelling, arts and crafts and the ever-popular bubble-fuelled household disco. Tickets are free however reserving is really helpful.

Over in Elizabeth Park, from 11am-5pm every day, households can discover a large sandpit, get pleasure from music and storytelling and get artistic with video games and crafts from Bolton’s Library and Museum – be sure to take the prospect to go to the Bolton Food Hall over the street as effectively.

Young cooks aged 10+ can e book on to ‘Cook & Dine’ classes on the Albert Halls – the place they are going to observe a reside demo, put together their very own dish, get pleasure from it collectively and take dwelling a drink and a meals voucher to spend on the competition.

The competition is bringing collectively greater than 180 merchants to the city centre – serving every little thing from mouthwatering international meals to candy treats and vegan delights – there are additionally loads of stalls offering presents and presents for the entire household.

This 12 months merchants embrace Pudding & Pie who’ve been attending since 2011, Northwest Whippy who’ve constructed up a buyer base from the competition, and Churtopia Churros who consider it’s “the best organised festival in the country!”

Bolton Council Leader, Cllr Nick Peel, mentioned:

“Each 12 months Bolton Food and Drink Festival takes over the city on August Bank Holiday weekend with a incredible vary of celeb and regional chef demos, particular occasions, spectacular merchants providing unimaginable meals, reside music and free household enjoyable.

“This 12 months we have a good time 20 years of the competition and over these years the occasion has turn into award-winning which is a incredible achievement.

“I’m looking forward to seeing everybody enjoying themselves, businesses thriving and showing what a great visitor destination Bolton is for all.”

More info, together with tickets, could be discovered on the web site: boltonfoodanddrinkfestival.com

All schedules are topic to alter.


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