1 FREE FOR ALL
Dartmouth Food Festival has everything you’d want - an exciting mix of local artisanal food and drink stalls, chef demonstrations, wine seminars, product tastings, book talks and lively food debates. And best of all, most of it is free.
The beautiful Royal Avenue Gardens are at the heart of the festival, and home to street food vendors offering everything from dim sum and bao buns to vegan mac’n’cheese and gut healthy bowl food. Over 80 additional stalls then spill out down the picturesque Embankment and up into the Old Market Square. Here you’ll find an abundance of locally-produced, high quality ingredients including award-winning cheeses, hand-made preserves, delicious breads, amazing wild game and artisan coffee.
The festival, from October 20-22, welcomes many special guests, from internationally renowned chefs to celebrated writers and critics. This year the line-up includes Dartmouth restaurateur and festival advocate Mitch Tonks (pictured), Matt Tebbutt, Mark Hix and Jane Baxter alongside local chefs.
The Food Matters programme will cover topics such as regenerative farming, eating for the planet and how aquaculture may help solve our food supply issues. The Festival is keen to promote sustainability and reduce food waste and on the Monday following the festival, a few local chefs and volunteers will produce a fabulous array of dishes using all the leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away. This is a free lunch and open to anyone who wants.
