UK Food Festivals

I was going to highlight these events in my next weekly roundup but as one of these festivals is coming up soon – I wanted to alert our UK Members who may wish to make plans to attend. Delicious has an exhaustive list of food festivals that you can check out as well organized by region including Scotland and Ireland.

First, the National Geographic Traveller Food Festival will be held 19-20 July 2025 at the Business Design Centre Ltd, 52 Upper St, London.

I have highlighted the events that involve cookbook authors on our calendar and below. See details for other events regarding food/wine tasting, photography and more.

• Jul 19 – Clodagh McKenna: Fresh from the Sea
• Jul 19 – Yotam Ottolenghi: A Flair for Flavour
• Jul 19 – Asma Khan: Darjeeling Express
• Jul 19 – Dina Macki: A Taste of Oman
• Jul 20 – José Pizarro: The Spanish Pantry
• Jul 20 – Andi Oliver: An Antiguan Brunch
• Jul 20 – Jeremy Pang: Hong Kong Kitchen
• Jul 20 – Karan Gokani: Flavours of Southern India

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• 19-20 July, 2025 – Knebworth House, Herts – buy tickets
  • Radhika Howarth – details
  • Chef Eva Humphries – details
  • Ian Carter from School of Wok – details
  • Tara Acton – details
  • Chef John Alberti – details
• 26-27 July, 2025 – Weston Park – details
  • Chef John Alberti – details
  • Fateha Khanom – details
  • Marni Xuto – details

August – September – See the GBFF website for those dates/events.

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The Edinburgh International Book Festival is scheduled 9-14 August, 2025 and returns to the Edinburgh Futures Institute located at The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.

The 2025 Festival will see the return of some of 2024’s most popular programme themes, including How to Live a Meaningful Life, guiding audiences new and deeper ways of creating connection, resilience and hope, amongst the chaos, and the expanded Table Talks series, with top chefs and food writers taking to the stage – or rather around the table – in intimate gatherings with audiences to enjoy delicious food and make memories together. Again, I have set out these events below and on our Calendar.

• Aug 3 – Lunch with Jessica Elliott Dennison
• Aug 10 – Something sweet with Benjamina Ebuehi
• Aug 12 – Table talk with Diana Henry
• Aug 12 – Table talk with Kenji Morimoto – two events
• Aug 14 – Middle Eastern cooking – Sabrina Ghayour
• Aug 14 – Best root forward – Alissa Timoshkina
• Aug 16 – Have lunch with Rosie Kellett
• Aug 17 – Lunch with Sami Tamimi
• Aug 20 – Table talk with Ixta Belfrage
• Aug 20 – Dinner for one – Michèle Roberts
• Aug 20 – The Unserious Wine Club: A Table Talk with Hannah Crosbie
• Aug 23 – Have lunch with José Pizarro
• Aug 24 – Have lunch with Julie Lin

Other UK events that have been updated on our calendar include:

• Honey & Co. – London
• Topping and Company
• Helen Goh – Baking and the Meaning of Life (UK/AU – more to come)
• Skye McAlpine – The Christmas Companion
• Ixta Belfrage – FUSÃO – Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil