Nantwich Food Festival.

Nantwich Food Festival.
Live Music • Entertainment • Street Food • 100’s of Exhibitors • Cooking Demonstrations • Children’s Activities

The Nantwich Food Festival

Nantwich Food Festival.

Returning for 2025

Friday 29th August | 11am – 8pm
Saturday 30th August | 9am – 7pm
Sunday 31st August | 10am – 5pm

It’s back in 2025, the much-loved Nantwich Food Festival. For three full days we will transform our picturesque town centre into a food lovers’ paradise. Located across three sites, we’re bringing marquees filled with top quality food and drink from producers all across Cheshire, Great Britain and beyond. Be sure to follow us on our social media channels for updates and announcements.

 Venues  

Love Lane
Food Theatre | Exhibitors | Music Stage | Children’s Marquee | Cook Along Marquee | Street Food

Town Centre
Entertainment | Local Businesses | Street Food

Bowling Green
Exhibitors | Music Stage | Street Food

 Cookalong  

Join our Cookalong sessions where you can learn from the professionals! From lobster salad to risotto, coffee tasting to cocktail making, there’s something for everyone. Book your place now 

 Food Festival Map  

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Food Festival Map

PDF version of map available here

 New for 2024  

Walking Tours – Find out about the food history of Nantwich with a guided walking tour starting at the Nantwich Museum and including food and drink tastings

Led by festival volunteers and an expert from the museum you will get a potted history of Nantwich’s ancient links to the cheese and salt-making industries and its importance as a market town alongside various snippets of town heritage.

The tour will include visits to Nantwich Museum on Pillory Street, The Cheese Shop on Hospital Street, Nantwich Market on Market Street and The Black Lion on Welsh Row.  Book now on the events page

Nantwich Food Festival.

 2024 Featured Chefs  

Nantwich Food Festival.

 Parking  

Fun for all the family

As one of the UK’s largest free to enter food festivals, our 3-day event brings together the best of talent and produce. Local heroes and celebrity Chefs from across the county offer unmissable live cooking demonstrations, and our 2 live music stages deliver an eclectic line-up ensuring there’s something for everyone.

Parking is available at the following locations
Nantwich Town FC – Waterlode, Nantwich CW5 5BS
Barony Park – Barony Road, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5QY
Locked at 10PM – No overnight Parking.
Brine Leas Academy – Audlem Rd, Nantwich CW5 7DY

Disabled Parking
Dysart Buildings Car Park – Market St, Nantwich, CW55DG Barony Park – Barony Road, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5QY

 2024 Sponsors  

Nantwich Town Council | Boughey Distribution| Mornflake Oats | Applewood Independent | Hall Smith Whittingham | Reaseheath College | The White Lion, Weston | Whitegates | Snugburys | Nantwich Hearing Centre | The Boulton Group | Rhino Safety | Cheshire East Council | Direct Access | Osprey EV Charging | Alpha Omega Securities | South Cheshire Chambers | TR Creative | The Food Safety Company | Morrisons | Nantwich Elim Church | The Feed | One Sip at a time | Rotary | South Cheshire College – South & West

Park and Ride
Friday 12:00 – 18:00
Saturday 10:00 – 18:00
Sunday 10:00 – 17:00
Last bus is 15 minutes before parking closes

 Competitions  

Mr Dabber Town Trail

The Mr Dabber Town Trail
Mr Dabber town trail will run over the festival weekend. Trail leaflets can be collected from the kid’s marquee in love lane or the info point in town.

Lemon Drizzle Cake Competition
This year’s bake is a Lemon drizzle cake. Entry is via email – Link.
Limited to 12 entries.
Prizes to 3rd place – kindly donated by Marks and Spencer, Nantwich
Judges – Cherish Finden plus 2 others

Nantwich Town Businesses Window Competition

Window Display Competition
Food Festival Window Display Competition from 16th August

People’s choice!
Choose your favourite window and win one of 3 fantastic prizes:

£50 to spend in A.T. Welch deli
£50 to spend at the Cheese Shop Nantwich
£50 to spend in Bizzybods children’s shop

This year we’re giving a People’s prize to the best window display voted for by YOU.

Choose your favourite window display and post your entry in the postbox at the Cheese Shop. Don’t forget your email or phone number if you want to win one of our lovely prizes.

Participating Shops
A.T. Welch | Bizzy Bods | Cheese Shop |
Edencroft Wines and Spirits | KBA Financial
| Nantwich Book Shop and Coffee Lounge |
Webb House Furnishers | Wrights Letting |
Nettle Home and Garden | AbleWorld

 2024 Featured Chefs  

Chris Bavin started his career in fresh produce, establishing ‘The Naked Grocer’, one of the pioneering zero packaging, plastic-free retail businesses. Since 2013, he has been a presenter on BBC’s Eat Well For Less for eight series, along with hosting other shows like Tomorrow’s Food, The Truth About Meat, and Food: Truth or Scare. Chris also appeared as a judge and fruit & veg expert on Best Home Cook, while authoring cookbooks such as ‘Good Food Sorted’ in 2019 and the popular ‘Fakeaway’ more recently.
Chris Bavin
Chris Bavin

Nantwich Food Festival.

Yorkshire born and bred, Nigel has worked at some of the UK’s biggest and busiest hotels and spent time at the highly acclaimed French cookery school Ecole Le Notre. 
Nigel Brown
Nigel Brown
Jill has over 30 years’ experience as a home economist and food stylist, working with some of the biggest names in the food industry including Hovis, Aldi and The Vegetarian Society. Well known for her fresh approach and creative flair when it comes to food, she has worked with some of TV’s biggest names. Always one to keep up with the latest food trends, Jill will be demonstrating how we can get maximum use out of our air fryers.
Jill Weatherburn
Neil Aitken from the Chester Grosvenor Hotel – A Scottish chef who has worked at the Chester Grosvenor hotel for 7 years, currently sous chef at the fine dining restaurant Arkle within the hotel. I have previously worked in many Michelin stars restaurants both in Scotland and England.
Neil Aitken
Chef Giuseppe Trovato’s career began in the late 1990’s and he has since worked all over the world. Himself and his family now call Nantwich home and they have been a part of the Romazzino family for over 3 years.
Giuseppe Trovato
Giuseppe Trovato
Babna, the driving force behind Manchester’s renowned Babna’s Patisserie, started her delectable journey in 2019. Her passion for baking transcends borders, drawing inspiration from global flavors. Her patisserie is known for unique and innovative desserts. Babna’s culinary expertise has earned recognition at esteemed dessert competitions, where she supports local businesses. With a love for French desserts, she immerses herself in the vibrant pastry culture of France, gaining insights from top chefs in Paris. Her dream is to demystify French desserts and make them accessible to home-bakers, championing the mantra “French desserts made easy!”
Babna’s Patisserie
Cherish Finden, a renowned pastry chef, gained fame as a judge on Bake Off: The Professionals. With over 20 years of experience, she combines culinary artistry with patisserie, pushing the boundaries of dessert creation. Among her numerous accolades, she received the esteemed Top London Afternoon Tea Award in 2010 and was named Pastry Chef of the Year by the Craft Guild of Chefs in 2012. Cherish also proudly holds the Macallan Lifetime Achievement award. Formerly the Executive Pastry Chef at London’s Pan Pacific Hotel, she recently opened her own patisserie, SHIOK!
Cherish Finden
Cherish Finden
Spyros grew up in Athens and soon ignited his passion for cooking from an early age. He has worked in some of the best Greek restaurants across the globe and built up a wealth of experience and skills in doing so. He is now Head Chef at St Martha Restaurant right here in Nantwich.
Spyros Vrakas
Spyros Vrakas
The award-winning chef has put the Grade II-listed Black Lion in Nantwich on the map for five-star food after introducing dishes inspired by his time working at the famous Dorchester Hotel in London.
Darren Snell
Darren Snell
Bhupinder is a teacher by profession and uses food as medium for teaching students about aspects of her Indian culture and heritage. She has raised over £100,000 for charities by hosting BOLLYWOOD themed events and running a regular  CURRY CLUB for which she cooks up vegan, vegetarian & meat options to be enjoyed in your own home. She offers cookery lessons featuring recipes from her book, “A TASTE OF THE PUNJAB” in her semi professional kitchen in Chester or in your own kitchen within the locality.
Bhupinder Virdee-Lace

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