ANNOUNCEMENT! Trader Applications are NOW OPEN for 2025 – Apply Now

SAVE THE DATES FOR OUR 2025 FESTIVAL
- 12-13 APRIL 2025

A weekend of incredible celebrity chef demonstrations, regional food & drink traders & local entertainers was had by all.

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Applications for Bishop Auckland Food Festival 2025 are now open.

The festival will take place on April 12th & 13th. Each year we receive a huge number of applications, please make sure if you are applying you take time to complete the information and ensure that images of your set up are included, links to socials, and company info. We have limited spaces available each year. Applications will close on January 10th and the team will then work through the applications.

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Who appeared at our live cookery theatre stage in 2024

Take a look at our exciting celebrity chefs who made star appearances at the festival. A stella line up, our Saturday guests as Henry Firth & Ian Theasby, the visionary duo of Pioneering Plant Based Food – BOSH TV. TV Chef & Author Marcus Bean whose passion for cooking drove him to win Iron chef UK in 2010. Dan Hunter – Bake Off Finalist 2023 and TV Chef & Author Chris Bavin  joined us as our weekend cookery theatre host.

Our Sunday line-up was TV presenter, author, food writer and award-winning restaurateur, Matt Tebbutt. Chef, author and entrepreneur, Cyrus Todiwala and food content creator, bestselling author and presenter, Meliz Berg.

Live music and performances from some of the region’s finest

Take a look at our amazing line up who joined us at the festival. Dancing ‘grannies’, performing chefs, steel bands, and theatre acts were among the free family acts performing at the festival.

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