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Food Festival brings out the cook in all of us.

The Chester Food Drink & Lifestyle Festival, sponsored by Taste Cheshire, took place over Easter at Chester Racecourse for the 18th year and this year saw more people cooking and being involved in cooking than ever before.

So much to see & do!

Our festival is the largest of its type held anywhere in the UK at Easter, with over 150 Food and Drink Exhibitors on show. Headline chefs from 2018 were Paul Rankin, Chris Bavin and Jun Tanaka as well as the best chefs from around the region over 3 days of free cooking demonstrations on the stage. With free cooking classes for Adults and Children and BBQ Classes as well, everyone in the family can have four hours of foodie fun for less than £20

Adult Cooking Classes brought to you by Taste Cheshire

Are your weekday meals lacking the flavour of a meal out? Or are you missing that opportunity to show off some of your knife skills? Well then come and join us at the Adult Cooking Classes brought to you by Taste Cheshire
in the Chef’s Cuisine Cooking School at this year’s festival.

BBQ Cook-a-long returns for 2019

Make sure you stop by the BBQ Demo Area brought to you by Harthill Cookery School and put your name down for one of these free sessions. It’s just fabulous, learn how to do it, master the art and then eat what you make. Enjoy.

Wannabe a Sausage Judge?

Join us on Sunday 21st April at 11.00am in the Demo Theatre and if you are one of the first 40 people to attend you can come and taste and judge the 6 finalists in this years search to find the NoWFOOD Centre Sausage of the Festival. There will be 3 plain sausages and 3 flavoured sausages to judge with Chairman of judges Steve Vaughan in attendance to tell you how to make a great sausage.

Enjoy the BarLounge VIP experience

We are happy to announce that Bar Lounge will be returning to the festival this year hosting our VIP Experience. After the success of the Bar Lounge Secret Garden last year we can't wait to see what theme they have in-store for us this year! This area, which is covered; has seating for up to 200 people, will feature live music during the day and is hosted for by Bar Lounge a 6 time winner of Best Bar in Chester.

244 days to go

2019 Tickets will be availble - November 2018

150 artisan food & drink exhibitors

CamperFest is filling fast - book now!

Experience the festival

Watch the video to see why our festival makes Easter in Chester special.