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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, with over 150 Food and Drink Exhibitors on show. Headline chefs from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 feature with 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.

Wannabe a Sausage Judge?

Join us on Sunday 1st 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.

Adult Cooking Classes brought to you by Harlech Foodservices

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 Harlech Fine food s in the Chef’s Cuisine Cooking School at this year’s festival.

BBC Star Chris Bavin joins the cast

Chris Bavin is so full of character he was born to be on TV. He is currently co-presenting his fourth series of BBC1’s hugely successful series Eat Well For Less? With Gregg Wallace.
In addition to Eat Well for Less, Chris has presented Tomorrow’s Food with Dara O’Brian, The Truth about Meat and he is co-presenter of BBC1’s returning series Food:Truth or Scare with Gloria Hunniford.

BBQ Cook-a-long returns for 2018

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.

278 days to go

2019 Tickets will be availble from November 2018

150 artisan food & drink exhibitors

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Experience the festival

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