Now in it’s 6th year, Beccles Food and Drink Festival is back in 2020 with a feast of culinary delights. The free Festival features over 80 food and drink stalls, many of them local artisan producers, as well as those from further afield in East Anglia. Based in the centre of the vibrant market town, the Festival will include cookery demonstrations and talks, world street food, musicians and children’s entertainment. A free Park & Ride shuttle service will run throughout the day from Beccles Quay, where additional parking will be available. Building on the successful formula of previous years, the Festival is set to repeat Fringe events in the local area a week either side of the main Festival day.
Updates to the Festival will be posted on the Festival website and Facebook at regular intervals, so keep checking back to keep abreast of the latest developments.
http://becclesfoodfestival.co.uk
This year the Festival is moving back to a location we have not used for many years, Hungate Church. This will be the new home of the Cookery Theatre and will also provide some additional seating and indoor stalls will be in the church.
For those who may not have visited this location we hope you have the opportunity to visit and watch and taste some great local produce.
Full Steam Ahead
The organising committee are now working tirelessly preparing for the 2020 Festival.
There are a number of exciting changes coming your way this year plus of course many of the “old” favorites.
Stallholders have been contacted and places are filling up quickly with a deadline of 31 January to have all of the paperwork sent in.
This year there will be a number of new producers on show so watch this space for more information.
See you on Saturday 23rd May 2020.
The Beccles Food & Drink Festival Organising Committee.
Programme Competition
Again this year there will be a competition with some wonderful prizes. Entry forms can be found in the Festival Programme, which will be available in April, and this year the entry box will be located in Hungate Church.
Good Luck!
Battle of the Beccles Scones
This year we will be looking to find the best Scone in Beccles!.
Local cafes will be providing scones to be tasted by the discerning Festival attendees and the winner will be awarded with a Trophy.
More details will be outlined in the Festival Programme so have your taste buds ready!
Festival Programme
Work is beginning on the 2020 programme and it should be available in locations in and around Beccles from April.
After the success of last year’s Fringe Events we shall once again be promoting events within a 15 mile radius of Beccles as part of our Fringe.
Anyone interested in taking part please contact admin@becclesfoodfestival.co.uk
Attended the 2019 Beccles Food & Drink Festival
167 Catering Support Regiment
Ailsa’s Country Cream Fudge
Ampersand Brew Co
Bake Shack
Balkan Pottery
Barkers of Suffolk
Beccles Twinning Association
Blackbird Cottage Fine Foods
Burch & Suffolk Preserves
Cakes to Celebrate
Carol’s Cakes & Bakes
Carr Farm Geese
Chet & Waveney Vineyard
Clinks Care Farm
Cocoa May
Currylicious
DJ Wines Ltd
Dominic’s Photography
Dr Olive
E A Mayhew & Sons
East Norfolk Trading
ES Burroughs & Son
Fen Farm Dairy
Flint Vineyard
G&D3 Catering
Graze at The White Horse
Harleston Cider
Harris & James
Harrisons Chocolatiers
Hay Hay
Help for Heroes Charity
Henstead Exotic Gardens
Hog & Ale
Kenton Hall Longhorn Beef
Kim’s Norfolk Kitchen
Leanne’s Fudge Bar
Lickety Ice
Maisebrooke Farm
Marsh Pig
Mayflower Arts & Crafts
McCarthy’s Country Store
Mr Bees
Nanna Lee’s Pantry
Nortons Dairy
Parravani’s Ice Cream
Peachey’s Preserves
Pepperells Meats Ltd
Pimento
Riverford Organic Farmers
Scarlett & Mustard
Season’s Bounty
Smally’s Biltong
St Peter’s Brewery
Stokes Sauces
Suffolk Coffee Pod
Suffolk Smokehouse
Tabboule Tal
The Bon Bakery
The Fresh Sauce Co
The Galley Cookshop
The May Centre
The Norfolk Truffle Co
The Penny Bun Bakehouse
The Souvlaki Shack
The Suffolk Distillery
The Suffolk Pate Company
The Tiny Tipple Company
The Wrap Bar
Truly Traceable Venison & Game
Valley Farm Vineyards
Waveney Valley Smokehouse
Winbirri Vineyards
Yare Valley Oils
Yum Yum Tree Fudge
How to get to the Festival!
Planning to visit the Festival?
With good bus and rail links, and hubs within a 5 minute walk of the town centre, we recommend arriving by public transport. A FREE Park & Ride service will operate on Festival day from Beccles Quay Car Park (NR34 9BH). Follow the Festival Car Park signs on the day.
Key locations in the town on the Day
Marked on the map below are the locations of the Park & Ride and Stallholders Car Park. Plus the major locations of the festival itself with stalls in the Hungate and St Michael’s Churches and around New Market and Sheepgate in the centre of town.
Cookery Theatre Schedule 2019
The Cookery Theatre, in it’s new home at Hungate Church, will have it’s own hall to display cookery demonstrations and talks. And remember this years “Beccles Best Scone” competition will also be judged, by the public, in this venue, time to be confirmed.
Good Luck to all that enter!
Gallery of images from 2019
Photo credits: Dominic Parkes
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