Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival Market
Location: New Road/Jubilee Street/Jubilee Square
Date: Sat 13th - Sun 14th September
Open: Sat/Sun 10-6pm
The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival Market is the highlight of the Food Festival month of September. It has grown and grown over the last six years, 2007 attracted 45,000 food lovers to New Road in two days. Not only a great attraction for the public, also top restaurants and hotels view this as a way of working with local producers and meeting the public tempting them with signature dishes. This year is plastic bag free and producers are encouraged to serve on eco friendly recycled containers and packaging.
This amazing market, one of the biggest ever held in the south, will be held in the beautifully pedestrianised New Road and Jubilee Street, with a free to enter Drink Festival planned in Jubilee Square on Sat 13th and Sun 14th Sept 10-6pm.
What is the ‘Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival' all about? The Directors of the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival share the ethos to support the local economy, the small local producers and farmers and celebrate the wonderful food capital Brighton & Hove has become. Outside of London, we view Brighton & Hove as the ‘foody capital of the south'. Since the Directors took over the festival a few years ago, the emphasis shifted to encourage local restaurants, cafes, hotels and shops to buy and serve local produce. We are very proud of the growing success. This year we are adding sustainability to our ethos.
Buying from a farmers market is one of the easiest and fun ways to make a difference to the environment. Not only do you have fun tasting before you buy, you also meet and ask questions with the actual people who are part of the process that picked the fruit and veg, who made the cheese or jams, or brewed the beers and wines.
The Festival Market brings together over 100 stalls of the finest producers in Sussex and the best restaurants serving local produce. Great Taste Award winning companies like Bookham Fine Foods, with their Twynham Grange cheese, Stratta with the beautifully packages fruit vinegars, Thrilli Foods range of chilli products, the classy puddings and sauces of The Relish & Spice Company, the vegetables picked on the morning of the event, still covered in mud from the all female farmers at Laines Organic Farm. Bring your own bags and heed the warning that some of the local produce is hard to resist such as the organic chocolate from Cocoa Loco, the cakes from Crumbs, breads from leading Real Patiserie, exotic beers from Fallen Angel and wines from the Seddlescome vineyard.
New Road is just about the best location for a food festival, paved in granite, electric units sunk into the middle of the road, all in the shadow of the magnificent Royal Pavilion. This year a live food show will accompany the successful children's events in the Pavilion Gardens next to the market.
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