A firm favourite in the foodie calendar, COWBRIDGE FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL Festival is back for 2025 with a whole host of tasty treats to tempt festival goers across the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend (Sun 25th – Mon 26th May).
As always, there is guaranteed to be something to suit all diets, ages and interests – moreish meats, vegan varieties, curries, cheeses, chutneys; scrumptious ciders, great gins, sweet treats and so much more.
Alongside the regular favourites that festival goers love to see, we’re being promised plenty of new and exciting additions for 2025, including Cwtch and Crumb with their mouthwatering brownies and blondies and a tantalising taste of Egypt courtesy of the Three Gizas and their fresh and flavoursome signature Koshari bowls.
The Old Hall Gardens will be buzzing with lots of family-friendly activities to enjoy and the ever-popular food demos will also be back to add extra entertainment; this year in the Town Hall on High Street and taking place on the hour from 11am-3pm each day.
A huge hit last year, the Vale Food Trail is once again set to launch at the festival, offering a whole programme of fun family activities hosted by Food Vale – the local food partnership for the Vale of Glamorgan – bringing even more to the bustling Old Hall Gardens site.
The beautiful Bear Hotel is also back on board, opening its doors to even more exhibitors in the hotel’s stunning St Quentin’s Suite; a mini-festival within the festival!
In a perfect fit, Hensol Castle Distillery return to sponsor the festival, adding a tonic with some of the distillery’s award-winning gins and spicing things up with the increasingly in demand Hensol Castle Spiced Rum available to try and buy.
As well as the Park and Ride bus service from Forage Farm, Cowbridge Comprehensive School will this year offer a Park and Walk for those happy to enjoy a lovely leisurely short stroll into town.
Speaking ahead of this year’s event, Festival Manager Tracy James-Lieberman told us…..
“We’re gearing up for another great one this year, again combining our old favourites that festival goers love to come and see with lots of new faces and added entertainment.
As well as the main Arthur John site, with the Old Hall Gardens, food demos at the Town Hall and even more exhibitors at The Bear Hotel, we’re now across four sites which is fantastic and adding more and more each year.
There’ll be such a variety of amazing produce available to sample, buy and just generally enjoy and so many other things going on to make it the perfect way to spend the Bank Holiday; we look forward to welcoming everyone!”
The award winning Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival, sees the town at its most vibrant. It’s a weekend of culinary excellence and all round family entertainment. It’s been running since 2004 when it was set up as part of the Cowbridge Charter Trust’s 750 year celebrations, and boy has it flourished since then.
It’s grown from a one day event with 40 exhibitors and 4,000 visitors to a whole weekend attracting 150 applications for the 100+ exhibition stands and well over 10,000 visitors to the town. Along the way it’s picked up its fair share of awards, including the National Tourism Awards Wales: Best Community.
If you’ve never been through or to Cowbridge then maybe the festival is a great place to start. The bustling market town is right at the heart of the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan surrounded by stunning countryside and dramatic coastline. Just a short drive from Cardiff, it is a real contrast to the city with a variety of fantastic independent shops along the historic high street and in the delightful surrounding lanes. You can get everything from tasty and local foodie treats, the best in fashion, gifts and design, and of course, plenty of place to eat.
The COWBRIDGE FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVAL is definitely a date for your foodie diary. It runs over the Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday 25th, from 9:30am to 6pm and Monday 26th May between 9:30am and 5pm. For more details, go here – FESTIVAL.
Tickets:
- Day pass – £5
- Weekend pass – £8
- Children under 11 are free.
Tickets are available online in advance or on the day at the festival’s Arthur John Car Park site. you can book them HERE. Incidentally, there’s FREE park and ride from Forage Farm and Cowbridge Comprehensive School.
