St Albans: Foodies Festival 2025 - Oaklands College

Foodies Festivals 2025

Available to 1 June 2025

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What else is on at Foodies Festivals 2025?

Enjoy a family day out in Hertfordshire when you get festival tickets for the St Albans Foodies Festival 2025 

Visit Foodies Festival St Albans for 2025 for the nation's biggest celebration of top chefs, tasty food, delicious drinks and live music.

One of the very best days out for St Albans foodies, watch MasterChef Champions, as well as Michelin-starred and top local chefs cooking their delicious recipes, as they share their best baking hints and tips, before heading for some tasty street food and enjoying live music from Example, Symphonic Ibiza and Blue!

If you're looking for things to do in St Albans this spring, head to Oaklands College in St Albans for the Foodies Festival, one of the best days out in Hertfordshire that the whole family will love! 

What's On at St Albans Foodies Festival 2025?

  • Live Music Stage: Enjoy iconic live music, with iconic artists providing the sounds to accompany your epic weekend. 
  • Chefs Theatre: Watch MasterChef Champions, Michelin-starred and top local chefs cooking their signature summer recipes. 
  • Cake & Bake Theatre: Learn how to make show-stopping cakes with expert bakers, including Great British Bake Off stars.
  • Drinks Theatre: Sample an array of new wines, champagnes and cocktails. 
  • Kids' Cookery: Let your young chefs join in on the fun as they cook up some recipes of their own! 
  • Barbecue Skills: Join the flaming hot BBQ action at the incredible Fire Pit station. 
  • Nigel Brown Cook School: Learn from the culinary legend himself! Additional fees may apply. 
  • Silent Disco: Sessions to suit all, from old school bangers to new chart hits. Additional fees may apply. 
  • Artisan Market: Enjoy a huge selection of tasty treats from the market on your day out.
  • Fairground: Enjoy a range of family-friendly fairground adventures, fun for all ages!
  • Street Food: Try tasty foods of all flavours from around the world at the pop-up vendors.  
  • Chili-eating competitions: Challenge chili-eating world champion, Shahina Waseem in a red hot contest! 

Music Line-Up at St Albans Foodies Festival 2025: 

  • Symphonic Ibiza (Friday 30th May)
  • Example (Saturday 31st May)
  • Blue (Sunday 1st June)

Chef Line-Up at St Albans Foodies Festival 2025: 

  • Ritchie Stainsby (MasterChef: The Professionals 2024)
  • John Barber (Auberge du Lac)
  • Sofia Gallo (MasterChef, The Art of Making Pasta)
  • Tugba Gurson Caglar (Tabure Restaurant)
  • Paul Barker (Cinnamon Square)
  • Scott Barnard (Crockers Tring)
  • Shahnaaz Ayub (Author & TV Chef)
  • Eloise Durrant (C4's Extreme Cake Makers)

So get your tickets today for the Foodies Festival 2025 and start looking forward to one of the UK's best family-friendly festivals for the best prices online! 

Tickets are delivered instantly via email and SMS, so you're just a few clicks away from having your tickets to one of the best St Albans events 2025. 

Foodies Festival 2025 Locations & Dates:

Take a look at the Foodies Festival dates for 2025:

Get your Foodies Festival tickets for 2025 today and look forward to one of the best things to do for families in the UK this year.

East Drive,
Hertfordshire AL4 0HX
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Address: Oaklands College, East Drive, AL4 0HS

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  • Food & Drink vendors
  • Toilets
  • Paid parking

Yes, the Foodies Festival is wheelchair accessible. Carers attend for free!

The opening times for Foodies Festival in St Albans are as follows:

  • Friday 30th May 2025 – 2pm–10pm
  • Saturday 31st May 2025 – 11am–9pm
  • Sunday 1st June 2025 – 11am–8pm

The itinerary for Foodies Festival in St Albans is as follows:

Headliners:

  • Friday 30th May – Symphonic Ibiza
  • Saturday 31st May – Example
  • Sunday 1st June – Blue

Itinerary:

  • Live Music – all day
  • La Española Chefs Theatre – 12-6pm (Fri 2.30-7.30pm)
  • Drinks Theatre – 11.30am – 6.30pm (Fri 3-8pm)
  • Cake & Bake Theatre – 11.30am – 5.30pm (Fri 2-6pm)
  • Kids Cookery Theatre – 12-6pm (Fri 2-7pm)
  • Nigel Brown Cook School (£25 supp) – 1-5pm (Fri 3-6pm)
  • Silent Disco (£8 supp) – 5-7pm (Fri 4-7pm)
  • BBQ Stage – 12-6pm (Fri 2.30-7.30pm)

Foodies Festival offers a fun day out for all the family. Foodies Festival, the UK’s largest celebration of food & drink where visitors can feast on a vast array of culinary activities, making Foodies Festival the social event of the summer.

There are top chefs cooking in the Chef’s Theatre; wine, beer, and cocktails in the Drink’s Theatre, a live entertainment stage and kids can learn to cook too in the Children’s Cookery Theatre.

Yes, there are vegan cookery demonstrations in the Chefs Theatre at most venues, with plenty of street vendors selling vegetarian and vegan food to be tasted on site. 

In the cases of allergies or baby food you may bring your own food. You may not under any circumstances bring your own alcohol. Any alcohol you bring will be confiscated and disposed of. 

Yes, dogs are allowed into Foodies Festivals if they are kept on a short lead. 

Foodies Festivals sites have Disabled Parking, Wheelchair Access, Disabled Toilets and Carers are admitted FREE on the day.

Yes, the festival has plenty of activities that children can enjoy including a Children’s Cookery Theatre.

All kids under the age of 6 years gain free entry to Foodies Festivals.

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