Malton Food Lovers Festival

Saturday 24th May, Sunday 25th May & Monday 26th May 2025!

Starring some of the UK’s most celebrated chefs from MasterChef, Great British Menu, and The Great British Bake Off and more!

“The Food Fest Of The North”

Set across the streets of Yorkshire’s Food Capital, Malton Food Lovers Festival is a celebration of Yorkshire's finest produce & cooking.

Expect artisan stalls, delicious street food, talks, tastings, celebrity chefs, demos, festival bar, live music & much, much more!

Malton’s family foodie extravaganza is a festival like no other. A giant celebration, a huge gourmet street party - “Yorkshire's Foodie Glastonbury” is back! FREE ENTRY!

What’s On at the Food Lovers Festival

Chef Demos

Stalls, Visitors at Summer Malton Food Lovers Festival, Yorkshire Food Festival

Stalls

Entertainment

Festival Bar, Street Food, Malton Food Lovers Festival, Yorkshire

Festival Bar

Street Food at Malton Food Lovers Festival, Yorkshire Food Festival

Street Food

Live Music

Malton Sculpture Trail

Family Fun

Yorkshire Baker, Local Producer, Malton Food Lovers Festival, Yorkshire

Local Producers

Malton Independent Shops

Author Interviews & Book Signings

General Info

  • Malton Food Lovers Festival is free to enter

  • The fun begins at 9am on Saturday and 10am on Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday

  • There will be over 120 stalls & street food vendors

  • The Festival Map (handed out on the weekend) shows all festival locations including toilets

  • There are two designated festival Park & Ride car parks operating (at a small charge). The Park and Ride service will be available at the entrance to Malton from the A64 (west), with a regular shuttle bus service direct to the event entrance. To walk takes approx. 10/15 mins.

  • Disabled parking, toilets & other facilities are available

  • There’ll be several traders selling veggie and/or vegan dishes and/or other special diet options. Please check with the individual vendor to make sure the food/ingredients are right for your requirements. The info stand at the festival will be able to give you directions.

  • Click here for updated train service information

  • We recommend you come hungry!

Timings & Info for the Spring Food Lovers Festival 2025

General Timings

  • The Festival runs from 9am-6pm on Saturday and 10am-6pm on Sunday & 10am-5pm on Bank Holiday Monday

Festival Bars Opening Times

  • Saturday (10am - 8pm) - “Taphouse Burnout” Music event at The Milton Rooms (6pm-8pm)

  • Sunday (10am - 5.30pm)

  • Bank Holiday Monday (10am - 4.30pm)

Festival Main Stage Chefs Demos Times (all free entry)

Festival Demo Stage Timings 2025

Festival Demo Stage Timings: Saturday

Festival Demo Stage Timings: Sunday

Festival Demo Stage Timings: Monday

Festival Car Parking

Malton’s town centre postcode is YO17 7LX. This is where the main festival is taking place. The festival car parks are located at:

Find more handy travel tips here.

Entertainment, Workshops & Family Fun

The Be Amazing Arts children’s activity tent (next to The Milton Rooms) offers free activities (storytelling, performing arts workshops and a dizzy disco) and also offer face painting and crafts for a nominal fee.

The ‘Creativitent’ will be open 10am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday and 4pm on Bank Holiday Monday.

Brass Bands & Buskers Schedule for the weekend: TBC

Saturday 24 May: 

Sunday 25 May: 

Monday 26 May

The Vintage Funfair will also return for the 2025 Food Lovers Festival.

Location: The Shambles Car Park:

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Find traditional fairground and funfair rides such as a carousel, bungees, hook a duck and more at this event.

Tickets/rides are chargeable.

Animal House Birds of Prey

Location: Newgate, by the Yorkshire Pudding Wall

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Whilst you’re visiting the Malton Food Lovers Festival, why not visit the Animal House Birds of Prey stand too? They specialise in the rescue and rehabilitation of unwanted or injured owls and hawks.

Tickets are chargeable.

Taphouse Burnout Music Evening - New for 2025!

Brand new music event for 2025! Stay a while longer and enjoy an evening of music at The Milton Rooms organised by Taphouse Burnout.

See live performances from:

  • Mooch

  • Phil Hooley

  • Gary Stewart

  • Graeme Hargreaves

Location What3Words: https://what3words.com/intervals.outcasts.gravel

Malton Sculpture Trail Spring 2025

We’re excited to announce that the popular Malton Sculpture Trail art showcase will be back at the 2025 Food Lovers Festival across the bank holiday weekend.

There’ll be almost 20 pieces of artwork on display, many of which will be created Yorkshire artists using a range of mediums even including some 2D art this time!

Applications are now closed: Home | Malton Sculpture Trail

Trail maps can be downloaded here: Trail Map

On Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May, join the Comp BBQ Team and their contestants for the Malton Grill and Smoke Festival in the meadows beneath The Talbot Hotel.

The mouth-watering new addition to this year’s Food Lovers Festival will feature where some of the UK’s top BBQ teams will battle it out in a masterclass of flame-grilled meats.

Once you arrive at the festival site there’ll be two distinct areas. Towards the river at the bottom of the festival will be The Whole Hog BBQ Comp, 17 teams competing in 7 rounds of BBQ cooking competition. You can watch the teams in action and watch all the entries being judged by our panel of judges in the Cranswick judging area.

At the top of the festival there’ll be the Weber Barbecue Theatre for visitors to watch and get involved with chefs and BBQ cooks cooking up barbecue treats. Then finally there will be a selection of local and national traders in our barbecue shopping area. From hot sauces to mini smokers, there is something for everyone.


If you’d like to be one of our amazing sponsors or partners at the Food Lovers Festivals, we’d love to hear from you. For more info on these great opportunities, please contact us at enquiries@visitmalton.com


Volunteering at the Festival

Volunteering at Malton Food Lovers Festival, Yorkshire

From the very first year, the food festival’s most important ingredient was our brilliant volunteers!

Without our volunteers we simply couldn’t run our festivals and other events.

Whether selling tickets, preparing ingredients or manning festival entrances – a volunteer is first and foremost a host and an ambassador for Malton. Some of our volunteers have been with us for years, but we always have room for more!

If you would like to help host Malton’s biggest events, please contact enquiries@visitmalton.com

We’d love you to join the team!

Festival Gallery

Festival Film

A Word On Atmosphere…

What is it about Malton? What is it about our Food Festival that seems to resonate with people? After 15 years of asking, the same answer comes up time and time again - atmosphere.

And it’s true, there’s a buzz, a feeling, something you can’t put your finger on. It’s the fact that we don’t just put a tent in a field. The fact that you have to explore the little streets and charming alleyways of Malton to see all the festival offers.

And it’s that connection between the town and festival that’s the secret. Yes, it’s the street food, stalls, music, the happy hum of thousands of foodie visitors. But what’s makes Malton so special?

It’s the atmosphere.

The FOOD FEST of the NORTH”.

Prue Leith