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
Entertainment
Festival Bar
Street Food
Live Music
Malton Sculpture Trail
Family Fun
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.
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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)
The Festival Demos begin at: 10am each day
Main Stage Location: https://w3w.co/magnetic.passenger.flood
Please note: timings may be subject to change
Book Signings are scheduled to take place outside Kemps Book Shop after the author interviews* . Kemps Book Shop is located almost opposite to the Main Stage: https://w3w.co/measures.classmate.kneeled
For more detailed information, please see below.
Festival Demo Stage Timings 2025
Festival Demo Stage Timings: Saturday
10.00 - Ollie Farrar: Forty-Six, Malton
11.00 - Sat Bains: Restaurant Sat Bains (Two Michelin-starred restaurant)
12.00 - Callum Leslie: Executive Chef, The Black Swan Oldstead
13.00 - Nathan Kelly: Head chef, Castle Howard
14.00 - Yemi Adelekan: Masterchef UK, 2022 Semi Finalist
16.00 - Luke Jenneson: Owner of Luke’s Bakery
Festival Demo Stage Timings: Sunday
10.00- Gilly Robinson: The Cook’s Place, Malton
12.00 - George Birtwell & Samira Effa: The Epicurean Duo
13.00 - Rowan Claughton: Great British Bake Off, 2023
14.00 - Dominic Franks: “Dom in the Kitchen” - Author*
15.00 - Harvey Maher: YorkshirePlot2Plate, private chef
16.00 - Freya Cox: Great British Bake Off, 2021
Festival Demo Stage Timings: Monday
10.00 - Joe Lofthouse - RHS Harlow Carr
11.00 - Peter Neville: Head Chef - The Homestead, Goathland
12.00 -Mark Hudson: Head Chef - Tykes Restaurant at Sandburn Hall
13.00 - Chris Hobson: The View Restaurant, Scarborough
14.00 - Acorn Community Care with The Cook’s Place
15.00 - TBC
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:
Riverside Meadows YO17 6AX:
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Highfield Road YO17 7JU
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Parking is £7.50 per car (cashless, card payment only) and includes a free Park & Ride service to and from the festival.
Park & Ride buses run 09:00 to 18:30 Saturday, 10:00 to 18:30 on Sunday & 10:00 to 17:30 on Bank Holiday Monday.
What3Words to the demo stage https://w3w.co/simmer.operating.outdone
Coaches can park in nearby Wentworth Street car park.
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.
MUST Forge Blacksmith: Make Your Own Metal Rose in a choice of two different materials at the Festival.
Frequency: Every hour from 11am-3pm;
Duration: 40 mins to an hour, skill level dependent;
Group Size: 4 people per session.
Cost per workshop: copper rose - £45 | steel rose - £35
Participants will come away with a finished rose to take home. Pre-book your space by visiting the MUST Forge website.
New for 2025 - Childrens’ Poppy Making Workshops! Find out more.
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:
What3Words Reference: https://what3words.com/surreal.overcomes.haystack
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
What3Words Reference: https://w3w.co/plots.wove.vast
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
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
Griilled Cheese in Malton
Anyone for a Crepe?
Yorkshire Fish & Chips, fried in beef dripping of course!
Tommy Banks, Malton Food Lovers Festival Patron
Rarebird distillery keeping the Gin flowing
Live music in Malton
Malton Food Festival Sourdough
Prue Leith in Malton
The Hyde Family Band - Live in Malton
More Bao Buns
Levi Roots in the cookery school
Yorkshire sausage anyone!?
Street Food
Yorkshire strawberries, is there anything better?
Duck wraps with a smile
Sausage rolls in Malton
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.
