The opening times are 09:00 – 16:30

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About the festival

Hailed as one of the best food festivals in the UK by Conde Nast Traveller, and listed in the Top Ten UK Food Festivals by Eventbrite, Clitheroe Food Festival will return for 2025 on Saturday 9th August, organised by Ribble Valley Borough Council and sponsored by The Compleat Food Group and Fort Vale

The Festival is a FREE to enter event which attracts over 20,000 food lovers from across the UK. The focus of the festival is on the finest food and drink producers in Ribble Valley and Lancashire but also offers food and drink from different parts of England.

Clitheroe Food Festival is an annual showcase of the hard work and dedication from local food and drink producers, and their fabulous produce.

The Festival takes over the town centre with the biggest street buffet of food and drink you’ve ever sampled with tastes, smells and sounds to entice all the senses!  Local food producers are handpicked from across the county to set up market stalls in every available conceivable public space, to offer samples and sell their wares with demonstrations and food related activities and entertainment in the most unlikely venues.

The main town centre streets are completely cut off to traffic for the event with a park and ride service available for visitors arriving by car.

Expect glorious, quality Lancashire produce, the Ribble Valley’s superb and inspirational chefs, food-based activities for all the family and great music from the area. A huge array of wonderful foods, from meat from traditional Lancashire breeds and organic dairy produce including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice-cream, to handmade pies and pastries and a feast of fruit and vegetables packed with natural flavours.