Delicious Doncaster Food and Drink Festival

Prepare your taste buds for a treat! Over four days. Doncaster City Centre will play host to Doncaster’s annual foodie event of the year.

The Bank Holiday weekend will see food and drink stalls throughout the city centre as well as guest chefs, demonstrations and entertainment for all the family.

This 4 day event will entail:

Friday 2nd May -

• Street Food traders, distillers and confectioners join us for 4-days of Delicious Doncaster 2025, lots of scrumptious flavours to whet your appetite and tickle your tastebuds.
• Live demonstrations from some of the fabulous Doncaster Market traders.
• Plus the opening of the 3-day Doncaster Beer Festival in Sir Nigel Gresley Square.

Saturday 3rd May -  

• Bring the children along for Sooty’s Bake Off, Sooty, Sweep and Sue join us to show off their culinary skills at 11am and 2pm in the Corn Exchange.
• A chocolate Brick sculpture demonstration and workshop, become a master chocolatier for the day and learn how to work with chocolate to create your very own chocolate sculpture (Entry is free, walk-in on first-come, first-served basis)
• Walkaround entertainment from Gordon Blur, Monsieur Garcon and Le Chefs and a special performance from our region’s Rock Choir.

Sunday 4th May - 

• Cocktail Master Class in the Corn Exchange be prepared for lots of giggles as you learn to make some fabulous cocktails and sample the end results. 2 times available. 1pm and 2.30pm (Entry is free, walk-in on first-come, first-served basis).
• Live Ice-sculpting in the Market Square
• Walkaround entertainment from Bread & Butter Theatre, At Yor Service and Comedy Waiters

Monday 5th May - 

Delicious Doncaster will join the nation in celebrating VE Day 80 Victory in Europe and honouring the last of a great generation as part of the Great British Food Festival.

We will be holding a Big Lunch in the Market Square with the option to bring your own picnic or sample some on the fabulous food available from the Delicious Doncaster food vendors or other delicious options from our City Centre and Wool Market businesses, picnic tables will be available for use.

This is a chance to reflect and celebrate what’s remarkable about our communities and the people around us today and to remember that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when we work together, so bring the family along or join friends for a day filled with entertainment and activities.

Monday is also includes:

• Vegetable and Fruit Carving demonstration and workshop, see the fabulous designs created by our visiting artist and learn how to create your own food sculptures.(Entry is free, walk-in on first-come, first-served basis).
• Walkaround entertainment from Monsieur Garcon, Le Chefs and the Bicycle Bistro.
• 2:00pm – 3:00pm The Bowkers: The much loved Doncaster musical family join us in the Market Square for an hour of music and song.

There will be international Street Food Traders dotted all around the city centre offering a variety of cuisines and spirits. There is also the Doncaster Beer Festival taking place in Sir Nigel Gresley Square between 2nd-4th May.