Food and Drink Festivals in Leeds

Each May the city celebrates its fantastic food scene with Leeds Indie Food Festival, the country’s biggest festival of independent food and drink culture. The festival sees businesses all over the city collaborating to run innovative events, with everyone from fine dining restaurants to coffee shops, from independent cinemas to art galleries getting in on the action.

The Leeds International Beer Festival is an annual festival in the heart of the city centre, coming into its 7th year, which celebrates craft beers produced through the UK and overseas. Along with hundreds of beers and ciders from the UK, USA, Sweden and Germany, the festival also includes a street food marketing, live music across two stages and other beer-related activities in the heart of the city centre.

Jessie Leong - LIF15 - The Wild East Pop-up with Olia Hercules

Yorkshire Post Food And Drink Show 2015 - Hannah Webster

More than 100 exhibitors will be showcasing the region's finest food and drink at The Yorkshire Post's Yorkshire Food and Drink Show, in June at Millennium Square in Leeds. If you're passionate about food and drink there'll be a heavenly combination to stimulate the senses. There'll be live cookery demonstrations from local chefs, artisan food specialists exhibiting delicious produce, traditional real ales, Pimms and cocktail bars and some of Yorkshire’s finest restaurants serving their signature dishes. In addition there'll be the sizzle of delicious street food dishes from around the world being cooked right in front of you. A foodies delight the show is completely free to the public.

The Cocktail Experience sees many of Leeds' top cocktail bars come together to celebrate these popular beverages. It's the festival for cocktail lovers, with 18 premium bars and their leading mixologists shaking up their unique creations, from the classic to the contemporary to the weird and the wonderful.