With over 60 different trade stands all being local, it gives you the customer a chance to meet the producers be that a beef farmer a honey maker a brewer or distiller.
In turn this gives you the opportunity to try and buy some superb foods to eat as street food or take home and cook.
With great food, great drink follows and with a wide choice of beer wine spirits and liqueurs you have many to choose from or alternatively non-alcoholic apple juice.
Renowned S4C chef Nerys Howell has a tasting table taking ingredients from around the market hall combining them into delicious combinations for you to try.
If you want to learn how to utilise some of the wonderful ingredients on offer then there is a Cookery Theatre, a collaboration with NPTC Group and CK Deli.
As a background there is melodic choir music of many genres www.welshcountry.co.uk/brecon-food-music/ which is so good that you can just stand and enjoy the different choirs.
Whether it is raining outside or cold having the festival in the Brecon Market Hall means your visit is completely weather resistant.
Getting to the Festival is made a lot easier removing trying to find somewhere to park The Festival organisers say:
“We’re offering a brand-new Park & Ride service to make your day easier and more enjoyable. Park at Brecon Cattle Market and catch a FREE bus into town!
“Parking is run by Accessibility Powys with a small donation of £3 per vehicle—supporting a great cause. Open from 10 AM to 4 PM, so you can relax and enjoy the festival stress-free.
“A big thank you to McCartneys Estate Agents and Williams Coaches for making this possible!”
Exciting park and ride service for the Brecon Beacons Food Festival
With all this cornucopia of things to try – taste – see – listen to it gets even better in that entry is FREE.
Brecon Beacons Food Festival is being held in the Market Hall in the Centre of Brecon on Saturday 5th October, 2024 and is open from 9.30am.
To make the festival free to enter the festival would like to show their appreciation to their sponsors: www.welshcountry.co.uk/brecon-beacons-food-festival-thanks-its-sponsors/.
