"A Hertfordshire market town's CAMRA festival at the Rugby Club: three days, dozens of ales and ciders, and a town that always seemed like it ought to have a good beer festival."
Hitchin Beer and Cider Festival
"The 18th running in Shakespeare's town: real ales and ciders across two days in a setting that already draws visitors for far less interesting reasons than this."
Stratford-upon-Avon Beer and Cider Festival
"A walled park, 100+ local producers, and an afternoon that has a habit of turning into a very good evening."
South Downs Food Festival
"The grounds of a Tudor manor house, local artisan producers, chef demonstrations, and a weekend that develops a habit of producing purchases you hadn't planned on."
Surrey Country & Craft Food Show
"A spectacular Warwickshire art gallery and its historic parkland host a weekend of chef demos, artisan producers and live music. The grounds normally cost £22 to enter."
Great British Food Festival, Compton Verney
"A village hall beer festival on the Broads beside the Humpty Dumpty Brewery, reached if you like by the last working chain ferry on the river."
Reedham Beer Festival
"A weekend of street food, chef demos and artisan stalls in the parkland of a Palladian house on the edge of Swindon, part of the series Villagly already lists at Compton Verney."
Great British Food Festival, Lydiard Park
"Food stalls and live music in the grounds of the longest country house facade in Europe, in the estate village of Wentworth."
Great British Food Festival, Wentworth Woodhouse
"Five days of real ale among the steam engines and the great brick viaduct at the East Anglian Railway Museum, the village beer festival that comes with platforms."
Chappel Beer Festival
"The food festival that started the whole British movement, filling a Monmouthshire market town under the Sugar Loaf with Welsh lamb, farmhouse cheese and orchard cider every September."
Abergavenny Food Festival
"The self styled Rural Capital of Food throws its October festival around the pork pie and the Stilton, with one of the largest gatherings of artisan cheesemakers in the country."
Melton Mowbray Food Festival
"A celebration of the prized Comber Earlies potato, with a food village in this County Down market town."
Comber Earlies Food Festival
"A medieval-rooted fair with onion-eating contests and the heaviest onion competition in a Forest of Dean town."
Newent Onion Fayre
"The Vale of Evesham marks its asparagus season with an auction at the Fleece Inn and the Gus the asparagus man parade."
British Asparagus Festival
"One of the original independent food festivals, set in the castle of this celebrated Marches food town."
Ludlow Food Festival
"Suffolk producers gather at Snape Maltings by the river for two days of tastings and demonstrations."
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
"Anglesey producers gather in the shadow of the medieval castle on the Menai Strait."
Beaumaris Food Festival
"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival