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Sunderland food & drink festival 2026. **June 5th to 7th**

Brett

Brett

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Was really good last year , enjoyed loads of the bands on in keel square

HUGE NEWS 👀

The Sunderland Food & Drink Festival is BACK for 2026! 🍕🍹

Get ready for a weekend filled with delicious food & drink, family fun, live entertainment, music and more.

Taking place across Keel Square and High Street West, from Friday to Sunday 5-7 June.

We will keep you up to date with all of the vendors and entertainment right here, but you can also keep track through the website below!

We can't wait! 👏

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Enjoyed it last year.

I know one of the vendors setting up at Keel square, hope people turn up and help support these small businesses, events like these mean the world to them
 
Brett said:
Was really good last year , enjoyed loads of the bands on in keel square

HUGE NEWS 👀

The Sunderland Food & Drink Festival is BACK for 2026! 🍕🍹

Get ready for a weekend filled with delicious food & drink, family fun, live entertainment, music and more.

Taking place across Keel Square and High Street West, from Friday to Sunday 5-7 June.

We will keep you up to date with all of the vendors and entertainment right here, but you can also keep track through the website below!

We can't wait! 👏

You must be logged on to see external links
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It was great around market Square aswell with the African music. Actually made me proud of Sunderland
 
I was at the Darlington food festival yesterday. It was fairly decent but not a patch on the one held in Sunderland.

Looking forward to this year's
 
Just a reminder events like this take business away from hospitality venues in the city centre who need your support more than ever. Most aren’t local traders either so money going out of the city
 
Super Hodge said:
Just a reminder events like this take business away from hospitality venues in the city centre who need your support more than ever. Most aren’t local traders either so money going out of the city
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They bring visitors into the city centre, which I'm all for it.

Like yesterday we went to the food market but ended up in the indoor market for a couple of pints and some food from the local vendors.

Darlington was busy
 
Super Hodge said:
Just a reminder events like this take business away from hospitality venues in the city centre who need your support more than ever. Most aren’t local traders either so money going out of the city
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As a counter to that, some of the traders are local business who attend all the local events, these business are worth supporting and this event is a massive earner for them and will help them expand.
 
Super Hodge said:
Just a reminder events like this take business away from hospitality venues in the city centre who need your support more than ever. Most aren’t local traders either so money going out of the city
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I don’t know about this specific event but generally councils monitor/calculate impact on local economy and sustainability quite robustly to ensure a net gain for the local economy so it may in fact be positive for local businesses.
 
Super Hodge said:
Just a reminder events like this take business away from hospitality venues in the city centre who need your support more than ever. Most aren’t local traders either so money going out of the city
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Are you suggesting we boycott it ?

I would imagine a lot of people, especially those with kids, won't be taking any trade away from pubs and restaurants as they wouldn't be going to them either way
 
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