Newport Food Festival is an annual

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for held at

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Overview

The festival was established in 2010 with over 80 businesses participating and takes place in October. The event is free. The festival has stages holding cooking demonstrations from local and national chefs. There is a chefs’ cook off and a teen chefs event. Food and drink stalls are located along High Street, the pedestrianised area of Bridge Street and on Westgate Square Activities include live music, inflatable chefs on stilts, a balloon modelling magic chef, face painting and colouring activities. There was no festival in 2020 because of the

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Structure

The festival is organised by

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and supported by volunteers. It is sponsored by

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