🗓️ Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th July 2026
The Corfe Castle Food & Drink Festival returns this summer for another year to celebrate the fantastic food and drink produced in Purbeck and the South Dorset area.
The National Trust and Love It Local are once again hosting the event in the grounds of Corfe Castle.
Set in the castle’s Outer Bailey, the festival is an opportunity to sample some of the area’s very best food and drink and to meet the people behind the businesses.
There’ll also be live music across the weekend.
- Timings: 10am – 5.30pm (tbc)
- Entry: Free (normal castle admission applies)
Stallholders for 2025
Details for 2026 are to be announced, but here’s a flavour of what to expect, with last year’s programme:
Food & Drink
Sample tasty street food from:
- A Taste of Thailand
- Flaming Peaches – Pizza & burgers
- Kingston Country Courtyard – Smashed burgers (+ vegan option)
- Manju – Indian cuisine
- Pantastic Paella
- Swanage Bay Fish Fish – Crab, prawns & lobster (Sunday only)
Followed by sweet treats & baked goods by:
- Bayside Bakery – Brownies
- Dorset Shortbread
- Purbeck Ice Cream
- The Salt Pig
All washed down with drinks from:
- Black Ven Distillery – Rum
- Dancing Goat – Coffee & smoothies
- Dorset Nectar Cider
- Shorton Fair Gin
- Whimsical Forager
Produce
Find some new favourite flavours to take home with you at these stalls:
- Dorset Deer Shack Venison – Cured meats
- From Dorset with Love – Jams, chutneys, sauces & vinegars
- Horty’s Honey
- Weymouth 51 – Chilli xauces & condiments
- Wild Patridge – Chilli jam & Gifts
- Valley of Stones Cheese
Arts, Crafts & Homeware
- Amazing Sharpeners
- Artie Flora parasols
- Frances Vincent – Recycled gifts
- Barbara Townsend – Children’s author
- Skulls & Lilies – Artworks
- BB Designs – Artworks
Stallholders
If you are a food or drink producer in the Purbeck or South Dorset area and would like a stall, get in touch with the Love it Local team by email: info@loveitlocalevents.co.uk
Find out more online: loveitlocalevents.co.uk/event/food-drink-festival/
