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Food festival is back for summer
from Colmore Life
by Colmore Life
Popular Event To Return With A New Home For 2023
The much-loved Colmore Food Festival is making a return to Birmingham for its 10th anniversary on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd July 2023.
The free, must-visit festival will return in a new location in the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral and will provide guests with a tasty and affordable spread of mouth-watering mini dishes from local traders’ latest menus.
Whether you’re a die-hard foodie or just fancy sampling the best of the District’s food and drink scene, the festival will be host to many food and drink stalls, with a range of options available to tickle everyone’s tastebuds!
The award-winning event showcases the best food and drink offerings from across the Colmore Business District and attracts over 30,000 visitors each year.
Visitors will be spoilt for choice with the stalls made up of local restaurants, coffee shops, bars and hotels offering a selection of meat, vegetarian and vegan options. Colmore BID will be inviting businesses, operating in the District, to showcase tasters of their dining at the festival stalls. Completely free to attend, price caps are set per item to ensure the selections on offer are both tasty and affordable for all. More details will be released soon, so keep your eyes peeled on Colmore BID’s social media channels for more information.
Works To Improve Victoria Square
A multi-million pound regeneration of Birmingham’s city centre is taking place with Victoria Square, Colmore Row and Waterloo Street being repaved.
It has been nearly 30 years since significant improvements have been made to the city centre’s public spaces – Victoria Square was pedestrianised in 1993.
Ongoing works to The River (the Floozie in the Jacuzzi’s real name) will also be carried out.
The overall project has secured £5 million from the Government’s Transforming Cities Fund and £20.478m from corporate funding, which was approved as part of the Council 2020/21+ Capital Programme in February 2020
The second part of the works, which are set to be completed by mid-2024 will see improvements to the areas around Colmore Row and Waterloo Street providing a pedestrianised, safe and accessible environment.
