Noosa Eat & Drink Festival

Overview

The Noosa Eat & Drink Festival is returning in 2024 and further cementing its status as one of the most coveted culinary tickets on the annual calendar of events.

The 2024 program runs across four days and nights, promising a blockbuster lineup of 75-plus events. This covers everything from sessions with superstar chefs, a series of long leisurely lunches, and a Beach Club with Italian-style grazing and cocktails right by the waves on beautiful Noosa Main Beach to make the most of Queensland's winter sunshine.

Some specific highlights include the Festival Village that runs throughout the Saturday and Sunday.

The Village is the vibrant heart of Noosa Eat & Drink where ticket-holders can meander between cooking and cocktail masterclasses, competitions and chef demos featuring big ticket foodie personalities like Hayden Quinn, Khanh Ong, Gary Mehigan and Anna Polyviou. You'll also find pop-up restaurants and a VIP Lounge co-hosted by Chandon Garden Spritz for the requisite refreshments.

The lineup of long lunches is always a major drawcard where you can really take advantage of the gorgeous coastal location.

This year, Hasting Street favourite Locale is hosting The Locale Long Italian Lunch in collaboration with Will Cowper of Otto Brisbane for a generous Italian feast to be paired with Cloudy Bay wines.

The Peregian Beach Hotel is throwing the Local Love Lunch to celebrate the best local and native produce from the region. And if Mexican food and booze are your favourite things, the Bandita Late Lunch will find Bandita in Noosaville bring big fiesta energy with a five-course lunch with matching cocktails and tequila tasters courtesy of Australia's top distributor of Mexican spirits, Mextrade.

And that's just the tip of the delicious iceberg. Noosa Food & Drink is well and truly worthy of a long weekend sojourn to the Sunshine Coast. But get in quick on the tickets — they don't stick around for long.