Kingaroy BaconFest

Overview

If you're serious about bacon, then there's only one place to be over the weekend of Friday, August 16–Sunday, August 18, 2024. That's the town of Kingaroy, about two-and-a-half hours north-west of Brisbane. As it does every year, it's dedicating three whole days to one glorious type of foodstuff.

Whether you're keen on eating it or buying a heap of it, if there's bacon involved, it's on offer during Kingaroy BaconFest. Browse the bacon market, watch bacon cooking demonstrations, catch pork masterclasses or try your hand at the tastiest eating contest there is. Yes, it's about bacon, obviously.

Getting cooking: a range of well-known chefs. 2024's talents haven't yet been revealed, but Miguel Maestre and Alastair McLeod were involved in 2023.

There's usually also a big bacon breakfast and a wine-and-swine party. Live music is also on the bill, plus bacon ice cream. And, you can get jogging at the running event called Rasher's Fun Run, then have your tastebuds tempted again a barbecue pork smoke-off competition.