For our fifth year of #EatDrinkFestival, we’re promising a stark departure from what you’re used to local food festivals. Ours included. 

It’s still a 2-day event, but we’ve trimmed our vendor numbers down significantly - 31 on each day. No more trying to be ambitious and stuffing in all the vendors we like. This year, we’ve had to be more discerning and make some very tough calls. We heard your “everybody is doing grills” complaints in the festival survey. There’ll be lots of new faces and fewer regulars.

We sat down with some vendors who have attended EatDrinkFestival over the years and they told us what it’s like from their perspective.

Looking forward now, the menus we’ve seen this year are the most exciting we’ve had since we started doing this. 

This year’s vendor lineup includes a first-time appearance for Chef Fregz’s Fregz À Porter, as well as Instagram-favourite, Dooney’s Kitchen, we’ll also have Jaka’s Grill all the way from Abuja, Agbalumo wine from Dala, and Nigerian craft beer from Igbadun Brewing Company. Here’s the full lineup:

Eats

• Afrolems Culinary Services

• Anasbari

• Bunfire

• Chefbelle’s pink panther

• Chow Noodle Bar

• Clay Food & Drinks

• Cocktailville & Chops

• Corporate Jollof N More

• Crispy and Grill By Grubs Republic

• Dooney’s Kitchen

• El Padrino

• Ette's Barbecue

• Fregz Á Porter

• Heels in the Kitchen

• Jakas Grill

• Keiko's

• Kewa's Kitchen

• Korede Spagetti

• Loracucina

• Rhodes BBQ Smokehouse

• Sooyah Bistro

• Thai Thai

• The AJs Gourmet

• The Fish Lady

• Toasties

• Urban Fuxion

• Yoyode Foods

• Zee3hree BBQ

Drinks

• 19.8 Drinks & Cocktails

• Igbadun Brewing Company

• Bariety Club

• Beyond Fab Smoothies

• Big Fish Cocktails

• Bubbletii

• Dala

• Hol Brew

• Koalture

• Limehouse

• Quack Culture

• Sawari Cocktails

• Segi's Zobo

• Slush Queen

• Tutti Blendz N Treatz

Sweets

• Adunbyabby

• Eden Desserts Lagos

• Hans and René

• Moo Diary

• Muse Creamery

• Royal Pops

• Sophisticated Wobia

• Summer's Bloom Cake studio

• Torte Sugar Flakes

• Yellow Bunny Unique Creations

#EatDrinkFestival is back in Lagos on December 28 and 29 at The Sterling Arena.

Tickets are available HERE.

As always, vendors menus will be released before the Festival so you can have enough time to plan your mission and your budget.

If you haven’t already, join our Piggyvest Kolo to put a little money aside for EatDrinkFestival.

Festival tickets are also on sale too, so go on and cop those early too!

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