Royal Tunbridge Wells Food & Drink Festival

Calverley Grounds fills with 55+ stalls of Kent and world food for a free weekend, with a neat trick — a £9 cap on every dish in the Taster Menu area, so you can graze across a dozen cuisines without the bill spiralling. There's a cooking demo stage too, making it as much a day of watching and chatting as eating.

Easy to drop into for an hour or make a proper afternoon of it — bring cash for the smaller stalls and come hungry.