Gascoyne Food Festival celebrates fresh flavours in 2026
Following a sold-out 2025 festival, the Gascoyne Food Festival returns this year with a program of immersive food, travel and storytelling experiences.
The festival is set to hit Carnarvon, Exmouth, Bullara and Dirk Hartog Island from Friday, August 21, to Sunday, September 6, and invites visitors on a journey through the Gascoyne region that connects food, culture and landscape.
Following Tropical Cyclone Narelle, this year marks an important moment for the festival, inviting visitors to experience the people, produce and landscapes of the unique Gascoyne region.
“This year’s festival is about more than simply returning,” said Festival Director Louise Cashmore. “It’s about showcasing the Gascoyne through experiences that are genuinely immersive, deeply connected to place and unlike anything else in Australia.”
The 2026 program has been curated as a place-led journey, bringing together chefs, growers, fishers, storytellers and cultural custodians.
Festival highlights include The Plantation Feast, set within a working mango plantation and curated by WA Good Food Guide Young Chef of the Year Jessica Roe. The multi-course menu showcases seasonal dining deeply connected to place.
Fireside Yarns: Land, Sea & Story is set to bring food, culture and storytelling together in an immersive evening led by acclaimed chef and storyteller Paul “Yoda” Iskov of Fervor.
A night of live music, fire-cooked food and outback energy, the Whalebone Hoe-Down brings together attendees for a celebration featuring bold regional flavours, live music and line dancing.
Attendees can also enjoy fire-cooked food, music and storytelling with the Bullara Station Feast.
Australia’s Last Sunset experience additionally allows attendees to watch the sun set over the Indian Ocean on one of Australia’s most remote islands before an evening of food and storytelling.
Check out the program below:
Taste the Gascoyne
The Plantation Feast
Fireside Yarns: Land, Sea & Story
Whalebone Hoedown: Country Under the Stars
Drift by Exhale: A Multi-Course Dining Experience
Moonrise Over Ningaloo
Bullara: Fire, Beef & Big Skies
Australia’s Last Sunset
Hands-On Workshop: Sausage Making
Hands-On Workshop: Fish Filleting & Smoking
Skin & Gin: A Luxe Wellness Experience
Gascoyne Food Festival hits the Gascoyne region from Friday, August 21, to Sunday, September 6, 2026. For more info and tickets, visit gascoynefoodfestival.com.au