Once again on its 4th edition, the Bahrain Food Festival has proven to be an effective platform for startups, emerging entrepreneurs and established businesses to promote their products, showcase their innovative concepts and entrepreneurial spirit and at the same time boost visibility to visitors from Bahrain and across the region.

Held on 28th February to 16th March 2019, the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority (BTEA) announced that the Festival had attracted more than 220,000 visitors, exceeding statistics attained in previous editions, along with the successful participation of a record number of 108 establishments, 81 of which are local, while 73 other outlets offered a wide array of cuisines from here and around the world.

The Festival serves as an important hub of emerging trends and concepts in the local food industry and displays as well the vast potentials that abound in the food startup ecosystem in the Kingdom. Business aside, the Festival has also become a vital part of the family recreational landscape in the Kingdom for the past four years– an annual attraction for good food, fun and frolic for over two weeks in the ending months of the winter season. Live cooking demos, musical and dance performances and various games and leisure activities are available for both children and adults alike.

The prospects for the sector remain lucrative as business participation and visitor count every year continue to break the record of the previous year, and it’s all just an appetizer for what bigger culinary surprises the next few years hold for the Kingdom’s biggest food festival.