Japanese Mushroom Lunch
Mushrooms are woven into Japan’s food culture, valued for their rich flavours, textures and umami. Enjoy a Japanese lunch by Kazuko of Belmont House, featuring four carefully prepared mushroom dishes, accompanied by traditional shiitake mushroom tea. 12pm until 6pm
£25 per person belmonthouse@btinternet.com 07983 523989
Hay Saturday Market
Visit Hay’s Saturday market - the last of 2026 - and discover speciality foods, artisan makers, local producers, gatherers and vintage resellers.
The vibe is always relaxed. Visitors can shop, sample produce, and sit on the square and Castle terraces to eat, drink and soak up the Fungi Town ambience.
The square has a focus on food, with the Buttermarket showcasing fledgling and established designer makers.
Timings: 3 Oct, 10am-4pm
Free
6 course tasting menu at FIR
Join us at FIR By Matt Sampson for a special evening, Matt and his team will be putting together a full tasting menu focussing around some of his favourite mushrooms and truffles all the way through from snacks to desserts! Friday 2nd October with very limited availability.
6:15-6:30PM Arrival
65 GBP Per Person
6 Course Tasting menu focussing on Mushrooms + Truffles all the way through
Bookable via our website https://restaurantfir.co.uk/
Origin Pizza
Origin Pizza champions quality produce and traditional methods, while bringing their own creative approach to seasonal toppings and flavour combinations. They are passionate about serving memorable food and sharing great pizza with great people. For Fungi Town, Origin Pizza is embracing the festival spirit with a selection of mushroom-led specials, showcasing fungi in all their delicious forms alongside their much-loved favourites.
Hay Cinema Bookshop
Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd October in the evenings from 17:30 - 20:30
Website: https://www.originpizza.com/
Mushroom food & drink at The Globe
The Globe Kitchen.
For the Fungi Festival, The Globe Kitchen at The Globe at Hay will be serving a special mushroom-inspired burger, specially created for the festival. Come along and try our unique fungi-inspired creation, made especially for this celebration of all things mushrooms!
Mushroom Cocktails at The Globe
Join us at The Globe at Hay for a special mushroom-inspired cocktails created especially for our mushroom festival. We’ll be serving a selection of creative cocktails inspired by woodland flavours and seasonal ingredients, with drinks such as our Woodland Mule, vodka, ginger beer, fresh lime, mushroom syrup and rosemary. Come and enjoy a drink with a deliciously earthy twist while celebrating all things mushrooms at The Globe.
The Globe Café
Set inside a beautifully converted chapel in the heart of Hay-on-Wye, The Globe Café offers a unique range of mushroom-inspired drinks.Enjoy freshly brewed coffees, including creamy lattes, a selection of herbal teas, and our signature mushroom hot chocolate a rich and comforting twist on a classic favourite. A cosy and welcoming space to discover something a little different, one cup at a time.
The Old Black Lion celebrates Fungi Town
The Old Black Lion are putting on some special, exciting dishes inspired by all things fungi. Our Chef team are busy using different ingredients to create tasty, creative and moreish dishes which we'd love you to try over the weekend. Using local suppliers and ingredients we will enjoy celebrating this years' Fungi Town with unique plates of food to be enjoyed over the weekend.
Lunch service: 12 - 2
Evening Service 6 - late
Book online or call 01497820841
Dugan's Food & Wine
Dugan’s Food and Wine will be putting on special mushroom based food over the weekend of Fungi Town. You can find them on their website
Shepherds Parlour’s Great Mushroom Menu
Shepherds is joining Fungi Town with a special menu celebrating the variety of seasonal mushrooms. Alongside its popular grilled sandwiches, home-baked cakes, scones and savoury bakes, look out for wild mushroom, thyme and shallot tart, chestnut mushroom pinwheels, a roasted Portobello mushroom melt and a shiitake, Taleggio and parsley pesto toastie. And for something warming, try the special Fungi Town hot chocolate, made with dark chocolate, organic oat milk and Lion’s Mane powder.
Shepherd’s Parlour, 9 High Town, Hay, HR3 5AE
Fungi Fudge
The Fudge Shop in Hay are making a Fungi Fudge for Hay's Fungi Weekend! Chocolate fudge with Lions Mane Mushrooms! 🍄
Only a limited number of bars of fudge will be made! Available to buy from the shop from the 2nd October 🍄
Food in Hay Castle Café
Visit the popular Hay Castle Café and enjoy some mushroom-themed dishes
Mushrooms back on the menu at Baka
Baka will have a variety of mushroom themed baked goods on offer from garlic mushroom focaccia to our fan favourite mixed mushroom soup. As well as our mushroom specials our usual fresh baked sourdough bread, savoury pasties, French pastries and cakes will also be available.
Opening times for Fungi Town weekend:
Fri 2 Oct - 8am-2pm
Sat 3 Oct - 8am-2pm
Sun 4 Oct - 9am-2pm
Cook on the Wild Side
Marlow Renton demonstrates some amazing mushroom recipes from the new Wild Food UK Forager’s Cookbook.
Can I Eat It?
Hear Marlow Renton of Wild Food UK describe and introduce wild edible fungi and answer your questions.
Fermentation - Kombucha Workshop
Join local writer and yeast expert Simon Poffley from The Fermentarium for a deep dive into the fizzy, flavoursome world of yeast-based drinks. Learn about the cultural journey of kombucha from Tibet to California, wrap your taste-buds around different yeast-derived items, and create your own kombucha.
Tickets £25 from Hay Castle website
Pickling and Preserving Workshop
Join local author and forager Liz Knight from Forage Fine Foods on a masterclass to help you preserve and pickle seasonal food - including mushrooms!
Booking: Email tim@clan-cic.org
Operatic Garlic Mushroom at Leaf Kitchen
Opera singer and chef Haydn serves up home made garlic mushroom soup from Leaf Kitchen on Lion Street.
Baka Bakery
Baka Bakery will be featuring special mushroom fayre over the weekend of Fungi Town. You can find them on Facebook
Saturday Market
Hay’s popular Saturday market will have plenty of treats in store for fungi lovers, from handmade foraging baskets by Sarah Adby, to specialty fungi from Marches Mushrooms, and don’t forget all the delicious yeast products, such as cheeses from Monkland Cheesmakers and 100% Hay, organic wine from Blackmountain Vineyard, and award-winning cider from Artistraw Cider.
