With less than two weeks until the gates open for Boomtown 2022, organisers have shared an official list of traders who’ll be at the festival. And for the first time, there will be a 50-50 split between vegetarian or vegan traders and those selling meat.
The list of over 120 different food stalls includes established festival favourites such as Bunnyman’s Bunnychow chilli-filled bread, the vegan-friendly Floating Lotus cafe, VFC‘s vegan fried chick*n and Vegan Vice, who use their bespoke signature soy patties to serve up some of the best burgers I’ve tried in years.
Ahead of the previous Boomtown Fair in 2019, there were conversations about the festival potentially becoming entirely meat-free at some point in the future. We’re not aware of any plans to bring this in, but we do know this year’s sustainability rules around food include all tea, coffee, sugar and bananas being Fairtrade certified and all fish to be sustainable and from the Marine Conservation Society’s ‘Fish to Eat’ list.
As in previous years, there’s a complete ban on single-use plastic being supplied on site, so all plates, cutlery and other serveware must be fully compostable. Where possible, all fruit and veg should be local and seasonal, while meat and dairy products should be British, free-range, organic and ideally locally sourced.
Boomtown 2022 food traders list
- Alfresco
- All Day Brekkie & Burgers
- Baker & White Coffee Co.
- Batterd
- Bento Fuji
- Billy Bobs Buttermilk Fried Chicken
- Broo
- Bunnymans Bunnychow
- Burrito Boys
- Canny Coffees
- Caribbean Delicious
- Carnival Coffee
- Chicken Run
- Chickenish
- Clark’s Kitchen
- Copperhouse Chocolate
- Cotto Fresh Pasta Bar
- Coyote Moon
- Crumpet Mad
- Diamond Dogs
- Earth To Oven
- Eat Greek
- Edgy Veggie
- Exotic Tagine
- Feed The Village
- Floating Lotus
- Get Loaded Burgers & Fries
- Good Slice
- Goodness Gracious Healthy Foods
- Green Peppers Red Tomatoes
- Gyros
- Habibi’s
- Hand Battered Fish & Chips
- Happy Maki
- Hettie’s Hen House
- Holy Cow
- Italian Kitchen – Wood Fired Pizza
- Jailbirds – Chicken N Strip
- Jeco Bowl
- Just Desserts
- K-noodles
- Killer Waffles
- King Of The Yorky
- Kitty’s Catering – Blue And Pink
- Kra Pow Ldn Ltd
- Kwackers
- La Bonne Crepe
- Lalita’s
- Let Them Eat Brownies
- Lighthouse Fish & Chip Co
- Little Green Trailer
- Loaded Fries & Nachos
- Mad Dogs
- Maple Brand Poutine
- Meloncauli
- Mivesi Naan Truck
- Moo Mix
- Moony’s Halloumi
- Naania
- Nelly’s Barn
- New York Slice
- Ninas
- Noodle City Plant Based Vegan Food
- Olivier’s Bakery
- Om Burger
- On The Green
- Once In A Blue Moon Ltd.
- Pad Thai
- Paellaria
- Passion & Smoke
- Peace & Loaf
- Pizza, Pasta, Pancakes & Breakfast
- Pommarola Pizza Gardens Ltd
- Popdogs
- Poppies Pineapples
- Really Awesome Coffee
- Red Citroen Van
- Red Radish
- Retreat
- Rigatonis Pasta
- Rocket Dogs
- Rollin’ Dogs
- Routes Coffee
- Say Cheese
- Secret Paradise Cafe
- Senor Churror
- Shakebar
- Shawarma Bros
- Sheesh N Babs
- Stack’d Burgers
- Steam Punk Coffee
- Tasty Fresh Doughnuts
- Tea And Toast
- Teabag Chihuahua’s Streetfood Mexican
- Teriyaki Shack
- The Cow And Sow
- The Horsebox UK
- The Italian Kitchen Wood Fired Pizza
- The Jerk Yard
- The Living Room
- The Lush Creperie
- The Magic TeaPot
- The Mandarin Duck
- The Mixing Jug (Coffee & Crepe)
- The Real German Sausage Hut
- The Rickshaw Club – Indian Street Food
- The Smoking Rat
- The Vegan Kitchen
- The Wandering Cactus
- Tibetan Kitchen
- Toastie
- Toastie Toastie
- Unstabled Bar & Cafe
- Urban Falafal
- Vegan Vice
- VFC
- Village Cafe
- Woks Up
- Woodburns Raclette
- Wrap It
- Wrappers Delight
Earlier this month, Boomtown organisers revealed the first official map for 2022, ahead of the festival’s long-awaited return next month, giving us our first look at the new layout. Illustrated by @clraws, the map shows how a mix of spectacular new districts and old favourites will be arranged in the area formerly known as the ‘Downtown Bowl’.
A more detailed map is set to appear in the ‘Woov’ app in the coming days.
For the first time ever, Boomtown will use “every last inch” of the bowl to build their theatrical city, complete with immersive venues and huge stages. In previous years, the bowl has always contained some camping along with unused space hidden behind the main stages and between the city streets. This means while the main area of the festival will be much more compact, there’s still absolutely loads to see and you won’t have any massive uphill treks between the different main stages.
The aerial image below shows the former ‘Downtown Bowl’ and gives a good idea of how much space has been left unused, or dedicated to camping, in Boomtown’s recent years. This time, we’re expecting all of the space within the outer perimeter of lighting to be used for the City, so while the ‘Uptown’ area visible behind the woods won’t be returning, the total size of the CIty might not change much at all.
The forest parties at the Hidden Woods, Tangled Roots and Tribe of Fog all feature on the map and will return to their previous locations – so despite not having ‘Uptown’ to get to, you’ll still get chance to climb that mammoth staircase up into the Tribe of Frog woods and the Hilltop campsite.
Last month, Boomtown revealed loads more details on some of this year’s new venues. In the brand new Botanica district, new venues include Obsidian, a collaboration by female and non-binary icons featuring queer parties and high-energy music from around the globe, and the Botanica Zoo, with animals and humans living in a utopian community after a former zoo was rewilded.
Though Boomtown is now completely sold out, it’s easy to buy someone else’s ticket through the secure fan-to-fan resale system. Anyone with unwanted tickets can generate a secure link from their TicketSellers account to sell tickets to someone else for face value. The tickets will then be regenerated with the new ticket holder’s name. Names on tickets must match your ID on arrival at the festival, which means official TicketSellers links are the only way to buy someone else’s ticket. Any other offers won’t get you into the festival and are almost definitely scammers. Never send a bank transfer for Boomtown tickets and make sure you’re buying from a ww2.theticketsellers.co.uk link.
Fortunately, you don’t need to know someone with spare tickets to buy some as the secure fan-to-fan resale system makes it safe to buy from strangers. There’s even a constantly updated list of valid resale links over on Boomtown Source, where (almost) every type of Boomtown ticket is usually available for instant purchase.
This year’s Boomtown line-up is being kept secret until right before the event, to encourage people to attend for the festival itself rather than specific big-name acts. However, if you can’t wait until then to start building your own Boomtown playlist, check out Boomtown Source’s list of rumoured and ‘self-confirmed’ artists. Dozens of artists have already let slip they’ll be at Boomtown this summer on their own social media channels and tour posters.
Boomtown Fair returns to the Matterley Bowl near Winchester from Wednesday 10th to Sunday 14th August 2022.
Image credits:
First: Jody Hartley
Second: TheFestivals
Third: The Big Ladder Photography
Final: Jody Hartley
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