Participants

The Holland Festival 2025 will have many stallholders including merchants, food vendors, charities, exhibitions, and information booths. Some of the foods on offer include:

• Kibbeling – Fish bites as only the Dutch can make it – Street Food to die for.
• Herring –  It is not for the uninitiated – but the Dutch love them – are you brave enough to try one if you are not Dutch?
• Frites with all the famous Dutch sauces, including mayonnaise, currie, satay sauce & onions etc.
• Olie Bollen – A New Year’s eve speciality, that the Dutch love so much, it has become street food.
• Bitterballen (2 vendors) – available as bar food in every bar in Holland.
• Poffertjes (3 vendors) – mini pancakes – Street food all over the world now.
• Stroopwafels (2 vendors) – Every Dutch carnival and street market sells these warm delicacies.
• Appelflappen – Maybe the favourite pastry in Holland.
• Kaas souffle’s – A delicious way to each Dutch cheese warm!
• Rookworst – Possibly Europe’s best way to eat sausage (with due deference to all Germans)
• Frikandel Speciaal – A Dutch way of eating sausage as a street food.
• Kroketten (Croquettes) (3 vendors) – The favourite snack food in Holland?
• Broodje Haaring (Herring on a roll) – Just yum!! But are you brave enough to eat raw fish?
• Twisted Aardappels (potatoes) on a stick (stok) (2 vendors)
• Carnival sweets.
• Coffee (3 vendors)
• Ice cream with a touch of Dutch: with hagelslag, muisjes and speculaas & stroopwafel crumbs.
• Dutch Licorice (Drop)
• Milkshakes, soft drinks.
• Some Aussie options esp. for the kids.
• And two bars – run by the Abel Tasman Club – Carnegie!!