Verkopers & Exposants

Participants

Stalls at the Holland Festival in  2024 can be found on the Stalls List (this will be updated in 2025) https://hollandfestival.org.au/vendors-exhibitors/ 

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!!

Refreshments on offer include…

  • A bar selling Bavaria Beer, Belgium  Beer, Red & White wine,  Champagne & more inc. soft drinks

Businesses founded in the Netherlands, businesses owned by people of Dutch Heritage, and/or importers of Dutch products are invited to get involved.

Examples of the other items on offer in 2024 were:

Anne Frank – mini expo – learn about one of the true heroes of WW2.

Dutch Australian Cultural Centre expo – about Dutch immigration to Australia

Compagnie Batavia 17th Century Dutch soldiers

Model Circus, model Dutch sailing ships, Dutch authors

Dutch traditional Costume display

Also – Face painting & Balloon Twisting and 1 and  2 Dutch Street organs.

Children’s musical entertainer – Rudy’s One-man Band.

And much, much more..

If your business has a link to Dutch heritage and you would like to have your business involved in some way, apply to be a vendor, exhibitor or participant.

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