Around Bankstown 6:00 pm
Exhausted Sydney’s best restaurants and looking for your next foodie fix? One of Sydney's fave multicultural food festivals is turning 21 this month – and it's celebrating with its biggest program yet.
Bankstown Bites will return to Western Sydney from July 24-25, transforming Griffith Park and Bankstown's bustling food precinct into a two-day feast packed with global street food and a packed program of cultural performances, live entertainment and cooking demos. If you've never hit this foodie haven before, consider this your sign: the beloved annual festival is one of the tastiest ways to eat your way around the world without leaving Sydney.
The festivities will kick off on Friday, July 24 (5pm-9pm), with Griffith Park turning into a festive winter night market complete with sizzling street food, live music and roaring fire pits to keep you cosy.
Then on Saturday, July 25 (noon-6pm), the festival will ramp things up with more than 60 food stalls, fresh produce markets, kids' workshops, cultural performances and guided Bites Food Tours, which showcase some of Bankstown's most legendary eateries.
This year's food line-up includes everything from La Booza, the cult Lebanese gelato makers who famously operate out of a Punchbowl petrol station, to indulgent steak rice bowls from Wagyu Blacks and wildly customisable sweet treats from Popsok Popcorn.
Home cooks can also pick up a few tricks from TV favourite Courtney Roulston (host of Farm to Fork and MasterChef Australia All-Stars contestant), who'll be serving up live cooking demonstrations celebrating Western Sydney's multicultural flavours. Fire up your barbecue game too, with a BBQ masterclass led by pitmaster Ben Farley, founder of BBQ Cooking School.
The biggest addition for 2026 is the brand-new Bankstown Dinner Crawl on July 22. This exclusive ticketed experience takes diners behind the scenes at three of Bankstown's standout restaurants – Tokyo Samba, Titanic Restaurant & Cafe and Volcanos Steakhouse – for an evening of signature dishes, stories and flavours that showcase the area's diverse dining scene.
Want to make a week of it? The celebrations also include pre-festival food tours through Greenacre (July 8), Panania (July 9) and Campsie (July 15), offering even more opportunities to discover some of Western Sydney's best local eats.
Keen? You can find out more over here.
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