MEATOPIA ON-FIRE GLASGOW –
GLASGOW’S FIRST LIVE-FIRE FOOD FESTIVAL
In June 2025 the first Meatopia in the much loved and historic city of Glasgow brought 6000 people together with 40 chefs, top DJs and eclectic bands for a 3 day bacchanalian weekend of fire, food and fun. For over a decade Meatopia has been at the forefront of UK fire cooking culture, bringing over 400 chefs to London and Dublin to cook extraordinary dishes using ethically and responsibly sourced ingredients and fuel. And in 2026 we’re returning to Glasgow to do it all again!
Meatopia features the very best live-fire chefs from UK, Europe and the World, all cooking over wood or charcoal and serving one carefully curated dish each. The Meatopia menu is served up alongside frosty drinks and sound-scaped by amazing bands and banging DJ’s. Meatopia is the only food festival that scours the world for chefs to invite, and insists on only ethically sourced meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables and sustainably produced wood and charcoal.
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Meatopia On-Fire Glasgow | SWG3 Glasgow
Meatopia London has become one of the best known London food festivals, and a legendary event for food and fire-cooking lovers. Founded in the US by the late, great Josh Ozersky and brought to the UK by a group of passionate food enthusiasts, Meatopia is a weekend-long love affair with food, drink, fire and music.
Each year, we gather more than 60 of the world’s best live-fire chefs from all corners of the world to each cook an exclusive dish over sustainably-sourced wood and charcoal. We stand for conscious sourcing: only high quality, responsibly sourced ingredients (that means meat, fish and veg) make it onto the Meatopia menu, which is painstakingly put together over the course of the year with countless chef tasting sessions and refinements made to each and every item on the menu.
The Meatopia experience is built on four pillars
EAT 🔪
Each year the world’s best live-fire chefs cooked exclusive dishes over each of the Meatopia weekends, using nothing but sustainable wood and charcoal and responsibly-sourced, quality ingredients — that means meat, fish and veg. Our alumni of chefs include Francis Mallmann, Niklas Ekstedt, Amninder Sandhu, Yotam Ottolenghi, Dave Pynt, Aaron Franklin, Fergus Henderson, Bryan Furman, and Lennox Hastie.
DRINK 🍻
All that smokey, flavour-filled food is thirsty work. Luckily for you, Meatopia has a mind-boggling array of quenching beverages on offer. Think sinking a few sundowners in the yard, all manner of spirits, cocktails and liquid delights are on offer.
FIRE 🔥
The finest, most sustainably sourced wood and charcoal is the star of the show at Meatopia, so gather around the fire and let your inner cave-person be mesmerised by it. From simple grills to imposing smokers and roaring fire-pits, every method of fire cooking imaginable is on show at Meatopia, and at the helm of the flames are some of the world’s most skilled chefs.
MUSIC 🎺
Live musicians, roaming brass bands, DJs and soulful singers can be found in every corner of the festival, and a crowd to go with them. We’ve had everyone from infamous party-starters New York Brass Band to legendary last-man-standing Bez of the Happy Mondays play to our punters, keeping the good vibes going through day and night.
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