Sizzlefest 2024 - Saturday September 14th

What is Sizzlefest

Socal BBQ Shop & the Sizzleshow are excited to be hosting our 4th unforgettable day of BBQ, Beers, and Live Entertainment from our home in Southampton. Sizzlefest is a partnership between Socal BBQ Shop and Instagram channel The Sizzle Show. Our outdoor event is held at the Socal BBQ Shop in Southampton. It brings the fire food community together with leading outdoor cooking brands for a fun-packed day of demos, tastings, competitions, activations, crowd participation shows and live music.

Sizzlefest’s attendees are primarily BBQ enthusiasts and social media influencers who are active in the UK food scene through Instagram and other platforms. Sponsors and partners of Sizzlefest are offered a unique opportunity to engage with a specific target audience of millions of followers at our event. Heading into its forth year, Sizzlefest is already renowned within the global BBQ scene as one of the UK’s most legitimate networking events. This is because it’s a hands-on interactive showcase where you can get behind the scenes and socialise with the brands and chefs.

The Sizzle Show social media channel was formed during the Covid pandemic by a group of like-minded BBQ enthusiasts. Its ambition was to create informative content around outdoor fire cooking, and over the months its evolved into an interactive hub for the BBQ community. Socal BBQ Shop and Sizzle Show have interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry via our social media live streams, including Tom Gozney of Gozney Pizza, and Johann at Holy Smoke.

It has been an honour to collaborate with some of the biggest BBQ joints in the Texas Monthly top 50 which has helped to raise our international profile and engagement. Elements of this journey have been woven into the fabric of Sizzlefest, bolstering its authenticity and appeal.

Our competitions have given away more than a tonne of charcoal, 40 BBQs, countless YETI products and one electric bike to our growing community of BBQ enthusiasts. Through social media campaigns, Socal BBQ Shop and Sizzle Show have raised £15,000 for numerous charitable causes including mental health, homelessness, suicide prevention, motor neurone disease, nurses and veterans.

To find out more, please get in touch by completing the form or by emailing charles@socal.co.uk