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It's National BBQ Week 2026
celebrating 30 years of
Better BBQ & Gastro-grilling
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May 25th - 31st

This year's 30th National BBQ Week offers all the best Barbi facts, tips, advice & recipes to help you celebrate all the fun and enjoyment of BBQ & eating alfresco!

National BBQ Week returns for a record-breaking 30th time this year, bringing you all the very best in brilliant Barbi Tips, Advice, Recipes + BBQ Facts & Legends of the Grill and so much more, right here, in fact everything you’ll ever need to know about BBQ’ing to help get the best from your Barbi summer – Enjoy! And the 25th Gastro Alfresco event starts Monday June 8nd where you can find lots of alfresco eating & entertaining tips, advice & recipes: gastro-alfresco.co.uk

It’s the third day!

Today’s Gorgeous Gastro-grilling recipe
We’ll be featuring one of our favourite BBQ recipes every day, and today that's...
Brilliant Beef & Guacamole Foodie Fajitas

Brilliant Beef & Guacamole Foodie Fajitas

Who said Fajitas were simple ‘street-food’, this is a ‘foodie-twist’ on a Mexican staple. The combination of piquant steak, spicy, fruity flavours balanced by a sharp creamy, cheesy taste remind me of Tequila fuelled night on the beach in the Baya.

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BIG money-saving BBQ hacks & recipes

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BBQ's - Then & Now!

Find out how BBQ’s have changed over the years.

BBQ history from 'the 50's to today!
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Today’s Better BBQ Advice

Here’s some great Top Barbi Tips & Advice on how to be a Better BBQ’er...

BBQ Advice No. 7
It's all Peer Presure!

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The ever-growing sophistication of BBQ food is probably the result of pressure from foodie friends and family to continually be able to offer an ever-wider choice of tantalisingly healthy and different food. Another factor being most food looks great straight off the Barbi, with today’s grills being so much more user friendly.

Top BBQ Facts

Here are some brilliant Barbi tips to help you get the very best out of your BBQ and alfresco eating & entertaining this summer!

BBQ Fact No. 2
We 're No.1 BBQ nation again!

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In 2025 and due to the hot summer and heatwaves, the UK regained its No.1 European BBQ nation status, overtaking  Germany who were pushed into second place. So, we managed to host around 155 million Barbi’s. 

Legends of the Grill?

Here are some of the most surprising and possibly (un)believable BBQ stories that we’ve come across over the years…

Legend No.7 - Scariest ever BBQ meal!

Grizzlies are a common problem in the Canadian Rockies, so it was perhaps no surprise that a Hunting party’s Barbi held in a remote part of the Banff national park in the Spring of 2018 was invaded by two Grizzly bears who ate most of the food before departing after one of the bears unfortunately toasted their paws on the fire!

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