Fremont Burger and Brew Fest

The Fremont Burger, Brew & Bourbon Fest will not go ahead on Saturday, May 30, after the Fremont Chamber of Commerce posted cancellation notices on the festival’s website and registration pages. The event had been advertised as the 10th annual edition of the downtown Fremont food-and-drink festival, with burgers, craft brews, spirits and live entertainment. Event listings and chamber pages had said the festival was scheduled for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Fremont. The cancellation means a Bay Area event promoted as a start-of-summer gathering will not take place as planned. ### Was the festival actually scheduled for May 30 in Fremont? Saturday, May 30, 2026, was the published date across multiple event listings tied to the Fremont festival. An Eventbrite page for the 2026 Fremont Burger, Brew, & Bourbon Fest listed the event for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown Fremont, and a chamber event-calendar listing described it as the 10th year of the festival. (burgerandbrewfest.com) The festival’s own website also promoted a Fremont Burger and Brew Festival built around burgers, craft brews and live music. A separate chamber registration page said the event had been created to showcase craft breweries and distilleries in Northern California and attract large crowds from across the region. ### What do the cancellation notices say? The Fremont Chamber of Commerce said on the festival website that the 2026 Fremont Burger, Brew, & Bourbon Fest “has been cancelled.” A chamber registration page carries a matching notice under a release that says the chamber made the “difficult but necessary decision” to cancel the 2026 event. (eventbrite.com) Fremont, California, is identified in that notice as the host city for the event the chamber said had long served as a community gathering around local restaurants, businesses and residents. (burgerandbrewfest.com) The available search results do not state a detailed reason for the cancellation beyond the chamber’s description of the decision as necessary. ### What had organizers planned before the cancellation? The 10th annual edition had been marketed as a day of burger sampling, craft brews, premium spirits, vendors and live entertainment. A Tri-City Voice item published in March said the festival would return on May 30 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and called it one of the region’s anticipated food competitions, with participation applications open through April 1. (fremontchamberofcommerceca.growthzoneapp.com) Another event listing said the program would include a “Burger Throwdown” cooking competition and no general admission fee, with paid tasting options available for alcohol sampling. That description appeared on third-party event pages and matched the broader format described on chamber-linked materials. ### Who was behind the event? (tricityvoice.com) The Fremont Chamber of Commerce was the named organizer on the Eventbrite listing and the chamber-hosted registration pages. The festival website also linked the event to the chamber and to downtown Fremont. Downtown Fremont was the planned setting for the event, continuing a format used in earlier years. (stayhappening.com) A 2025 local news listing said the prior year’s festival was held around the Downtown Event Center Plaza and Capitol Avenue, offering a guide to the event’s recent footprint even though the 2026 festival is now off. ### Where should attendees look now? (eventbrite.com) The festival website and the Fremont Chamber of Commerce registration pages are the clearest places to check the event’s status because both now display cancellation notices. The California festival guide that surfaced the event remains a directory listing, but the organizer-controlled pages carry the latest update. May 30, 2026, remains the date that had been advertised for the 10th annual festival, but the chamber’s posted notices indicate it will not take place on that schedule. (svdaily.com) Any further update on refunds, rescheduling or replacement programming would most likely appear first on the chamber-linked event pages. (fremontchamberofcommerceca.growthzoneapp.com) (burgerandbrewfest.com)