Eat & Shop

Food Glorious Food

The show is a great place for people to get better acquainted with their taste buds. Hundreds of quality meals and snack food choices on offer. Don't forget all those yummy treats in showbags. Just remember to enjoy sweets in moderation

To help you make that healthier choice, food vendors around the grounds will display a list of ‘Good Food Good Fun’ menu items that are lower in salt and fat.

Hearty Choice Food Court (Map Ref C4)

The Hearty Choice Food Court offers a variety of healthier foods including pancakes, smoothies and baked potatoes. There is also Turkish, Spanish, Lebanese, Chinese and German food on offer from a variety of vendors including: Henry’s Chinese Kitchen, Coffee Malters, Jo’s OJ, Kalayance Thai, King Korn, Rotary Club of Canberra East (Inc.), The German Kitchen, Traditional Baked Potato Co, Traditional Turkish Gozleme and Cart De Coffee.

Food With A View (Map Ref D4)

For when you’re looking to chow down without missing the action on the Main Arena, try Pizza2U and other yummy food choices!

Happy Healthy Show Tips

 The ActewAGL Royal Canberra Show wants everybody to have a happy healthy Show by following these great tips.

• Wear some walking shoes:  With so much to see, you’re gonna be doing a lot of walking at the Show!  Walking is fantastic physical activity.  Keep it up when you leave and ‘Be Active for Life’.
• Slip, Slop, Slap!  Remember to be SunSmart during the Show and wear your hat, sunscreen and light, long-sleeved shirts.  Free sunscreen will be available at the information tents and the Cancer Council of ACT in the Harvest Hall.
• Shoes are essential: When entering the horse and large animal area. 
• Enjoy the fresh air! A reminder that all pavilions and covered animal enclosures are SmokeFree areas. The Main Arena Grandstand is also a designated outdoor SmokeFree area.
• Keep your fluids up: Bring a water bottle from home and re-fill for FREE with the water stations provided by Tap into Water!  

Safety Around Animals

Although many animals are domesticated, they can cause injury and should be treated with caution. The size and bulk of some animals can make them potentially dangerous.

Please advise young children the following.

• Do not make any sudden movements or loud noises. This may startle the animals.
• Do not poke, tease or copy the sound any animal makes.
• Only touch animals if the owner is present and give his or her permission.
• Do not stand behind the animals.
• Quietly speak to the animal as you approach to avoid frightening the animal.
• Move slowly in single file when around animals. Cows can see nearly 360 degrees without moving their heads. A quick movement from behind is just as likely to frighten them as a movement from the front.
• Allow enough space between yourself and the animals to avoid being stepped on, kicked or bitten.
• Be extra careful around small newborn animals. Adult females are more aggressive when protecting their young.
• Touch animals gently. Do not push or shove.
• Very young children, particularly in prams, should not be moved close to an animal and the child should not be encouraged to pat.
• Wash hands after stroking animals.

Harvest Hall (Map Ref F7)

If you can cook it, carve it, grow it or bake it, you will probably find it in Harvest Hall. Harvest Hall features hundreds of competition entries from bread to cakes to carrots to pumpkins. Entries in flowers, cookery, jams and spreads, garden produce and lavender will be on show plus there will also be a display of bees and olive oil.A regular and very popular feature of the Harvest Hall will be the Woolworths Fresh Produce Display, a magnificent picture scene made entirely of fresh fruit and vegetables plus grains, rice and wool.

Some sections, such as cookery, garden produce and horticulture, are still open for entry and students are encouraged to enter. For schedule and entry forms, please find them all here.

Let’s Go Shopping!!

Whether you’re after a new peice of artwork, clothing, jewellery or even a spa, the ActewAGL Royal Canberra Show is a shopper’s paradise. It’s like a Home Show, a Leisure Show and a good old fashioned Market all rolled into one!

We’ve got over 100 trade stands in the Leisure and Lifestyle Building alone - Building B (Map Ref A5) and around the grounds you’ll find everything on sale from hair extensions to hand cream, ironing board covers to dirt bikes and the list goes on with literally hundreds of exhibitors selling their products across the show.