Find a Foodie is an opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to be part of this 'best in class' dining revolution and receive an incredible package of support and guidance from leading industry figures to help make someone's dreams a reality.

The aim of Find A Foodie is to discover an entrepreneur, an individual or a team with an enterprising idea, a signature dish or an innovative product, created at home or already trading on a small scale, and helping them bring it to a bigger audience at Queen St.

It takes creativity, skills, drive and determination to take a kitchen table idea and turn it into a business. Queen St's Find a Foodie provides a route, that vital next step, to help a budding foodie to realise their ambitions, with specialist support and guidance along the way.

Queen St are working with the Express & Echo on the search to Find a Foodie. Fledgling foodies are invited to register their interest in this opportunity to showcase their culinary skills via this website click here to enter the competition. We need details on your product, dish or innovative food related enterprise.

Entrants will be shortlisted by an especially selected expert panel, made up of business and food industry judges. Those selected will be invited to showcase their menus and products and compete against other entrants during the summer at the Queen St Street Food Markets. where the general public will get to vote for their favourites in a taste test round.

The winner will then receive the life changing opportunity to trade for 3 month's free of charge, with expert advice and support from business mentors, marketing and branding, legal and finance and overall promotion of the Queen St dining quarter.