The people behind Porthleven Food Festival will be hoping to recreate some of its success when it launches a sister event in Truro later this year.

Event manager consultancy ILOW, which operates the festival in Porthleven and another at St Ives, will be launching Truro Food Festival on Lemon Quay over long weekend of September 27 to 29.

Managing director Lee Bater said: “This will be a city-wide celebration of Cornish food and drink.

“We’ll be creating a vibrant programme of daytime events as well as music evenings on Lemon Quay. But we’ll also be reaching out beyond that base location with things like a restaurant walking trail and other pop-up events around the city.

“We’d love to hear from local restaurants who’d like to be involved or anyone with content ideas.”

A new website, trurofoodfestival.com, has been set up to allow people wanting to take part to get in touch.

Daytimes will include chef demonstrations, street food stalls, a local produce market and live entertainment. The evenings will then feature a beer and cider festival and live music.

The new festival will be officially opened with a charity benefit gig, with all profits donated to the Trussell Trust, a charity that aims to end hunger and poverty in the UK and supports a network of food banks.

News of the festival comes following the announcement that the Great Cornish Food Festival will no longer take place in Truro, where it has been held annually since 2009.

Ruth Huxley, managing director of Cornwall Food & Drink, which operates the Great Cornish Food Festival, said: “We are delighted to hear that there will be a food festival to plug the gap we have left in Truro’s events calendar through being unable to put the Great Cornish Food Festival on. We wish the team at ILOW all the very best.”

Its arrival in the city has also been welcomed by Truro City Council, with town clerk Roger Gazzard describing it as a chance for Truro to “really embrace our own food festival”, while Truro BID manager Alun Jones said: “This is a great opportunity for local suppliers and businesses to work together providing an exciting event for our visitors and residents to enjoy over a three day period, adding another reason to visit Truro, ‘Our Great little City’.

“We wish Lee and all the team every success with this event.”