'Disheartening': ACT businesses lose out on Enlighten spots to interstate options

Miss Van's owner Andrew Duong was a vendor at last year's Canberra-based street food festival at The Forage at Enlighten. Picture by Keegan Carroll

Canberra businesses are worried they are being forgotten after a local street food festival was not renewed for this year's Enlighten Festival, and instead replaced by interstate food vendors.

Canberra-based street food festival The Forage, part of Enlighten Festival last year for the first time, was unsuccessful in its application to be part of the event again this year.