{"id":265432,"date":"2026-08-14T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:50:11","slug":"ice-cream-festival-returns-to-reading-terminal-market-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265432\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream Festival returns to Reading Terminal Market \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ice cream fans get ready &#8211; Reading Terminal Market&#8217;s Ice Cream Festival returns to Philadelphia for another year.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival on 12th and Filbert returns for another year on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This festival is free-to-attend and pay-as-you-go, offering frozen treats from vendors like Bassetts Ice Cream.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the market will be ice cream-themed treats Philly favorites, and ice cream specials. There will be additional entertainment and activities &#8211; like balloon twisting face paint, arts and crafts, and a live DJ.<\/p>\n<p>On Filbert Street, a 3-part ice cream contest will take place. The first contest will begin at 12:30 p.m., the second contest will begin at 1:45 p.m., and the third will begin at 3 p.m. Reading Terminal&#8217;s mascot Philbert will also make an appearance. <\/p>\n<p>Vendors at the festival include:<\/p>\n<p>The event is rain or shine and will be under cover on the 1000 block of Filbert Street, as well as throughout the Market.<\/p>\n<p>For the most up to date information and a map of the festival, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/readingterminalmarket.org\/event\/ice-cream-festival-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/readingterminalmarket.org\/event\/ice-cream-festival-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reading Terminal Market website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ice cream fans get ready &#8211; Reading Terminal Market&#8217;s Ice Cream Festival returns to Philadelphia for another year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-265432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}