Food Festivals in Brisbane

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Brisbane City Council's 10-day festival of Asian culture, 28 events across 17 suburbs in its 14th year in 2026, from a Benny Lam market-style pop-up at Southside Restaurant to Lunar New Year street food on opening night.

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Buddhist festival at Fo Guang Shan Chung Tian Temple in Priestdale over the May Day long weekend, with dragon and lion dances, tea ceremonies, more than 100 events, a Saturday night laser show and vegetarian feasts.

Queensland's longest-running cultural festival and Australia's largest Greek festival, started in 1976 and drawing up to 50,000 to Musgrave Park over a weekend of Greek food, music and dancing.

Scenic Rim Eat Local Month runs through June an hour from Brisbane, a council-run programme of more than 150 events: long lunches in vineyards and paddocks, farm tours, workshops and the Winter Harvest Festival.

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The Sunshine Coast's 10-day food and drink festival, delivered with Sunshine Coast Council: around 50 events from coast to hinterland, from long lunches and farm tours to a finger lime farm picnic and fire feasts.

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Brisbane Beer Fest is a one-day August festival on the Eatons Hill Hotel lawn with 200-plus beers and ciders, BBQ and smoked meat food trucks, live music and beer competitions.

Queensland's royal show fills the Brisbane Showgrounds for nine days each August: livestock and woodchop by day, EkkaNITES by night, halls of award-winning produce and wine, and the show staple Strawberry Sundae.

Brisbane's flagship spring arts festival turns South Bank's Cultural Forecourt into Festival Village, with food and drink offerings and free and ticketed shows running from first light through to late night.

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Festitalia, first held in 2006 for the 60th anniversary of the Italian Republic, fills the Brisbane Showgrounds for one Sunday in September with Italian food and wine, music, masterclasses and a motoring concorso.

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The Good Food & Wine Show fills the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre for three days in late October with 200 plus exhibitors, Good Eat Street stalls, Cheese Corner, Bakers Alley, wine pavilions and masterclasses.

A touring fair of street food that trends online: 50-plus stalls of cheeseburger burritos, paratha burgers and Dubai bubble waffles, plus DJs, eating contests and funfair rides; Brisbane's first ran 28 to 30 August 2026.