Food festivals in Brazil

Festa de San Gennaro has run since 1973 on Rua San Gennaro and Rua Lins in the Mooca, its weekend street stalls serving handmade pasta, focaccia and polenta.

Rio Gastronomia, run by the newspaper O Globo, fills the Jockey Club in Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, with more than 35 restaurants and botecos, chefs' classes, a producers' fair and concerts over three weekends.

São Paulo Restaurant Week runs two four week editions a year, pairing over 180 restaurants around fixed price menus from roughly R$ 60, one of Brazil's longest running dining promotions.

Mondial de la Bière Rio, the Brazilian edition of the Montreal beer festival, takes over the Píer Mauá warehouses in Rio de Janeiro for four days with about 1,500 beers from some 250 breweries.

Rio Restaurant Week runs twice a year in Rio de Janeiro, with 80 to 100 restaurants from Centro to Barra serving fixed three-course menus priced from R$59.90 to R$149.90 for a month.

Comida di Buteco Rio pits more than 150 botecos in Rio de Janeiro, Niterói and the Baixada against each other for a month, each serving one competing petisco at a fixed R$40 while the public votes.

Dia de São Jorge on 23 April brings a dawn Mass and procession in Quintino, and across Rio de Janeiro bars serve feijoada, as black beans are a food of Ogum, the orixá tied to the saint.

Rio Wine and Food Festival spreads ten days of tastings, masterclasses, a sommelier contest and a wine fair across Rio de Janeiro, closing with a weekend of producers' stands at VillageMall in Barra.

São João da Feira de São Cristóvão turns the Centro Luiz Gonzaga in Rio de Janeiro into a June arraial of forró, Northeastern trios, quadrilha dancers and typical festa junina food every weekend.

ACAL volunteers have run the free Tanabata Matsuri street festival on Praça da Liberdade since the 1970s, mixing taiko drumming, cosplay and Japanese food stalls.

Since 1926, Festa de Nossa Senhora Achiropita has filled Bixiga's streets every August weekend with Italian food stalls, wine and a paid cantina benefiting the parish.