Montreal en Lumiere ★ 4.5
Montreal en Lumiere is the city's flagship winter festival, filling the Quartier des Spectacles with chef dinners, tastings and the all-night Nuit blanche.
Focus: Quebec gastronomy
Food festivals in Montreal worth planning a trip around, by month.
Festivals through the year
La Poutine Week ★ 4.2
La Poutine Week turns Montreal into a citywide poutine contest each February, with dozens of restaurants competing on wild one-week-only creations.
Focus: Poutine
Mondial de la Biere ★ 4.3
Mondial de la Biere is one of North America's biggest beer festivals, pouring hundreds of beers and ciders from Quebec and abroad across a long weekend.
Focus: Beer
MTLaTABLE ★ 4.2
MTLaTABLE is Montreal's restaurant week, when well over a hundred kitchens across the city offer fixed-price table d'hote menus for lunch, brunch and dinner.
Focus: Restaurant week table d'hote
Bieres et Saveurs de Chambly ★ 4.1
Bieres et Saveurs de Chambly is Quebec's biggest craft-beer festival, gathering over a hundred brewers, cider makers and food producers on the grounds.
Focus: Craft beer and Quebec products
Premiers Vendredis ★ 4.1
Premiers Vendredis, or First Fridays, is Canada's largest food-truck gathering, drawing over forty trucks to the Olympic Park esplanade in Montreal.
Focus: Food trucks and street food
Expo Manger Sante et Vivre Vert ★ 3.9
Expo Manger Sante et Vivre Vert is a large healthy-living fair at the Palais des congres in Montreal, with hundreds of exhibitors, tastings and vendors.
Focus: Healthy and plant-based food
YUL EAT ★ 3.9
YUL EAT is a Montreal gastronomy festival showcasing Quebec chefs, restaurants and food producers over an early-September weekend of tastings and markets.
Focus: Quebec gastronomy and producers