Food festivals in Thessaloniki worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Thessaloniki worth planning a trip around, by month.
The Thessaloniki Street Food Festival held at HELEXPO every May is the largest street food event in northern Greece. The 8th edition ran May 21-25 2025 with over 25 food kiosks covering Greek regional specialties, international cuisines, and craft drinks. The 2025 edition extended the format to five consecutive days for the first time.
The Wine Show is Greece's largest annual wine trade and consumer fair, held at HELEXPO Thessaloniki every March. Greek wineries from every PDO region exhibit alongside international producers, with professional tastings and masterclasses scheduled across two days. The March 2025 edition featured over 700 labels.
Map of Flavours in November at HELEXPO is a producer-focused food festival highlighting regional Greek gastronomy with an emphasis on protected designation products, artisan producers, and traditional recipes from every Greek region. The Macedonian producers section is the largest at the fair.
Voroina at the Makedonia Palace Hotel is the annual wine-tasting exhibition of the Winemakers of Northern Greece. Held on a single October day, the format brings together producers from across the Naoussa, Amindeon, Goumenissa, and Drama PDOs for a public tasting open to consumers and trade. Ticket includes the tasting glass.
The three-day Naoussa, the City of Wine festival in late January celebrates the Xinomavro grape, Greece's most complex red, with welcome parties at local wine bars, producer tastings and vineyard walks across the Naoussa PDO. A day trip from Thessaloniki sits inside the late-January window.
The Thessaloniki Beer Festival at TIF Helexpo runs across four September days with 30+ beer kiosks and over 150 labels covering lagers, IPAs, stouts, wheats, and pales from Greek microbreweries and international producers. A live music stage and dedicated street-food area extend the format late into the evening.