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Editor's picks
Oktoberfest ★ 4.9
Oktoberfest, the world's largest folk festival, has run on Munich's Theresienwiese since 1810; six brewery tents pour 6 million litres of beer over 16 days.
Festa del Redentore ★ 4.9
Festa del Redentore is Venice's most-loved celebration, marking the end of the 1576 plague with a votive bridge to Giudecca and a Saturday-night fireworks.
Gion Matsuri ★ 4.9
Japan's most famous festival, July in Kyoto since 869. Yamaboko Junko float parades July 17 and 24; yoiyama evenings of yatai food stalls in Nakagyo nights.
La Braderie de Lille ★ 4.9
The Braderie takes over every street in Lille on the first weekend of September, 33 hours of flea market and moules-frites, with restaurants piling shells outside.
Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival ★ 4.9
The Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival, the world's longest running oyster festival, fills the Claddagh each September with shucking championships and a seafood trail.
Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco d'Alba ★ 4.9
The Alba White Truffle Fair runs weekends from Oct 10 to Dec 6, 2026, an hour south of Turin. World Truffle Market in Cortile della Maddalena, Alba.
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Hanal Pixán (Festival de las Ánimas) ★ 4.9
Hanal Pixán in Mérida is the Yucatán Day of the Dead, October 31 to November 2 with mucbipollo, the Paseo de las Ánimas candlelight walk and the giant Plaza.
Guelaguetza ★ 4.9
Guelaguetza is Oaxaca's headline festival: indigenous dance from the eight regions, food fairs and the Feria del Mezcal across two Lunes del Cerro Mondays.
Dia de Muertos ★ 4.9
Dia de Muertos in Oaxaca runs October 28 to November 4, with the Xoxocotlan panteon vigil October 31, comparsas downtown and pan de muerto on every comedor.
St. Martin's Day (Imieniny Ulicy Świętego Marcina) ★ 4.9
St. Martin's Day in Poznań is the city's biggest food festival, with a costumed parade down Święty Marcin street to the Imperial Castle on 11 November.
Festival de los Patios de Córdoba ★ 4.9
Córdoba opens more than fifty private courtyards to the street for a fortnight every May, a UNESCO-listed festival with neighbourhood bars pouring Montilla-Moriles beside the geraniums.
Las Fallas ★ 4.9
Las Fallas in Valencia (UNESCO World Heritage) runs March 15-19 with 400-plus fallas sculptures across the city, bunyols stalls and street-paella culture.
Minnesota State Fair ★ 4.9
The Minnesota State Fair runs twelve days ending Labor Day, 26 August to 6 September 2027, at the Fairgrounds in Falcon Heights, with an official New Foods list and specialty sips.
Sarajevo Film Festival ★ 4.8
Sarajevo Film Festival runs Sarajevo's biggest week each August, with open-air screenings around the National Theatre and pop-up food across Bascarsija.
Festival of Delights ★ 4.8
Europe's largest open-air food festival for fine food and wine enthusiasts, held annually in late July on the Rhine bank near the Chocolate Museum.
Festino di Santa Rosalia ★ 4.8
The Festino di Santa Rosalia on 14 to 15 July in Palermo is the city's 400-year-old patron-saint festival, with street food stalls, babbaluci snails.
Hakata Gion Yamakasa ★ 4.8
Hakata Gion Yamakasa runs July 1 to 15 every year with a climax race at 04:59 on July 15. One-ton kazariyamakasa floats parade Hakata, food carts fill.
Festival TREK ★ 4.8
Festival TREK opens its touring season in Rotterdam's Vroesenpark in May: four free days of food trucks and mobile kitchens serving crepes, poffertjes, dim sum, burgers and vegan dishes.
São João do Porto ★ 4.8
São João do Porto on the night of 23 June is the city's biggest street party, with grilled sardines, caldo verde, plastic hammers and a midnight fireworks show over the Douro.
Belgrade Beer Fest ★ 4.8
Belgrade Beer Fest is one of Southeast Europe's largest beer festivals, held over five days in late August at Usce Park where the Sava meets the Danube.
Feria de Abril ★ 4.8
Feria de Abril at the Real de la Feria in Seville's Los Remedios is the city's largest annual fair, with more than 1,000 casetas (hospitality tents) serving.
Phuket Vegetarian Festival ★ 4.8
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival fills Ranong Road with yellow-flagged jay stalls for nine days: no meat, dairy, eggs, garlic or onion, served beside dawn shrine processions.
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta ★ 4.8
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta at Balloon Fiesta Park each October is the world's largest hot air balloon festival.
Greek Festival ★ 4.8
The Greek Festival at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral on 19th Street South Birmingham runs every October with the canonical Greek food.
National Buffalo Wing Festival ★ 4.8
The National Buffalo Wing Festival at Sahlen Field brings 60+ wing vendors serving over 30 tons of chicken wings, a Buffalo tradition since 2002.
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati ★ 4.8
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati at Sawyer Point and Yeatman's Cove on the Cincinnati riverfront is the German-American festival every September, with bratwurst.
Feast of the Assumption ★ 4.8
Feast of the Assumption on Mayfield Road in Little Italy, the four-day Holy Rosary church festival since 1898 honoring the Assumption of Mary.
State Fair of Texas ★ 4.8
America's longest-running state fair: 2.5 million visitors, 200+ food vendors, Big Tex Choice Awards, Fletcher's Corny Dogs, and Texas BBQ at Fair Park each.
Iowa State Fair ★ 4.8
The Iowa State Fair in Des Moines runs 12 to 22 August 2027 and draws more than a million fairgoers, with a record 1,218,834 visitors in 2026.
Kentucky Derby Festival ★ 4.8
Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville runs five weeks of events from late March through the last day of April, leading into the Kentucky Derby on the first.
Summerfest ★ 4.8
Summerfest, on the Maier Festival Park lakefront since 1968, is the world's largest music festival, with three June-July weekends, 800+ performances and food.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ★ 4.8
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival runs two long weekends at the Fair Grounds Race Course, with over 200 food offerings from long-standing Louisiana vendors beside the music stages.
Mardi Gras ★ 4.8
Mardi Gras in New Orleans runs from Twelfth Night (January 6) through Fat Tuesday, with king cake on every bakery counter, krewe parades, throws.
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival ★ 4.7
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival runs every March across the CBD and inner suburbs: World's Longest Lunch, masterclasses, restaurant pop-ups.
Bascarsijske Noci ★ 4.7
Bascarsijske Noci runs through July in Sarajevo's Ottoman quarter, with music, theatre and food stalls every evening since 1996 across Bascarsija.
Christkindelsmarik ★ 4.7
Strasbourg's Christkindelsmarik, held since 1570, fills the old town from late November with mulled wine, bredele, pain d'epices and grilled sausage.
Vinitaly ★ 4.7
Vinitaly is Italy's largest professional wine fair, running 12 to 15 April 2026 at Veronafiere with 4,000 exhibitors, 97,000 visitors and 32,000.
La Merce ★ 4.7
La Merce is Barcelona's flagship Patron Saint festival around 24 September: open-air calçotada stands, vermouth stations and the human tower competitions.
Sant Sebastià ★ 4.7
Sant Sebastià is Palma's own patron festival, and on the night of 19 January the squares fill with bonfires, concerts and grills loaded with sobrassada and botifarró sausage.
Loy Krathong and Yi Peng ★ 4.7
Chiang Mai's great November festival floats krathong on the Ping and lanterns into the sky, with walking-street stalls piling up khanom and grilled snacks.
Notting Hill Carnival ★ 4.7
Notting Hill Carnival in west London, trading since 1966 over the August bank holiday weekend, fills 50 blocks with Caribbean street food, sound systems.
Taste of Buffalo ★ 4.7
Taste of Buffalo at Niagara Square in mid-July is one of America's largest two-day food festivals, with 50+ Western New York restaurants and free admission.
Taste of Cincinnati ★ 4.7
Taste of Cincinnati on Fifth Street downtown is the city's biggest food festival since 1979, running every Memorial Day weekend, claimed.
Cleveland Asian Festival ★ 4.7
Cleveland Asian Festival in AsiaTown each May, the free pan-Asian community festival with food vendors, dance and culture, anchors the Asian food calendar.
Columbus Italian Festival ★ 4.7
The Columbus Italian Festival at St. John the Baptist on East Lincoln Street in Italian Village runs the second weekend of October, with Italian food.
euphoria ★ 4.7
euphoria runs four days every September in downtown Greenville: Michelin-recognised chefs cook multi-course dinners, wine seminars, music. Founded 2006.
Big Ears Festival ★ 4.7
Big Ears Festival across downtown Knoxville, the spring music-arts-and-food festival drawing 35,000 attendees, runs 250+ performances and food at venues.
Wisconsin State Fair ★ 4.7
The Wisconsin State Fair runs 5 to 15 August 2027 at State Fair Park in West Allis, near Milwaukee, famous for its Original Cream Puffs and fair food.
French Quarter Festival ★ 4.7
French Quarter Festival, run by French Quarter Festivals, Inc., fills the Vieux Carre with free music and local New Orleans food from 8 to 11 April 2027.
EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival ★ 4.7
EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival runs 27 August to 21 November 2026 with festival-exclusive Global Marketplace kiosks, the Eat to the Beat concert series and cheese-themed activities.
All Souls Procession ★ 4.7
All Souls Procession in November is Tucson's Day of the Dead community walk, with pan de muerto, food trucks at the Mercado finale and the burning of the urn.
Winter Wonders (Plaisirs d'Hiver) ★ 4.6
Brussels strings its Christmas market from the Grand-Place to the Marché aux Poissons, more than 200 chalets of hot drinks, festive food and gifts, with an ice rink and a big wheel at the north end.
Gentse Feesten ★ 4.6
Ghent's ten-day city festival in July fills every square and alley with open-air food stalls, pop-up bars and street food from Belgian and world cuisines.
Festival do Japão ★ 4.6
Kenren's Festival do Japão fills São Paulo Expo every July with dishes from all 47 Japanese provinces, plus taiko, ikebana and tea-ceremony demonstrations.
Taste of the Danforth ★ 4.6
Taste of the Danforth closes Danforth Avenue between Broadview and Pape for a Greek-and-multicultural street festival; the 2026 edition returns August 7 to 9.
Tallinn Christmas Market ★ 4.6
Tallinn Christmas Market on Town Hall Square runs late November through early January, with verivorst, hapukapsas and gluhwine huts under the medieval.
Fete des Lumieres ★ 4.6
Fete des Lumieres in Lyon is the four-night light festival around the December 8 Marian feast day, with vin chaud, hot chestnut and bugnes carts citywide.
Lyon Street Food Festival ★ 4.6
Lyon Street Food Festival at Les Grandes Locos in La Mulatiere runs four days each June with 200+ culinary creations from 20 nationalities and 60 concerts.
Museumsuferfest ★ 4.6
Museumsuferfest turns both banks of the Main into one of Europe's biggest culture festivals, with food stalls from around the world on both banks.
Cheung Chau Bun Festival ★ 4.6
Cheung Chau Bun Festival runs on Cheung Chau Island around Buddha's Birthday in May, with the Piu Sik parade on the day itself and the famous 20 metre bun tower scramble at midnight that night.
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival ★ 4.6
Mumbai's biggest cultural festival spans late January into early February, taking over the Kala Ghoda district for nine days.
Saijo Sake Matsuri ★ 4.6
Saijo's sake festival takes over the brewery district in Higashihiroshima each October, pouring several hundred labels from across Japan among the brick chimneys.
Sapporo Snow Festival ★ 4.6
Eight days of snow sculptures across three venues with food street stalls of hot ramen, grilled corn, jingisukan bites and Sapporo Brewery taps drawing eight.
Kanda Matsuri ★ 4.6
Kanda Matsuri in Tokyo's Kanda Shrine is one of Japan's three great Shinto festivals, biennial on odd years. 100 mikoshi parade Akihabara and Nihombashi.
Nine Emperor Gods Festival ★ 4.6
For nine days each ninth lunar month, hundreds of Penang hawker stalls hang yellow flags and go vegetarian, from mock-meat nasi kandar to char kway teow.
Eid al-Fitr ★ 4.6
Marrakech's Eid al-Fitr ends Ramadan with the sweet pastries holiday: family couscous lunch, sellou almond paste, kaab el ghazal cornes de gazelle.
Eid al-Adha ★ 4.6
Eid al-Adha, marked in Morocco on 27 to 30 May 2026, centres on the family lamb sacrifice, and in Marrakech households share roast lamb, mechoui among the dishes.
Pasifika Festival ★ 4.6
Pasifika Festival is Auckland's annual Pacific Islander culture festival at Western Springs Park. 11 island village zones each with food, dance and craft.
Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej (Jewish Culture Festival) ★ 4.6
The Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków's Kazimierz runs each summer with concerts, lectures, workshops, Shabbat-themed events and food programming.
Aste Nagusia (Bilbao Semana Grande) ★ 4.6
Aste Nagusia in Bilbao runs nine days from late August, the city's biggest festival with txosna stalls and gastronomic competitions on El Arenal.
Feria del Corpus Christi ★ 4.6
Feria del Corpus in Granada runs May 30 to June 6, 2026 with the citys main fair, casetas plating Granadina tapas and the Tarasca parade on June 3.
Semana Santa Sevilla ★ 4.6
Semana Santa in Seville is the city's Holy Week with 60 cofradias and a torrija-and-pestinos tradition across centro patisseries, with the Sabado Santa.
Way Out West ★ 4.6
Way Out West is a three-day music festival in Slottsskogen park, Gothenburg, with a vegetarian food offering and a Stay Out West club programme across the city at night.
Smaka på Stockholm ★ 4.6
Smaka på Stockholm at Kungsträdgården in Stockholm is the city's biggest food festival; dozens of restaurant stands and a five-day run in early June.
Songkran ★ 4.6
Thailand's April new-year water festival is wildest around the Chiang Mai moat, where vendors set up early with grilled meats, eggs on a stick and drinks.
Ramadan Street Food Festival ★ 4.6
The Ramadan Street Food Festival turns Al Karama's Sheikh Hamdan Colony and Karama Park into an open kitchen for the fasting month, 100 restaurants serving from iftar to 02:00, dishes from AED 5.
Fur Rondy (Anchorage Fur Rendezvous) ★ 4.6
Fur Rondy is Anchorage's eleven-day winter festival, 25 February to 7 March 2027, with sled dog racing, the Grand Parade, the Running of the Reindeer and a Rondy Brew IPA made for the festival.
Concert of Colors ★ 4.6
Concert of Colors in July brings international food and free music to Detroit's Midtown. Detroit's biggest free multicultural fair, ethnic food trucks.
Indiana State Fair ★ 4.6
The Indiana State Fair on East 38th Street, Indianapolis runs August 7 to August 23, 2026. A reliable Indianapolis pick.
Bastille Days ★ 4.6
Bastille Days at Cathedral Square Park on North Jefferson Street downtown is a free four-day French festival in mid-July with crepes, French wine.
Picklesburgh ★ 4.6
Picklesburgh takes over Pittsburgh's Sister Bridges each July, a free festival built around pickles. A giant flying Heinz pickle balloon, vendors and pickled.
Feast Portland ★ 4.6
Portland's flagship food festival every September, four days of cooking demos, themed dinners, the Night Market and the Smoked! outdoor BBQ event downtown.
Maine Lobster Festival (Rockland) ★ 4.6
Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland, 75 minutes northeast of Portland, runs Wednesday to Sunday over the first full weekend of August, five days at Harbor Park.
Salt Lake Greek Festival ★ 4.6
Salt Lake Greek Festival at Holy Trinity Cathedral, the largest Greek festival west of the Mississippi and Utah's second-largest cultural festival.
Burning of Zozobra ★ 4.6
Old Man Gloom has burned annually since 1924; the 50-foot marionette goes up at Fort Marcy with food vendors lining the field and 60,000 watching live.
National Cherry Blossom Festival ★ 4.6
The National Cherry Blossom Festival, 20 March to 11 April 2027, surrounds the Tidal Basin with BloomFest, the Parade, Petalpalooza and a season of art, music and food.
Eat Festival ★ 4.5
Eat Festival in Brussels takes over the Gare Maritime at Tour and Taxis each September on a Thursday-to-Sunday long weekend. Brussels chefs.
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.
Roncesvalles Polish Festival ★ 4.5
Roncesvalles Polish Festival closes Roncesvalles Avenue for North America's largest Polish cultural celebration; the 20th edition runs September 19 to 20.
Festival of Embassies ★ 4.5
The Festival of Embassies returns to Vitezne namesti each June, the largest international street-food event in Prague with nearly 50 embassies serving.
Les Rendez-vous de l'Erdre ★ 4.5
Les Rendez-vous de l'Erdre is Nantes's free jazz and boating festival, with restaurant villages at Pont Morand, Quai de Versailles and Quai Henri Barbusse, run by associations and local traders.
Salon du Chocolat ★ 4.5
Salon du Chocolat in Paris is the world's largest chocolate trade show, running five days at the Porte de Versailles each autumn. Tastings, the chocolate.
Grüne Soße Festival ★ 4.5
The Grüne Soße Festival crowns Frankfurt's best seven-herb sauce in a week of tasting shows on the Roßmarkt, part contest, part cabaret, judged nightly.
Rheingauer Weinmarkt ★ 4.5
The Rheingauer Weinmarkt, or Rheingau Wine Festival, lines Frankfurt's Freßgass' with over 600 Rheingau wines each September, with winegrowers pouring and nearby restaurants serving food.
Hamburg Hafengeburtstag ★ 4.5
Hamburg Hafengeburtstag in early May is the city's harbour birthday, with three days of Fischbroetchen, beer and food stalls along the Elbe between Hafencity.
Starkbierfest am Nockherberg ★ 4.5
The Starkbierfest at Paulaner am Nockherberg in Munich runs 26 February to 21 March 2027: Salvator strong beer, hearty dishes from Florian Lechner's kitchen, live music and a beer garden.
Lunar New Year ★ 4.5
Lunar New Year in Hong Kong runs for 15 days from New Year's Day, with poon choi banquets, lo hei (yusheng) tossing, nian gao, flower markets and the fireworks over Victoria Harbour on the second day of the new year.
Food and Fun Festival ★ 4.5
Food and Fun pairs international guest chefs with Reykjavik restaurants for five days of exclusive menus built on Icelandic ingredients, the city's flagship.
Aoi Matsuri ★ 4.5
The Hollyhock Festival in Kyoto, dating to the 6th century and held annually May 15, runs a Heian-court procession from the Imperial Palace to Kamo Shrines.
Tori-no-Ichi Asakusa ★ 4.5
Tori-no-Ichi at Tokyo's Otori Shrine Asakusa runs every rooster day of November. Lucky kumade rake stalls, yakitori, yatai food, sake under the lanterns.
Marrakech International Film Festival ★ 4.5
Marrakech International Film Festival's 23rd edition (Nov 20 to 28, 2026) screens 82 films from 31 countries; Place Jemaa el-Fna hosts free outdoor.
Festa da Flor ★ 4.5
Funchal's Flower Festival fills Avenida Arriaga and Avenida do Mar with parades, floral installations and street stalls for around a month from late April, with two allegorical parades on separate May Sundays.
Festa Major de Gracia ★ 4.5
Festa Major de Gracia takes over the streets in Barcelona's Gracia each August: hand-decorated streets compete, every corner becomes an outdoor bar and grill.
Cruces de Mayo ★ 4.5
Neighbourhood associations raise flower-covered crosses in Córdoba's squares and set up temporary bars beside them, serving local tapas and wine for five days around the turn of May.
Fiestas de San Isidro (rosquillas tradition) ★ 4.5
Fiestas de San Isidro, Madrid's patron saint festival around May 15, fills the Pradera de San Isidro with the romeria, chotis, lemonade and rosquillas tontas y listas, plus free concerts at Plaza Mayor and Las Vistillas.
Sant Antoni ★ 4.5
Sant Antoni runs on 16 and 17 January across Mallorca, with bonfires in the streets, demons in the parade and sobrassada and botifarró roasted over the flames.
La Tomatina (Bunol) ★ 4.5
La Tomatina in Bunol 38 km west of Valencia is the world's largest tomato-throwing festival, with 100 metric tons of tomatoes and 20,000 ticketed.
Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival ★ 4.5
Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival, marking the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, takes place at Pingxi Junior High School and Shifen Sky Lantern Square 40 minutes.
St Pauls Carnival ★ 4.5
St Pauls Carnival is Bristol's African Caribbean carnival; its organisers are working towards the return of the street procession in 2027, with jerk, stew and barbecue at its heart.
Alaska State Fair ★ 4.5
Alaska State Fair runs at the Mat-Su Valley fairgrounds in Palmer from late August through early September, with giant cabbage weigh-offs and fair food.
Asian Festival ★ 4.5
The Asian Festival at Franklin Park on East Broad Street draws over 100,000 Memorial Day weekend for food vendors, dragon-boat events and a marketplace.
Cinco de Mayo Festival (Bishop Arts) ★ 4.5
Oak Cliff's largest annual street festival, filling the Bishop Arts District with authentic Mexican food vendors, margarita competitions, live mariachi.
Tour de Fat ★ 4.5
Tour de Fat is New Belgium Brewing's costumed bike parade and beer carnival at its Linden Street campus in Fort Collins, returning 29 August 2026.
Texas Renaissance Festival ★ 4.5
The Texas Renaissance Festival at Todd Mission, northwest of Houston, runs weekends from 10 October to 29 November 2026, plus Thanksgiving Friday, 9 am to 8 pm, with food among the village shops.
Key Lime Festival ★ 4.5
The Key Lime Festival takes over Key West across the July 4th week with a pie-eating championship, a pie hop and a sip-and-stroll, running since 2012.
WorldFest International Festival ★ 4.5
WorldFest in Louisville runs four free days of international food, music and culture on the Belvedere Plaza over Labor Day weekend, the city's premier.
Cooper-Young Festival ★ 4.5
The Cooper-Young Festival in Memphis runs one Saturday each September around Cooper and Young, drawing 130,000 people for food, crafts and live music.
Milwaukee Irish Fest ★ 4.5
Milwaukee Irish Fest at Henry Maier Festival Park in mid-August is the largest Irish festival in the US, with Irish stew, fish and chips, Guinness and 100+.
Oak Street Po-Boy Festival ★ 4.5
The 18th Oak Street Po-Boy Festival takes over Oak Street in New Orleans on Sunday 8 November 2026, with over 100 versions of the po-boy, live music stages and an art market.
Festival of the Arts ★ 4.5
Festival of the Arts is a free 4-day event at Bicentennial Park in Oklahoma City, held since 1967 with 30 local food vendors and 300 live performances.
FEASTIVAL ★ 4.5
FEASTIVAL in Philadelphia is the annual October benefit dinner from Stephen Starr, Audrey Claire and Michael Solomonov, with 70 of the city's best kitchens.
San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival ★ 4.5
San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival each November at Embarcadero Marina Park North, the three-day Icons + Legends, Grand Tasting and Grand Fiesta on San.
Tet Nguyen Dan (Lunar New Year) ★ 4.5
Tet Nguyen Dan, the Lunar New Year, is Vietnam's biggest holiday: Nguyen Hue becomes a flower street and tables fill with banh chung and banh tet, braised pork, candied fruit and pickled scallion heads.
BXLBeerFest ★ 4.4
BXLBeerFest in Brussels brings together independent craft brewers from Belgium and abroad. Two-day festival at Tour and Taxis with around 30 independent.
Carnaval do Rio ★ 4.4
Carnaval do Rio fills Rio de Janeiro with hundreds of street blocos and the Sambódromo parades, fed by thousands of licensed street vendors and 80 stall, food truck and food bike pitches by the Sapucaí.
Festa do Imigrante ★ 4.4
Museu da Imigração's Festa do Imigrante gathers over 40 nationalities for a free weekend of music, dance and gastronomy at the old immigrant hostel, entry by a 1kg food donation.
La Louche d'Or ★ 4.4
La Louche d'Or turns Wazemmes into an open-air dining room every 1 May, a soup contest cooked on the pavement by families, schools and neighbourhood associations.
Street Food Festival ★ 4.4
Street Food Festival from Marseille Provence Gastronomie at the foot of the Cathedrale de la Major runs three evenings on a 6,000 sqm esplanade.
Fete du Citron Menton ★ 4.4
The 93rd Fete du Citron is in Menton, about 35 minutes by train from Nice, from 13 to 28 February 2027, with citrus-covered floats and displays in the Jardins Biovès.
eat! Berlin ★ 4.4
eat! Berlin is an eleven-day gourmet festival in which top chefs from Berlin and beyond cook at exclusive venues across the city, from gala dinners to wine tastings, ending in a closing gala.
Reeperbahn Festival ★ 4.4
Reeperbahn Festival is Hamburg's four-day club music festival and conference around St Pauli; tickets for 2027 are on sale, and the organiser names no food programme.
Münchner Frühlingsfest ★ 4.4
Münchner Frühlingsfest, the smaller spring sister of Oktoberfest on Munich's Theresienwiese, opens the city's folk-festival season; two beer tents.
Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival ★ 4.4
Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival runs at the Central Harbourfront in late October with 300 plus booths of international wine and food, a Grand Wine Pavilion.
Bord Bia Bloom ★ 4.4
Bord Bia Bloom takes over 70 acres of the Phoenix Park across the June bank holiday, with show gardens, a food hall of Irish producers, food trucks and daily chef demonstrations.
St Patrick's Festival ★ 4.4
Ireland's national festival runs five days to 17 March, the parade leaving Parnell Square at noon, with food in the programme including the St Patrick's Long Table dinner in Stoneybatter.
Galway Christmas Market ★ 4.4
Galway Christmas Market fills Eyre Square from early November to 31 December with over 50 wooden chalets selling bratwurst, crêpes, pretzels, mulled wine and beer.
Jidai Matsuri ★ 4.4
Kyoto's Festival of Ages, October 22 each year since 1895. 2,000-strong period-costumed procession from the Imperial Palace to Heian Shrine with food stalls.
Sapporo Odori Beer Garden ★ 4.4
Japan's largest beer garden runs late July through mid-August at Odori Park. 10,000-plus seats divided across five areas by beer brand, one each for Sapporo.
Thaipusam ★ 4.4
Thaipusam sends milk-pot processions from George Town to the Waterfall Hilltop Temple, with food stalls and offerings lining the whole Penang route.
Chinese New Year ★ 4.4
Chinese New Year lights Kek Lok Si with tens of thousands of lamps while Penang's clan houses host reunion dinners and prosperity-toss yee sang.
Fiestas de Octubre ★ 4.4
Fiestas de Octubre in Guadalajara is the month-long October fair at Auditorio Benito Juarez, the largest Jalisco festival with food stands, mariachi.
Rotterdam Food Festival ★ 4.4
A spring food and chef festival on Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam Food Festival brings restaurant talent for outdoor demos, tasting menus, and meet-the-producer.
Polyfest ★ 4.4
Polyfest is the world's largest secondary school Polynesian festival, held over four days at Manukau Sports Bowl, Auckland. Pacific Islander food villages each day.
Dia de la Cancion Criolla ★ 4.4
Dia de la Cancion Criolla on 31 October is Peru's day of criolla music and food, declared in 1944; Lima penas fill with anticuchos and pisco macerados.
Jarmark Bożonarodzeniowy (Christmas Market) ★ 4.4
The Jarmark Bożonarodzeniowy on Kraków's Rynek Główny runs from late November into early January, with 100-plus stalls of grilled oscypek, mulled wine, gingerbread and Polish sweets.
Busan Jagalchi Festival ★ 4.4
The Jagalchi Festival takes over Busan's great fish market each October, live-fish games, free tastings and fireworks along the Nampo waterfront.
Lucia (Lussekatter Saffron Bun Day) ★ 4.4
Lucia on December 13 in Stockholm marks Sweden's mid-winter feast of light with saffron-yellow lussekatter buns, glögg mulled wine and choir processions.
Knabenschiessen ★ 4.4
One of Switzerland's largest folk festivals, three days at Albisguetli over September 12-14, 2026. Funfair, rides, food stands, the shooting competition.
Liwa Dates Festival ★ 4.4
Liwa Dates Festival brings Emirati date farmers to Liwa City, in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra Region, each July for ten days of rutab-harvest competitions; 2026 drew about 80,000 visitors.
Edinburgh Food Festival ★ 4.4
Edinburgh Food Festival in George Square Gardens in Edinburgh, run by Assembly Festival, the annual late-July food festival with chef demonstrations.
London Coffee Festival ★ 4.4
London Coffee Festival at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in east London, trading since 2011, runs four days of specialty coffee tasting.
Meatopia ★ 4.4
Meatopia London is a live-fire festival at Tobacco Dock, 3 to 6 September, where chefs from the UK, Europe and beyond each cook one dish over wood or charcoal.
New Mexico State Fair ★ 4.4
The New Mexico State Fair at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque each September runs 11 days of fair food, Indian tacos, frybread.
Maryland Renaissance Festival ★ 4.4
The second largest Renaissance faire in the country, at Crownsville between Baltimore and Annapolis. Nine weekends of meat pies, turkey legs and five taverns.
Lowell Folk Festival ★ 4.4
Lowell Folk Festival fills Lowell, Massachusetts, for three July days of free music and global food sold by non-profit community groups, with all food profits going back to them.
Fiesta del Sol ★ 4.4
Fiesta del Sol in Chicago is the largest Latino festival in the Midwest, four days in late July across Cermak Road in Pilsen, with food and kids' rides.
Bristol Renaissance Faire ★ 4.4
Nine weekends at Kenosha, on the Wisconsin line an hour north of Chicago. Garlic mushrooms and cheese fritters are the ones people come back for.
Asian Food Fest ★ 4.4
Asian Food Fest at Court Street Plaza in downtown Cincinnati runs two days in late April with 60-plus Pan-Asian restaurants and food trucks, produced by Asianati and the Cincinnati Regional Chamber.
Columbus Arts Festival ★ 4.4
The Columbus Arts Festival fills the downtown riverfront on the second weekend of June with visual arts, music, fashion and food; the 2026 edition ran 12 to 14 June.
Cherry Creek Arts Festival ★ 4.4
Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver is the July 4 weekend art-and-food festival in Cherry Creek North, a 250-artist outdoor market plus a Culinary Arts food.
German Fest Milwaukee ★ 4.4
German Fest at Henry Maier Festival Park in late July is the largest German-heritage festival in the US, with bratwurst, schnitzel, polka and Hofbrau steins.
Minnesota Renaissance Festival ★ 4.4
Minnesota Renaissance Festival in Shakopee runs seven weekends from 22 August to 4 October 2026, with turkey legs, scotch eggs, soup in bread bowls, apple dumplings and specialty meads.
Feast of San Gennaro ★ 4.4
The Feast of San Gennaro fills Mulberry Street in Little Italy for 11 days every September since 1926, 17 to 27 September 2026, with sausage-and-pepper sandwiches, zeppole and cannoli.
Queens Night Market ★ 4.4
Queens Night Market runs Saturday evenings from mid-April to late October at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, with global street food under a $5 to $6 price cap in 2026.
Lebanese Food Festival ★ 4.4
The Lebanese Food Festival at St Anthony Maronite Church runs three days in September. Forty-plus years of Lebanese kibbeh, baklava and dancing on the church.
Rochester Lilac Festival ★ 4.4
Rochester Lilac Festival in Highland Park each May draws over 500,000 attendees for 1,200 lilac bushes, food vendors, and live concerts across 10 free days.
California State Fair ★ 4.4
California State Fair at Cal Expo on Exposition Boulevard, Sacramento, runs mid-July with the state's longest-running food and wine competition.
Florida Strawberry Festival ★ 4.4
The Florida Strawberry Festival runs 4 to 14 March 2027 in Plant City, about 25 miles east of Tampa, an annual fair since 1930 with free entertainment, rides and strawberry treats.
Gasparilla Pirate Festival ★ 4.4
Gasparilla Pirate Festival is Tampa's signature pirate event, when Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla captures the key to the city and parades down Bayshore Boulevard each January.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival ★ 4.4
Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC is the annual cultural festival on the National Mall since 1967, with food stalls themed to the year guests.
Lyon Biere Festival ★ 4.3
Lyon Biere Festival at Le Double Mixte in Villeurbanne runs two days each April with 100 craft breweries from France and Europe, food trucks.
Fete de la Violette ★ 4.3
Fete de la Violette takes over Place du Capitole one February weekend, with violet-themed market stalls, repotting workshops, perfumes, candy and the Poutou.
Tollwood Winter Festival ★ 4.3
Tollwood Winter Festival on Munich's Theresienwiese is the city's alternative Christmas market, with international vegetarian street food and a daily concert.
Gourmet Festival ★ 4.3
The Gourmet Festival at Millenaris Park draws around 100 exhibitors and Hungarian regional producers for four days of tasting in early June.
Dalkey Lobster Festival ★ 4.3
Dalkey turns Castle Street into Cuisine de Dalkey for a weekend each August, with village kitchens serving lobster rolls, mussels, crab claws, oysters, chowder and fish and chips.
SANA Food ★ 4.3
SANA Food is BolognaFiere's trade fair for out-of-home dining and specialised food, 21 to 23 February 2027, with 300 exhibitors and 16,000 professional visitors in 2026.
Festa di San Giovanni ★ 4.3
Festa di San Giovanni in Florence is the city's patron-saint day on June 24, with the historic Calcio Storico final in Piazza Santa Croce and street food.
Festivalfilosofia ★ 4.3
Modena's philosophy festival fills the piazzas with free lectures, and its cucina filosofica programme has restaurants in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo serving eight themed menus of hand-made pasta and local dishes.
Sake Festival Japan ★ 4.3
Sake Festival Japan in Tokyo's Ueno Onshi Park is the city's biggest spring sake tasting. Three days of regional and limited brews, tasting tickets.
Deepavali in Little India ★ 4.3
Deepavali turns Penang's Little India into rows of oil lamps and kolam patterns, with murukku, laddu and gulab jamun stacked at every sweet counter.
Carnaval Mérida ★ 4.3
Carnaval Mérida runs six days along Paseo de Montejo with parade floats, vaquería dances, panucho carts and the city's biggest pre-Lenten street-food fair.
Wereldhavendagen ★ 4.3
The port festival fills the quays along the Nieuwe Maas for three days each September, with food plazas of local and international cooking beside the ships, water shows and a makers market.
Bread Festival (Święto Chleba) ★ 4.3
Bread Festival (Święto Chleba) in Gdańsk, the 31st edition on 25 and 26 July 2026 within St Dominic's Fair, brings ten Pomeranian bakeries, live music and baking competitions.
Tapapies ★ 4.3
Tapapies is the Lavapies tapas route run by the district's merchants' association, 15 editions since 2011; the 2026 edition is cancelled and it is due back in 2027 in a new format.
Culinary Zinema at the San Sebastian Film Festival ★ 4.3
Culinary Zinema at the San Sebastian Film Festival is its food section, run with the Basque Culinary Center: five gastronomy films, each paired with a themed dinner from 22 to 25 September.
Velá de Santa Ana ★ 4.3
Sevilla's oldest street festival fills Triana's Calle Betis and Plaza del Altozano each July with food stalls, pescaito frito, sherry and riverside concerts.
Thai Vegetarian Festival (Jay) ★ 4.3
For nine October days, yellow-flagged jay stalls take over Warorot and the Chinese quarter, serving meat-free curries, mock-meat noodles and vegetable plates.
King Richard's Faire ★ 4.3
New England's longest-running Renaissance faire, in its 45th season, on a wooded site at Carver well south of Boston. Spit-roasted turkey legs are the thing people queue for, and the pubs and taverns are set through the village rather than in one food court.
Carolina Renaissance Festival ★ 4.3
Eight weekends at Huntersville, twenty minutes north of Charlotte, with turkey legs and mead across a 25-acre village and a hundred food and craft stalls.
Taste of Chicago ★ 4.3
Taste of Chicago is the city's flagship food festival in Grant Park each July (2026 returns July 8 to 12 after a NASCAR-related three-year shift).
Pierogi Fest ★ 4.3
Pierogi Fest takes over 119th Street in Whiting, Indiana, southeast of Chicago, on 24 to 26 July 2026: pierogi stands and other food vendors, Mr. Pierogi, the Pierogi Parade, a beer garden and three stages.
Panegyri Greek Festival ★ 4.3
Panegyri Greek Festival at Cincinnati's Holy Trinity-St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church runs late June, with gyros, baklava, dolmades and live Greek music.
Ohio Renaissance Festival ★ 4.3
Nine weekends at Waynesville, halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton. Turkey legs and soup in a bread bowl across a 30-acre Tudor village.
Festival Latino ★ 4.3
Festival Latino in 2026 moves to Columbus Commons and Ohio Theatre on South High Street, the largest Latino festival in Ohio in its 29th year.
Scarborough Renaissance Festival ★ 4.3
Weekends at Waxahachie, forty minutes south of Dallas, from April to Memorial Day. Turkey legs and mead across a 16th-century village with themed weekends throughout.
Colorado Renaissance Festival ★ 4.3
Eight weekends at Larkspur, between Denver and Colorado Springs, with turkey legs and mead in a 16th-century village built under the Front Range foothills.
Dia de los Muertos Celebration ★ 4.3
El Paso's Dia de los Muertos celebration at San Jacinto Plaza and the Downtown Arts District features food vendor stalls with traditional pan de muerto, tamales, atole, calabaza en tacha, and other ancestral Mexican foods alongside altar displays and processions.
Thai New Year Songkran Festival (Thai Town) ★ 4.3
The Songkran Festival closes Hollywood Boulevard through Thai Town for one Sunday in late April, with more than 40 Thai food vendors, a beer garden, cooking demonstrations, Muay Thai and five stages, free to enter.
Smorgasburg ★ 4.3
Smorgasburg runs Saturdays at Marsha P. Johnson State Park on the Williamsburg waterfront, 11am to 6pm in season, part of a Brooklyn and Manhattan food market circuit with 70-plus vendors.
Oklahoma State Fair ★ 4.3
The Oklahoma State Fair in Oklahoma City runs 11 days each September with more than 80 food vendors selling fried classics and annual novelty foods.
Arizona Renaissance Festival ★ 4.3
A 50-acre village at Gold Canyon, an hour east of Phoenix, open weekends from February to April. Turkey legs and mead among the jousting and the artisan stalls.
Rhode Island Seafood Festival ★ 4.3
The 15th annual Rhode Island Seafood Festival lands September 12-13 at India Point Park in Providence. Lobster rolls, chowder, oysters from across the state.
Fiesta San Antonio ★ 4.3
Fiesta San Antonio is the city's eleven-day spring celebration of more than a hundred events, where food booths across town serve anticuchos.
Festival of Nations ★ 4.3
Run by the International Institute of St. Louis, Festival of Nations fills Tower Grove Park on 29 and 30 August 2026 with more than 100 vendors from 80-plus countries, plus performances.
Exposicion Rural (La Rural) ★ 4.2
The annual livestock and agriculture expo, the most important Argentine cattle event of the year. Beef tasting, traditional gaucho food, dairy and grain.
Brisbane Festival ★ 4.2
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.