Food festivals in Cleveland worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Cleveland worth planning a trip around, by month.
Feast of the Assumption on Mayfield Road in Little Italy, the four-day Holy Rosary church festival since 1898 honoring the Assumption of Mary, runs a Saturday procession plus Italian street food and pasta.
Focus: Italian-American street food, pasta, cassata, cannoli, sausage and peppers
Cleveland Asian Festival in AsiaTown each May, the free pan-Asian community festival with food vendors, dance, cosplay and culture, anchors the city's Asian-American food calendar.
Focus: Pan-Asian street food: dim sum, banh mi, bubble tea, sushi, Thai noodles
Cleveland Garlic Festival at Shaker Square, the largest annual fundraiser for the North Union Farmers Market, runs top-chef grill-offs, an Ohio Cheese Guild tent and live bands on a late-August weekend.
Focus: Garlic-led plates: top-chef grill-offs, Ohio cheese, local craft beer
Taste of Tremont on Professor Avenue in Tremont each July, the one-day neighborhood street festival showcasing every restaurant from a single block, runs free admission and pay-per-bite vendors.
Focus: Tremont neighborhood restaurants: small bites from every kitchen on Professor Avenue
Tremont Greek Festival at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on West 14th in Tremont, the four-day Memorial Day weekend festival since 1973, runs gyros, baklava and live Greek dance.
Focus: Greek: gyros, spanakopita, baklava, dolmades, Greek wine, loukoumades
Great Lakes Burning River Fest at the historic US Coast Guard Station on Whiskey Island, the Great Lakes Brewing-led summer waterfront festival benefiting the Burning River Foundation for clean water.
Focus: Cleveland food trucks alongside Great Lakes craft beer
IngenuityFest at IngenuityLabs on Hamilton Avenue in Midtown each September, the three-day art-and-tech festival, runs a large food village of Cleveland food trucks alongside live performance and installations.
Focus: Cleveland food trucks and a 30-vendor food village across the Hamilton industrial site