Menton Lemon Festival 2027: Food, Wine and Citrus Terroir
Menton's Fête du Citron brings 250,000 visitors to the Riviera each February for citrus-sculpture parades, IGP lemon tastings and Provencal food tours.
The Haro Wine Battle is a red wine fight held every 29 June in La Rioja. Here are the 2027 date, the 2026 timetable, the rules, transport, budget and the winery tours to combine with it.
The Cheese Festival in Gruyères is listed for Sunday 2 May 2027. Here is how the wood-fire Gruyère day works, what the date does and does not confirm, and how to plan the day.
The Frankfurt Green Sauce Festival returns in 2027 with a market from 20 April and eight evening contests to 1 May. Here are the dates, the tickets, the jury format and how to plan the week.
The Barossa Vintage Festival runs 21 to 25 April 2027. Here is how to plan the dates, the tickets, the drive from Adelaide and the wine tours around it.
No 2027 dates are announced yet for the Óbidos Chocolate Festival. Here is what is confirmed from the 2026 edition, the tickets, the way from Lisbon and a weekend plan.
The 21st Charleston Wine + Food Festival runs 3 to 7 March 2027. Here is how to plan the dinners, the ticket sale, the getting there and the food tours around it.
Montreal en Lumiere runs from 18 to 28 February 2027. The 2027 food programme is not out yet, so here is how to plan a winter food trip around verified dates, costs and tours.
Volnay hosts Burgundy's Saint-Vincent Tournante on 30-31 January 2027. Here's how registration, the tasting kit and the banquets work, and how to plan your weekend around them.
A free, three-day regional food fair in the Wiener Stadtpark, 7-9 May 2027. How to read it province by province, what is still unpublished, and how to fold in the Naschmarkt, a Heuriger and the Wachau.
Six days, 28 April to 3 May 2027, in the heart of Scotch whisky country. Dates and ticket calendar are confirmed; the programme, prices and festival buses are not. Here is a car-free plan from Inverness, and the traps to plan around.
Smoky Thursday falls on 4 March 2027, a month after the Western Fat Thursday. Athens has not published its 2027 programme, so here is how to plan a day of grills, a taverna table and a market morning without guessing.
The 91st Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia has confirmed dates for March 2027 and almost nothing else yet. Here is a Thursday-to-Sunday plan that pairs one free public night with one bodega a morning, plus what to book first.
Marlborough's 41-year-old wine festival is on pause, but the walkable, bikeable cluster of cellar doors around Renwick that made it worth attending never went anywhere.
Once a year, a free three-day market of woolly-pig charcuterie, pálinka and pörkölt takes over the square beside Hungary's Parliament. The 2027 dates aren't confirmed yet — here's how to plan around that honestly.
Oaxaca sells itself as Mexico's culinary capital, and most of that reputation is earned — but the gap between a real market-to-metate cooking class and a staged demo for tour buses is wide. Here is how to tell them apart, and which ten local workshops actually pass the test.
South Africa is the only wine nation with a documented birthday for its first vintage. Six weeks later, in February and March, the Cape Winelands live it all over again — and Stellenbosch and Franschhoek couldn't feel more different about it.
Lima is the only city to have produced two different World's No.1 restaurants in three years, and it hosts the World's 50 Best ceremony itself in November 2026. But Central and Maido take no bookings through any travel platform. Here is the real three-tier hierarchy of Lima dining, and the food tours and cooking classes you can actually reserve.
On 24-25 January 2027, twenty-four national teams cook live in a purpose-built arena inside Sirha Lyon for the Bocuse d'Or's 40th-anniversary world final — and the three ticket-free days around it are reason enough to come.
Champagne is the only great wine region made to be tasted underground: chalk cellars hold a steady 10°C all year, so a cellar-hopping weekend from Reims works brilliantly in winter, when the houses are quiet and the cathedral forecourt glows with holiday lights.
Kyoto's working sake district, eighteen historic breweries strong, sits a couple of quiet train stops from Fushimi Inari's crowds, with its own spring festival still waiting on a confirmed next date.
For 18 days each winter, Rhine castles and a Cistercian abbey become the stage for Michelin-starred chefs and Rheingau's finest Riesling — the 2027 edition marks the festival's 30th anniversary.
Hanoi's street food scene is one of Southeast Asia's most exciting culinary destinations, where French colonial, Chinese and indigenous flavours collide across the Old Quarter's 36 guild streets. This eating map guides first-timers through essential dishes, block-by-block walking routes, top-rated food tours, cooking classes and market visits.
Menton's Fête du Citron brings 250,000 visitors to the Riviera each February for citrus-sculpture parades, IGP lemon tastings and Provencal food tours.
While summer visitors queue outside Porto's Port wine lodges, winter travellers get the same three-century-old cellars to themselves, for nearly half the price.
In the Anti-Atlas mountains south of Marrakech, the Berber town of Taliouine grows nearly 90% of Morocco's saffron, picked by hand before dawn on terraced fields and celebrated most years at an international festival. Here's how to time a visit around the harvest itself, the one date that never moves.
Ten days of chocolate, November truffles and Sagrantino: here is the complete guide to Eurochocolate Perugia 2026, Europe's largest chocolate festival.
Three days each October, the red stigmas of the Crocus sativus transform the ochre plains of Castilla-La Mancha into something extraordinary. The Consuegra Saffron Rose Festival — 64th edition in 2026 — is harvest, pageant, and gastronomic ritual all at once, set beneath Spain's most iconic windmills.
Every August, Concarneau's Quai Carnot fills with the smell of grilled sardines, the drone of binious and the spectacle of 2,000 marchers in Breton costume. The Festival des Filets Bleus — Brittany's oldest festival — is one of France's most authentic food and folk celebrations.
Six summer editions on the lawns of England's grandest estates: the Great British Food Festival returns with artisan markets, live chef demonstrations and family competitions from July to August Bank Holiday 2026.
Each February, Porto's Palácio da Bolsa transforms into the world's most extraordinary port wine fair: 400 producers, 4,000 wines for free tasting, and four days of masterclasses in one of Portugal's finest 19th-century palaces.
Europe's most spectacular Christmas destination pairs 250,000 LEDs, Guinness-record fireworks and centuries-old Madeira wine lodges into one subtropical December.
Each February, Yoyogi Park becomes the stage for Japan's largest seafood gourmet festival: 80 booths of king crab, uni, live tuna filleting shows and Fukushima sake, all free to enter.
San Sebastián holds more Michelin stars per capita than almost any city on earth — and its pintxo bars pack just as much brilliance into a single bite. This guide maps the Parte Vieja crawl, decodes the txikiteo ritual and adds a one-day Rioja Alavesa escape for good measure.
Valencia invented paella in the rice fields bordering the Albufera lagoon — and the best way to understand the dish is to cook it there, with a local chef, surrounded by orange groves and flooded paddies.
Since 1570, the Christkindelsmarik has turned Strasbourg into Europe's greatest winter food destination. Here is everything you need to eat, drink and explore across eight squares.
Three weekends in November, one medieval hilltop between Florence and Pisa: the 55th Mostra Mercato del Tartufo Bianco di San Miniato is Tuscany's finest white truffle event.
At midnight on 19 November 2026, the first barrel of Beaujolais Nouveau is tapped in Beaujeu — a medieval village 56 km from Lyon that fills with torch processions and 20,000 wine lovers for the annual Sarmentelles festival.
Italy's most authentic truffle fair: four autumn weekends in Le Marche where Tuber magnatum trades straight from hunter to hand, 30 minutes from UNESCO Urbino.
Eight autumn weekends in Piedmont devoted to the world's most expensive fungus: here is everything you need to plan a trip to the 96th Alba White Truffle Fair.
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