Best food festivals to visit in 2025

As MICEcafe Journey, we think that culinary travel is among the most immersive means to experience a culture.

Be it from heritage recipes to modern fusion innovation, food festivals allow you to gauge taste some, learn about it and connect with people.

Planning your holidays between May to December 2025 and looking for some of the best food festivals to visit? We’ve handpicked a list of the world’s top festivals that promise spellbinding flavours and experiences.

Get ready to fill your stomach and come along as we take a look at the best food festivals to visit in the back half of 2025.

1. Taste of London — London, UK

Dates: June 18 — June 22, 2025

Location: Regent’s Park, London

Taste of London is one of Europe’s premier gourmet events with the top chefs, artisan producers, and interactive experiences.

They expect food stalls from London’s best restaurants and fire pit barbecues, wine pairings and masterclasses with Michelin starred chefs.

What do We Offer: We will supply you with VIP entry passes, pre-booked chef table sessions and culinary walking tours in Soho and Borough Market.

2. Goa Food and Cultural Festival — Panjim, Goa, India

Expected in May 2025 (Official Dates TBA)

Location: DB Bandodkar Ground, Panjim

This is a vibrant festival to celebrate different cuisines of Goa, especially seafood delicacies, local deserts and drinks like Feni, with music, dance and in the midst of Goa’s beach side culture. Cultural performances bookend the chefs cooking.

Most Visit With Us: Culinary village tours, spice plantation visits, heritage Goan homes with authentic homemade food.

3. Nationwide (France): Fête de la Gastronomie

Dates: September 19 — September 21, 2025

Location: Across France

This national food festival is celebrated throughout France with street feasts, regional tasting events, open kitchens and vineyard tours to sample the French culinary arts.

Anyone with a penchant for French cheese, pastries, and wine can’t miss out on this.

When To Visit With Us: We create custom regional itineraries with itineraries like Burgundy wine trails and Provençal food markets and take guests beyond the cities for authentic taste of France.

4. Pizzafest — Naples, Italy

Dates: September 8 — September 14, 2025

Location: Lungomare Caracciolo, Naples

Master pizzaioli serve up the world’s favorite dish, dozens of varieties on the scenic waterfront of which thousands of pizza lovers have joined. Besides exhibitions, the festival also includes pizza making workshops, competitions and live entertainment.

Mozzarella making, pizza making (in the home of an award winning pizzaiolo), private dinners with award winning chefs, historical tours of Naples relating to its history and food are just a few of many reasons to come visit with us.

5. Oktoberfest — Munich, Germany

Dates: September 20 — October 5, 2025

Location: Theresienwiese, Munich

But Oklahoma gets much more than beer, it’s a festival of Bavarian culinary traditions including roast meats, potato dumplings, sweet pretzels, and apple desserts, shared in massive festival tents buzzing with music and energy.

Why Visit with Us: We reserve premium tents for reserved tables, we do brewery and sausage factory tours and provide themed culinary excursions based on Munich’s rich food heritage.

6. Salon du Chocolat — Paris, France

Dates: October 29 — November 2, 2025

Location: Paris Expo Porte de Versailles

A chocolate lover’s dream, this festival showcases the world’s finest chocolatiers, patissiers, and cocoa artists.

Chocolate sculpture, live tastings and live fashion shows are expected at the event with theme related garments.

The Why Visit with Us: Access to backstage chocolate workshops, experience French pastry artisans, Charles Chocolatier’s luxury chocolate tour of historic Parisian confectionery houses.

7. Melbourne Night Noodle Markets — Melbourne, Australia

Dates: November 6 — November 23, 2025

Location: Birrarung Marr, Melbourne

The open air Asian street food festival has sizzling woks, Korean BBQ, bao buns, Thai curries, noodle bowls, all under Melbourne’s evenings skyline. Good Food Month celebrations is part of the city’s annual.

How We Visit: We include festival visits with our custom food tours through Melbourne’s laneways, and excursion to the Yarra Valley wine country.

8. GastroMasa — Istanbul, Turkey

Dates: November 22 — November 23, 2025

Location: Istanbul Congress Center

GastroMasa is a premier culinary conference and festival that brings together the world’s top chefs for panels, tastings and unique food innovation showcases.

Intellectually and on the sense, it’s all about food and how it defines stories.

Why Visit with Us? Access to panel discussions, Turkish fine dining reservation, private Istanbul spice market and historic meyhane tours.

9. Enfes Festival — Izmir, Turkey

Dates: December 5 — December 8, 2025

Location: Kordon Promenade, Izmir

The meaning of this Festival comes from the Turkish, where enfes means delicious, and at this Festival you can eat samples of the Aegean’s cuisine with olive oil, seafood, stuffed vegetables and the delicious baklava.

It’s a culinary traveler’s hidden gem with a sea breeze and a relaxed pace.

Why Visit with Us: Aegean food trails we design include Izmir, Ephesus and surrounding coastal villages, family run taverns, olives farms and local cooking classes.

10. Sapporo Autumn Fest — Sapporo, Japan

Dates: September 6 — September 29, 2025

Location: Odori Park, Sapporo

Including buttery foods like seafood, steaming ramen, Genghis Khan (grilled lamb), dairy products, and craft sake, Hokkaido’s full harvest is celebrated all month long.

Taking place in a park ablaze with fall foliage, the festival is the top seasonal festival in Japan.

The Why: Culinary train journey, ramen tasting led by a qualified chef, cheese dairies and miso brewery visits, retreating to hot springs after the festival to wind down.

Final Word: This Will Be Your Most Delicious Year Thus Far!

And fall in love with the dishes of romantic avenues of Paris in summer, or sunlit coasts of Goa in winter; share in the hearty Bavarian feasts during Christmas or the delicate tastes of Hokkaido in autumn … these food festivals in May to December 2025 do cater to everybody and for every taste and food passion.

Don’t get me wrong, eating is not the only important aspect, it is all about enjoying culture and food, and all the people behind the dishes.

MICEcafe Journey believes that every traveller deserves more than a ticket and we provide access, insight and unforgettable experiences.

Wouldn’t it be something to base a culinary adventure around one or more of these amazing festivals and include accommodations, transport and maverick connections?

Ready for a gourmet tour?

Contact us today in order to make a Food festival holiday customized according to your needs of 2025. Bon voyage-and bon appétit!

 

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