Top Food, Beer & Wine Festivals
A real-life cornucopia, California is one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions. For example, we are by far the country’s top grower of avocados and strawberries. Unofficially, the state is also the national leader in food festivals. That is because Californians not only excel at growing and preparing food, they love to celebrate it, too. Attend events throughout the year that honour everything from Dungeness crab to tamales, artichokes and dates. And, of course, plenty of California wine and craft beer, too. Watch cooking demonstrations by star chefs, enjoy live entertainment and sample surprising speciality foods. Garlic ice cream, anyone?
Dive into over a week’s worth of all-you-can-eat crab feeds, winemaker's dinners, wine competitions, crab cruises, cooking classes and family-style cioppino feeds at this regional celebration of...
Honour the harvest season this October at the Hoes Down Harvest Festival, a family-friendly event that takes place at the beautiful...
Experience one of California’s most magical winter settings, the Majestic Yosemite Hotel (formerly...
Get ready for the Central Coast’s ultimate gathering of the culinary world. Now in its ninth year, this luxurious event is one of those star- and spectacle-studded experiences you simply have to...
Vampires beware: the Gilroy Garlic Festival is one garlic-infused weekend that creatures of the night may want to avoid. Everyone...
So popular that it has had to move out of its namesake town and 18 miles south to Monterey, the two-day Castroville Artichoke Food &...
Revel in the flavours of the ultimate foodie city as San Francisco’s premier chefs—many of them movers and shakers in the sustainability movement—strut their stuff at the ...
Want a date? You’re guaranteed to get one at this Coachella Valley extravaganza honouring the sweet, sticky fruits of local date palms. Sip creamy date shakes (said to be one of the best...
Get dressed up and party at special events all over this beautiful beach town in ‘the O.C.’ Special chefs’ dinners at area restaurants, live cooking demonstrations and other special experiences...
With the nickname 'America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital', it’s only appropriate that Sacramento celebrates the bounty sourced from its 1.4...
The first avocado trees in California were planted around 1871 and now the state grows a whopping 90 percent of the crop harvested in the U.S. So it makes sense that one of the state’s top growing...
Showcasing the city’s prowess as a seriously great food destination, this festival is a gourmet spectacular showcasing leading chefs, top wineries and culinary icons for four days of delectable...
