Gourmet festivals France

This young festival will surprise your taste buds again this year! "Auch : le goût" is a gourmet festival showcasing Gers and Gascony gastronomy. Connoisseurs, amateurs, gourmands and gourmets come together for markets, gastronomic meals, masterclasses, competitions and other events highlighting the work of producers, artisans, winegrowers and food professionals. With its culinary events and tastings, this is a festival of Gascony gastronomy that we highly recommend!

Les Toques blanches Roussillon-Occitanie, presided over by Jean Plouzenec and Henri Ronde, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. After two years of "dearth" due to Covid, the Palais Gourmand becomes Palais des Chefs. And what a Palais! Forty chefs associated with forty winegrowers, assisted by Olivier Bajard, MOF and world pastry champion, Henri Poch, MOF in bakery, and some starred "pointures" like the Pourcel brothers, to name but a few, highlight, for one evening, their know-how and the products of the Catalan soil for a thousand guests. A once in a lifetime experience.

If you want to discover local products, the Holiday Festival is made for you. Over two days, various animations will be organized in May. After a meal in the ballroom, everyone will go to the church of Senones to listen to Te Deum by the ensemble Stradivavia in Nantes. This is the day after the twinning mass. Several small growers will also be rewarded before lunch. In the afternoon, conferences, tastings and concerts are underway.

In October, Anduzepaystribute to the symbolic tree of the Cévennes with two popular events: the chestnut festival and the soup festival. The village is transformed into a huge market of arts and crafts, local produce and flavours (roasted chestnuts, honey, wine, charcuterie, cheeses...). There's also a soup competition and tastings. Without doubt, this is a popular festival with the flavour and traditions of the Gard!

This huge market, set at the foot of an impressive pyramid of reinette apples and sweet onions, features a wide range of local produce from the Gard region. Gourmets will love the giant onion soup or sweet onion fritters with chestnut flour, or the "special fair" menu in the town's restaurants. You'll also find Camargue bulls, olives, Bouzigues oysters, pélardons, chestnuts, mushrooms, Vézénobres figs, Uzès black truffles..

For the 1 st, 8 st, 15 th, 22nd and 29 th of September and 6 th of October 2012, the Autumn Flavours offer appointments to Restaurateurs and Facim. Local dishes, yesterday's cuisine or revisited today to get out of the false ideas of Savoyard cuisine.

Within the framework of the "Route du Blé en Beauce", about fifteen communes of the south of the department joined together to make discover the specificities of this territory. Among them, the agricultural heritage holds a place of choice with the visit of farms, where cereals are mainly cultivated, in particular wheat or beet. The valleys crossed by the rivers irrigating the Eure-et-Loir are also places for canoeing or walking.

It has been a tradition for over 15 years. From 7 p. m. to p. m., vide, mountain biking, hiking, hiking, and champêtre. Starting at 14 a. m., many festivities: dance shows and the so-called concours contest for goat trafficking. From 19 p. m. to p. m. on the subject of goat cheese. Then pond embrasement and popular ball.

Poligny, the capital of the county, celebrates this delicious and famous AOP cheese every year in a convivial and festive atmosphere. Discover on-line the manufacture of the old county and enjoy a tasty evening fondue.

At 6 p. m. manufacture of the old county, mini-farm, tasting workshops and manufacture of small ridings for children, wine tastings of Jura.

From 8 p. m. giant fondue and dancing evening, inscriptions at 03 84 37 24 21.

This event, which has been taking place for 18 years, is being proposed by the Villemoisson Association. Some 100 exhibitors offer free wine tasting (more than 4 vintages), cheeses (exhibitors), oysters, fatty livers and other French specialities in a friendly and warm atmosphere. On-site dining, raffle and wine tasting contest. For a low entrance rate, you are entitled to a tasting glass.

Since 2001 Vercors celebrates its Bleu AOC on one of the communes of the massif, side Isère or side Drôme, alternating. A great and beautiful holiday holiday, very popular. The opportunity to enjoy in a convivial and entertaining atmosphere the wealth of local agriculture. Daily by animations, the feast delights both the small and the large by the variety of its animals, the quality of its local products, the originality of its culinary and gastronomic specialities. In the programme: conferences, films, cultural activities and full nature…

The Local organised by the press auversois is free. It is interesting on two stories, because it is held in the city where Van Gogh lived. It brings together about sixty wine producers of names known or unknown and artisans locals who come from all over France. It is an opportunity to taste and discover new products. A tombola allows you to reach many gourmet lots.

Solicited some thirty years ago by a group of fifteen people for a crayfish dinner, René and Catherine Fortin decided to cook some not for fifteen, but for the whole village! The tradition has remained: every first weekend of August, it is the crayfish festival in Anost. In their restaurant La Galvache, they offer two crayfish-based menus and American-style crayfish, in sauce, to take away. A popular meeting place for regulars, it also attracts many curious people. We come there without hesitation!

As part of the "Mardis de l'Été" (Summer Tuesdays), Floc de Gascogne, the South-West's must-have aperitif, is the star of a day of cocktail events (initiation and tasting) to discover the drink. Later in the day, enjoy a guided tour of the Cathedral and a free organ concert by Les Vespérales. Finally, in the evening, the traditional gourmet market featuring local producers awaits you! Fill your plate with gourmet products and enjoy a tasting of local wines and Armagnac, to the sound of the bandas!

The Fête du Pois Chiche is a cultural event symbolic of the very contemporary vivacity of totem poles in Occitania, and now a must for lovers of music and live entertainment. The Kollectif du Pois Chiche Masqué invites you to join in the fun with their wackiest activities: brass bands, concerts, street art, traditional balls, crazy and poetic theater and street shows, exhibitions at the Musée International du Pois Chiche... from Occitan music to rock'n'roll, the collective has a wacky weekend in store for you!

Autumn is here and with it, the return of the Forgotten Vegetables Festival to La Haye-de-Routot, a small town located on the edge of the Brotonne forest. The day's programme includes workshops for children, gardening, cooking, conferences, exhibitions of carved vegetables, games and a large market. Everything is being done to restore the nobility of forgotten vegetables.

This traditional festival, organized by the association of Quercy saffron producers, combines flowers and gastronomy. Les Safraniers du Quercy welcome you to learn all about the cultivation of this small violet flower, from planting to harvesting, from pruning to gastronomy. You'll be able to taste saffron in its many uses: aperitifs, savoury and sweet products. It's also an opportunity to visit the saffron farms and fill your basket with local saffron products! A gourmet outing for the whole family!

From 16 to 22 July 2009: The department's artistic and culinary riches are honoured by this event.

Oô, well known to cruciverbists, welcomes the best of Haute-Garonne's local produce in a convivial atmosphere. For the past 28 years, this unique event has been held every summer, to the delight of gourmets. Some forty producers come together to showcase their produce and local specialities. It's a meeting place for gourmands, gourmets and a variety of skills in the service of the local culinary heritage.

At the end of July, the "Fête des Charcutiers-Salaisonniers" brings Lacaune to life! Numerous events punctuate the day, starting in the morning with the cooking of the famous hams on the spit, before the traditional cutting of the pig (also called "Masèl") and the parade of brotherhoods from all over France. We celebrate Saint Anthony, patron saint of pork butchers, we visit the House of pork butchery and specialized local companies including Oberti, participate in the fair of local products and pork butchery ... A very greedy discovery.

Sauveterre-de-Rouergue celebrates the products of the season: chestnuts and sweet cider. "La castagna", or chestnuts in Occitan, used to be part of the well-established ritual of family gatherings. So, for over 50 years, on the last Sunday in October, in the pretty setting of the Place des Arcades, you can enjoy roasted chestnuts at this annual gathering, while admiring the movements of a folk dance group. It's a great way to combine the pleasures of the eye and the taste buds! A tasty moment to share with the whole family!

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To celebrate the weekend as it should be and to comfort themselves in this end of the week, what could be better than gourmet Sunday? Acknowledge how the concept is enticing! This day set of themes and friendly enables you to meet the local producers and to exchange with them. The hour is with the relaxation and the conviviality! Warm atmosphere and picturesque. Shoppings and small producing propose to you to taste their products: fruits and mixed vegetables of season, honey, cheeses and charcuterie... One regales know-how and of local!

First weekend in October, animation in the dungeon cellars, around bread. A country is invited every year.

Once a year, the fat galline - chicken - is cooking for about five hundred guests, to remind you of the huge meal that would emerge at the end of the harvest. A demonstration associated with Templières days.

The initiative union organizes Bruny, two days dedicated to local production, most of which come from organic farming. Tastings, demonstrations and conferences.

Gastronomy and local handicraft are the main features of numerous culinary events and demonstrations, tastings and sales of regional products and cooking competitions.

Despite its 70 years, the venerable "Tripière d'Or" has not aged a day. Quite the contrary, in fact. Who hasn't heard of Caen-style tripe? Every year, this jewel of Normandy gastronomy is the subject of a competition to determine the world's best tripe. Serious business! The recipe is an exact science that may change from year to year, depending on a few tiny ingredients, but Caen-style tripe remains a heritage firmly rooted in its region. For its ^70th edition, it will be held for the ^1st time at the Foire de Caen.

For all you gourmands out there, get ready to lick your lips! The Pyrenean Cheese and Honey Festival takes place in August, with a host of events organized around these local products to delight young and old alike. A festive evening with bandas and traditional groups, a market selling cheese, honey and local and artisanal Pyrenean products, a workshop for making farmhouse cheese and wooden objects, tastings... A delicious rendezvous!

Many activities are offered at the priory of Saint-Philbert during the Fall Flavours. A major event focused on apples, also enhanced by a craft market.

In October, the walnuts fall from their pericarp, and a few can be tasted along the way. When the harvest is finally over, the Noix du Périgord celebrate in Thégra! The village organizes events and tastings under the autumn sun. On the program: bandas in the streets, horse-drawn carriage rides and merry-go-rounds for the kids, and all day entertainment for young and old, including workshops on making oil at the walnut oil mill, making apple juice and baking bread in a wood-fired oven. Not to be missed!

Since 2009, gastronomes have had a new meeting, the Nuit de la Fricassée, organised by the association Les Fins gourmets des Marronniers, which aims to give this local dish its full place. The "Nuit de la Fricassée" brings together, from 6 p.m., all the specialities of Limoux, gourmet and folklore. Blanquette, chardonnay, pébradous, fricassee and beans, local cheese and honey, Limos, nougat, red wine and brandy are on the menu for an evening of bandas. Of course, the Basilian brotherhood of the "Capitouls" gets in tune and enthroned a few personalities before a carnival band, sharpens the curiosity of the guests who then dance until late at night.

Toulouse, the French whiskey capital? That's the idea launched by the Hopscoth Pub & Brewerly, a pub that your fox would warmly recommend. In September 2020, it will therefore organize the third edition of the Toulouse Whisky Festival. A few figures to give you an idea of the scale of the event: 900 ^{m2 of} exhibition space, 70 producers and nearly 300 references on offer for tasting! Shop, masterclasses, catering, entertainment and, of course, a bar serving homemade Hopscoth beer await you to share the best of Scottish tradition. Please note that booking is essential and it is wise to make your reservation as soon as possible.