Half the joy of a Spanish holiday happens at the table, and the events calendar knows it. Across the costas you'll find tapas routes where bars compete for the best bite, gastro weeks celebrating local specialities, seafood festivals in the fishing ports, and grape-harvest fiestas where whole towns turn out to tread the new wine. They're a delicious, low-key way to eat like a local and meet one too. Here's what's on for food and drink while you're here.
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The crowds go home in September and the calendar gets better, not worse. Human towers in Tarragona, a whole town sliding down a hill on pine boar
Read the guideAs the first grapes come off the vines, coastal Spain turns to the table — vendimia treading, open-air wine fairs, no-middleman seafood, and vill
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Split, salted and grilled over driftwood on the sand — the sardine is the taste of the Spanish coastal summer. Here's where to eat like the fleet
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Gran Canaria's north brings its farmers' market back to the Plaza de Santiago after the August break, every other Sunday
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A seafront evening food market on the promenade at Punta Prima, with a handful of stalls selling freshly made artisanal
2Oct
Mallorca's northern walled town gives over its first October weekend to an agricultural and craft fair that has been run
10Oct
The custard apple is Almuñécar's crop and the hill village of Torrecuevas throws it a party every October: tastings, dan
11Oct
Peñíscola's Casa de Andalucía puts on a full Andalusian feria under the castle every October: casetas, sevillanas, rebuj
12Oct
Nine hours of music, food and folklore from twelve nationalities in the Plaza de la Cultura at San Isidro, southern Tene
31Oct
The Canarian answer to Halloween, and much older than it. On the night of 31 October families gather for chestnuts, nuts
14Nov
Pollença's autumn fair takes over the old town for a weekend in mid-November — island crafts, produce, livestock and foo
29Nov
On the night of 29 November, people in Icod ride greased pine boards down the town's steepest streets at genuinely alarm
1Feb
A month-long rural festival celebrating the Vall de Pop landscape, agriculture and identity, with this 10th edition them
10Apr
A two-week springtime celebration of Sóller's famous oranges, with citrus markets, tastings, grove tours, live music, wo
11Apr
A weekend tapas crawl where local bars and restaurants each serve a signature tapa plus a drink for 3.50 EUR, and you co
18Apr
Otívar, Andalusia's main loquat (níspero) growing village, throws an open-air festival for its prized spring fruit with
18Apr
A two-day town-wide tapa crawl where around 25 bars and restaurants each serve a special tapa with a drink for EUR 3.50.
30Apr
A gastronomic fair celebrating the Valencian 'esmorzaret' (hearty mid-morning breakfast) and the cremaet (flamed coffee
1May
A lively all-day village street party on May Day: a midday musical aperitif, a giant popular paella cooked by Chef Corre
18May
A celebration of Vinaròs's prized langostino (red prawn) at restaurants across town, each offering special set menus bui
22May
Mescla turns Deltebre's riverside park into the gastronomic capital of the Ebro Delta with around 56 food stalls, cookin
23May
An open-air evening of around 20 Spanish wines paired with appetizers from local bars and restaurants, set in the villag
23May
An open-air wine and gastronomy fair in the town's main square, bringing together nine local La Palma wineries, more tha
30May
San Miguel marks Canary Islands Day with a free village programme: a farming-and-livestock photo exhibition, afternoon f
30May
A relaxed village weekend dedicated to wine, gastronomy, art and local culture in the tiny stone village of La Selva de
1Jun
Throughout June, seven restaurants and bars across this remote dark-sky corner of La Palma serve creative desserts inspi
5Jun
A town-wide tapas crawl through June, where Alaior's bars and restaurants serve special tapas, often paired with a drink
10Jun
Fourteen bars and restaurants across town serve specially-created tapas for 3.50 EUR each over three weeks. Collect at l
11Jun
Vilanova's main avenue fills with more than twenty wineries from across Catalonia's DO regions, food stands, live music
13Jun
Palamós's signature celebration of its famous prawn — a Costa Brava landmark food event drawing 50,000+ visitors. 2026 e
13Jun
A two-day food fair in Haría's main square showcasing sustainable, vegan and gluten-free Canarian gastronomy, with local
13Jun
An open-air celebration of Lanzarote's volcanic-soil wines in the village of Uga, pairing tastings from local bodegas wi
19Jun
A run of special tasting menus across local La Unión restaurants that pair regional Murcian cuisine with the spirit of f
19Jun
A seaside summer kickoff fair in the beach resort of Coma-ruga, with the open-air Coma-ruga Market of crafts, fashion an
20Jun
A village square fair celebrating Meliana's locally grown tomatoes, with direct sales from six local farmers, oil tastin
20Jun
For about ten days in late June, around 19 restaurants and several fishmongers across Deltebre serve mussel-based tapas
23Jun
A communal dinner on the Portopetro waterfront where everyone dresses in white, with raffles and giveaways during the Sa
25Jun
A communal open-air barbecue in the village square of La Vegueta, followed at 9:30pm by a live concert from the band Ale
26Jun
A two-day open-air charity festival in El Medano's seafront plaza with live music, DJs, Canarian folk performances, food
27Jun
A long-running open-air paella cooking contest where teams cook over fire in the heart of the festival. The entry pan fe
28Jun
A communal grilled-sardine supper in the seaside Sant Pere park, part of the patron-saint festival of the maritime quart
30Jun
An evening tasting of Lanzarote white and red wines and local liqueurs, paired with a homemade dessert competition. A re
10Jul
An open-air wine-tasting evening in the picturesque historic square of Agüimes, where around a dozen Gran Canaria wineri
30Jul
An open-air seafood fair serving thousands of kilos of fresh fish and shellfish straight from the local fishing fleet wi
1Aug
Fuencaliente's annual open-air wine fair gathers the village's local wineries in the town hall square for an afternoon o
10Aug
A wonderfully local fiesta night when neighbours line Calle Mayor cooking giant paellas over open fires, with a xaranga
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