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.
🍷 Food & DrinkStories, context and live dates across Spain
Field guide
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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Field guide
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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29 Sep · Daya Nueva
29 Sep · San Miguel de Abona
29 Sep · Tazacorte
On now · Candelaria
On now · Ingenio
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