The Best Food and Drink Festivals to Look Forward to Around Brisbane in 2024
Add dumpling, tea, cake, oyster, gin, whisky, berry, beer and Greek festivals to your culinary plans for this year.
The Best Food and Drink Festivals to Look Forward to Around Brisbane in 2024
They say everything in moderation, but not in 2024. How can you keep things in check when Brisbane and its surrounding areas keep hosting food and drink festivals — including oh-so-many booze fests — spanning everything from gin and whisky to dumplings and berries?
You can't, and they're just some of the culinary- and beverage-focused events to look forward across the new year. So, you may as well lean in and get among it. At these fests, you can have your cake (and your oysters, cheese and bubbles) and eat or drink it, too.
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Food & DrinkGinuary Festival
Count down Australia's 100 best gins of the past year — and drink them.
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Food & DrinkOyster Frenzy 2024
Tuck into six courses of oysters, including with chardonnay mignonette, pancetta and cheesy barbecue mornay — then add oyster shooters.
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Food & DrinkSouthside Dumpling Festival
Feast your way through dumplings, har gow, gyoza and dim sums at this one-day event at Southside and Fish Lane Town Square.
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Food & DrinkBrisAsia ParTEA
Sip tea in multiple varieties, taste new flavours and take a tea workshop — all in the Chinatown Mall.
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Food & DrinkRosé Festival by City Winery 2024
Brisbane's inner-city winery is bringing its celebration of drinking pink back to its home base, complete with stomping grapes, a blending workshop and, of course, sips.
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Travel & LeisureStanthorpe Apple & Grape Harvest Festival
Apple picking, wine fiestas, berry farm tours, grape-stomping sessions, leafy gardens — you'll find them all southwest of Brisbane.
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Food & DrinkWeekend of Tartness
The funkiest, sourest, most-refreshing beers being produced in Australia and around the world will take over The Scratch's taps for three tart days.
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Food & DrinkJuicy Beer Festival
This indie beer festival pours brews in the chandelier-filled Fortitude Music Hall — and soundtracks them with DJs.
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Travel & LeisureBrisAsia Festival 2024
Feast your way through a dumpling festival in Fish Lane, then get sipping at a Chinatown tea party at Brisbane's citywide celebration of Asian culture.
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Food & DrinkInternational Cake Show
When you're not learning how to make sweet treats, you'll be eating them.
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Food & DrinkPaniyiri Greek Festival
Get ready for loukoumades, souvlaki and haloumi in Musgrave Park at one of Brisbane's favourite cultural and culinary events.
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Food & DrinkBrisbane Good Food and Wine Show
Prepare to sample all the food (and sip all the wine) at this weekend of food stalls, masterclasses and vino stations.
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Food & DrinkBrisbane Gin Festival
This boozy festival is bringing 30 craft gin distillers from around the country to Fortitude Valley for three days of masterclasses and tastings.
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Food & DrinkThe Bubbles Festival
Say cheers to two hours of sipping sparkling at this ode to bubbly sips.
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Food & DrinkWhisky Live Brisbane
Your $155 to this whisky-sampling event includes tastings from distilleries around the world, bites to eat and classes to up your spirits knowledge.
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Food & DrinkGrape Grazing by Night
Raise your glass to Aussie wine — and brews — at this annual event as part of the Royal Queensland Awards.
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Food & DrinkMoreton Bay Food and Wine Festival
Enjoy three days of food and booze by the sea — whether you like beer, wine, cocktails, seafood or desserts.