Looking for a different type of festival on the island of Rhodes we went to the Food Festival. It is always fun to find different things to do on the island and we are always looking out for good food too. The Food Festival of Rhodes is in its second year and we headed up to Rhodes town last night to check it out.
The Food Festival is on during August, this year it’s Friday 25th to Sunday 27th from 7 pm. We arrived in town around 7.30 pm and parked at the far end of Mandraki harbour. Walking up along the harbour there were lots of people around, visitors and locals, walking and fishing.
The festival is located in the pedestrian area near the statue of Alexandros Diakos just up from the fountain. We found lots of stalls and plenty of people wandering around. Some were still setting up as we arrived.
There was a good selection of different types of food and drink from producers and businesses on the island. With lots of different tastes from Greek BBQ to Sushi.
We wandered around took some pictures and bumped into people we know.
Then we decided to have a falafel wrap from To Marouli who produce wonderful vegetarian/vegan cuisine. It was delicious, a really light bread wrap contained plenty of salad cheese and very tasty falafel. They have a popular restaurant in the Medieval Old Town which we haven’t tried yet but will be booking a table soon.
To walk off some of the food we headed around the harbour to the other side of the deer. Then along the windmills which have turned into a tourist selfie spot and into the old town through Symi square.
Wandering around there were musicians on corners and a really wonderful lively atmosphere. We found a cafe we know well on Socratous that wasn’t too busy for a cool drink and some people watching.
We then headed out through the marine gate and back to the food festival. By now it was a lot busier with queues at all the stalls and crowds standing around eating, drinking and chatting.
Having walked off our falafel we couldn’t resist a curry wurst. This bike cooker was imported from Germany by owner Sacha Engel. We’ve tried their wurst before at the Christmas market in Rhodes town, they attend a couple of festivals a year, try them out if you see them.
Are you planning on going or have you been to the food festival in Rhodes? If you enjoyed this and found it useful please comment and share. Thank you
Food festivals are great because you get to try a little bit of everything for a reasonable price! A perfect time to visit.
Great post Amanda, thanks for sharing! The market looks great, will have to give it a try. Love the pictures, very colourful.
It was a great little festival, hope you managed to get there. I see you are from Auto Rhodes, maybe we could work together?
Sorry the food wasn’t for you but I hope you had a great evening.
Thanks Amanda for your review. We are going with a friend tonight [saturday ]
I was not sure of the location But thought it would be near the church.So it will be a shorter walk from the bus terminus
Thank you, hope you have a lovely evening 🙂