Experience a different festival in Rhodes

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 third year.

The Food Festival is on during August, this year it’s running from Friday 31st August until Sunday 2nd September 2018.

This is the experience we had last year. 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.

Rhodes Mandraki harbour dusk fishing food festival

Rhodes Mandraki harbour dusk food festival

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.

Rhodes food festival 2017 crowd and balloons

Rhodes food festival 2017 alpha beer stall

Rhodes food festival 2017 roll house chimney cake

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.

Rhodes night windmills food festival 2017

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.

Rhodes food festival 2017 union burgeria

Rhodes food festival 2017 curry wurst stand 2

Rhodes food festival 2017 curry wurst stand 1

Rhodes food festival 2017 bratwurst cooking

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

Olive, Feta & Ouzo

A travel & lifestyle blog with a focus on expat life. Written and photographed by Amanda Settle.

This blog created with love is free & always will be, but it does of course incur costs to run & keep it running. If would like to help keep it going, please consider popping something in the tip jar, thank you

Tip Jar

Post updated August 2018 originally written August 2017

6 Comments

Nick @ WorldwideGreeks.com on November 9, 2017 at 7:39 pm

Food festivals are great because you get to try a little bit of everything for a reasonable price! A perfect time to visit.

Loading...

Dan on September 26, 2017 at 1:58 pm

Great post Amanda, thanks for sharing! The market looks great, will have to give it a try. Love the pictures, very colourful.

Loading...

- Amanda on October 1, 2017 at 11:05 am
  
  It was a great little festival, hope you managed to get there. I see you are from Auto Rhodes, maybe we could work together?
  
  Loading...
  
Amanda @ olivefetaandouzo on August 27, 2017 at 9:03 am

Sorry the food wasn’t for you but I hope you had a great evening.

Loading...

tpebop on August 26, 2017 at 4:34 pm

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

Loading...

- Amanda @ olivefetaandouzo on August 26, 2017 at 7:28 pm
  
  Thank you, hope you have a lovely evening 🙂
  
  Loading...