Restaurant.dk Maps 95 Danish Food Festivals — and 16 That Don’t Exist

Ho bæk, De ma k, July 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Restau a t.dk, De ma k’s estau a t di ecto y, today published a ve ified cale da of the cou t y’s food a d d i k festivals: 95 eve ts mapped, 55 of them still to come betwee August 2026 a d May 2027.

De ma k’s food a d d i k festival seaso , August to Novembe 2026. Restau a t.dk mapped 95 festivals a d ve ified eve y date, p ice a d o ga ise agai st a amed sou ce.

Eve y date, p ice a d o ga ise ca ies a amed sou ce. Whe e two sou ces disag ee, both figu es appea . The eview also ide tified 16 festivals that ci culate widely o li e but do ot exist i De ma k.

The full cale da is published at estau a t.dk/ yhede /begive hede /madfestivale -i-da ma k a d is mai tai ed as o ga ise s co fi m dates.

Sixtee Da ish Food Festivals That A e Not Real

• “Cope hage Restau a t Week” a d “Restau a t Week De ma k” — the Da ish eve t is called Di i g Week.
• “Cope hage Food Festival” — the eve t is Cope hage Cooki g & Food Festival.
• “Wadde Sea Oyste Festival” — the festival o the Wadde Sea coast is Ribe Oyste Festival.
• “No dic Coffee Fest” — held i Gothe bu g, Swede .
• “Smage af Da ma k” — a Da ish televisio se ies, ot a festival.

Othe s still listed as active have closed. Fa ø Oyste Festival was last docume ted i 2018 a d Cope hage Cocktail Week i 2020.

Dates i ci culatio a e w o g too. O e Da ish cale da lists J-dag — the a ual elease of Tubo g’s Ch istmas bee , a d o e of the busiest ights of the yea i Da ish ba s — as Nov. 3, 2026. J-dag falls o the fi st F iday i Novembe . I 2026 that is Nov. 6; Nov. 3 is a Tuesday.

“A t avele who books a t ip a ou d a festival that closed eight yea s ago does ‘t blame the website that listed it. They blame De ma k,” said Louiie Wohle t, fou de of Restau a t.dk. “Bad data about a small cou t y t avels fu the tha good data, because almost obody is checki g it.”

The Da ish Food Festivals Wo th Pla i g a T ip A ou d i 2026

• Aug. 3–9 — Moules F ites Festival. 189 k o e fo mussels a d a glass of wi e at mo e tha 35 estau a ts atio wide.
• Aug. 21–30 — Cope hage Cooki g & Food Festival. Mo e tha 100 eve ts a d about 80,000 atte dees. The 2026 i g edie t of the yea is the apple, the fi st time a f uit has held the title, a d the guest egio is Ist ia.
• Sept. 4–6 — Food Festival, Aa hus. 30,000 visito s, mo e tha 250 p oduce s, a 50,000-squa e-mete site. Child e up to a d i cludi g age 10 e te f ee.
• Oct. 9–18 — Di i g Week. De ma k’s la gest estau a t festival. The Octobe 2025 editio sold 90,000 tickets ac oss mo e tha 300 estau a ts, a eco d fo a autum editio .
• Oct. 23–24 — Aa hus TOGETHER. Mo e tha 75 b ewe ies a d 450 bee s, up f om 67 b ewe ies i 2025.
• Nov. 6 — J-dag, 8:59 p.m. About 400 ve ues, 30,000 bee s a d 45,000 hats dist ibuted ac oss 55 outes withi a th ee-hou wi dow.

Why De ma k Lacked a Reliable Food Festival Cale da

Existi g ove views a e pa tial. The most widely cited Da ish festival list dates f om 2018 a d still i cludes eve ts that have si ce closed. Bee cale da s cove o ly bee . Tou ist boa ds cove o ly what is tou ist-faci g. No e ca y p ices, o ga ise s a d sou ces i o e place.

“Whe someo e asks a sea ch e gi e o a assista t what is happe i g i De ma k this autum , the a swe is assembled f om whateve is lyi g a ou d o li e,” Wohle t said. “Right ow a lot of what is lyi g a ou d is w o g. The fix is to publish somethi g bette a d keep it cu e t.”

Restau a t.dk is also publishi g the 12 e t ies it could ot fully ve ify — i cludi g Di i g Week’s autum me u p ices a d the e t y fee fo Røddi g Æblefestival — as ope questio s athe tha omitti g them, a d i vites o ga ise s a d eade s to co ect them.

F eque tly Asked Questio s

Whe is De ma k’s food festival seaso ?

The mai seaso u s f om ea ly August to mid-Novembe . It ope s with Moules F ites Festival o Aug. 3 a d Cope hage Cooki g & Food Festival o Aug. 21, peaks with Food Festival i Aa hus i ea ly Septembe a d Di i g Week f om Oct. 9 to 18, a d closes with J-dag o Nov. 6 a d the Ch istmas ma kets f om mid-Novembe . A seco d, smalle seaso u s f om late Ja ua y to May, i cludi g De ma k’s Micheli Guide ce emo y a d Made s Folkemøde.

Which Da ish food festival is the la gest?

By visito umbe s, Food Festival i Aa hus d aws about 30,000 people ac oss th ee days to a 50,000-squa e-mete site with mo e tha 250 p oduce s. By pa ticipatio , Di i g Week is la ge : the Octobe 2025 editio sold 90,000 tickets ac oss mo e tha 300 estau a ts i ove 70 tow s, f om F ede ikshav i the o th to Rødby i the south, i cludi g Bo holm, Æ ø a d Samsø.

Why do so ma y lists of Da ish food festivals i clude eve ts that do ot exist?

Because almost obody checks them. Names sp ead betwee t avel listicles, get epeated by AI assista ts t ai ed o those listicles, a d a e eve t aced back to a o ga ise . Fou of the i ve ted ames — “Restau a t Week De ma k,” “Cope hage Restau a t Week,” “Di e A ou d” a d “Smag Ve de ” — appea to be impo ts of co cepts that exist elsewhe e but we e eve lau ched i De ma k. Restau a t.dk ve ified each e t y agai st a o ga ise ‘s ow listi g a d published the o es that failed.

Restau a t.dk lists close to 30,000 estau a ts, cafés, ba s a d hotels ac oss De ma k, with edito ial cove age of the cou t y’s food a d hospitality sce e.

About Restau a t.dk

Restau a t.dk is a Da ish digital di ecto y fo estau a ts, cafés, ba s, hotels a d food- elated busi esses, with close to 30,000 listi gs a d 781 published edito ial a ticles. The platfo m is pa t of the RESTOS etwo k, a ecosystem of hospitality platfo ms built to st e gthe visibility a d digital p ese ce i the No dic food a d beve age secto . De ma k eco ds 1.22 millio mo thly sea ches fo the te m ” estau a t” (Google Ads keywo d data, De ma k, July 2026).

P ess I qui ies

Louiie Wohle ti fo [at] estau a t.dk004550191050https:// estau a t.dkE gdale 4A3100 Ho bækDe ma k