Luxury Calendar October Food and Drink

• This month will see a plethora of new restaurant openings in New York – here are some of the ones we’re most excited about: Eleven Madison Park reopens after a summer-long renovation; La Goulue reopens in a new space with its original fixtures; The Lobster Club, a Japanese-style brasserie moves into the lower level of the Seagrams Building; Scampi will be serving Southern Italian in the Flatiron district; Frenchette will offer a mashup of vintage and modern French in TriBeCa; and swanky cocktail lounge Gibson & Luce opens in the Life Hotel.
• The Newport Beach Wine & Food Festival continues through Oct 1, with food offerings from 40 top restaurants and over 250 varieties of wines, spirits and craft brews
• The Grand Cochon National Finals take place in Chicago; the winner will be crowned “King of Porc.” This is the finale of Cochon 555, a national tour of 14 cities – in each of them, five of the city’s top chefs compete by cooking one whole, heritage breed pig from a local family farm, paired with wines and spirits; proceeds from the event benefit Piggy Bank, an organization dedicated to educating farmers and chefs about heritage pigs – Oct 1
• The 36th anniversary of the Great American Beer Festival is in Denver – Oct 5-7
• Taking place every October since 1963, the Festa do Marisco (Seafood Festival) is held in a picturesque fishing community in Galicia; visitors can sample seafood rice dishes, clams, oysters and baked scallops, and experience the Best Crab and Best Mussel Dish competitions and a unique shellfish parade – Oct 5-15
• The Golden Spurtle is a competition held since 1996 in the Scottish Highlands village of Carrbridge, where local chefs compete to win the best porridge recipe prize – entries can be both sweet (sticky toffee) or savory (lemon, thyme and Parmesan) – Oct 7
• The Alba International White Truffle Market in the small northwestern Italian town of Piedmontese will see hundreds of tasters visit to experience cooking demonstrations, wine tastings and truffle sensory analyses; savory and sweet dishes laced with truffles are on offer, and the fair ends with an invitation-only truffle auction, which only the who’s who of the food world can attend – Oct 8-Nov 27
• As the largest producer of sweet chestnuts in France with 62 different varieties, the annual Castagnades Chestnut Festival in the Ardeche region is a foodie paradise: chestnuts are sold fresh, turned into confectionery as glazed marron glaces, converted into a brown flour and brewed into a beer or a highly alcoholic liqueur. Rather than one long event, there are 1-2 day chestnut festivals in different villages throughout the region: 11 festivals are scheduled for this autumn – Oct 8-Nov 12
• Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook is the first one from the eponymous independent magazine about women and food; it includes more than 100 recipes – Oct 10
• Wine & Spirits magazine will host its annual Top 100 at City View at Metreon; for the last 13 years, the “Top 100” have received at least two 92+ wine scores within a given year, ensuring an extraordinary selection of bottles accompanied by small bites from acclaimed San Francisco chefs – Oct 10
• Clos Montmartre vineyard, nestled in the hills of Montmartre, is a tiny relic of the once abundant vineyards that flourished in the northern Parisian neighborhood; once a year, all of Montmartre celebrates the Fete des Vendanges de Montmartre — the Grape Harvest festival celebrating the new Cuvée Montmartre vintage wine – Oct 11-15
• The New York City Wine & Food Festival celebrates its 10^th year – Oct 12-15
• Held since 1993, EuroChocolate in Perugia, Italy is one of the largest chocolate festivals in Europe, attracting nearly a million visitors each year. It features chocolate tastings, chocolate art, chocolate sculpting and chocolate-themed musical and theater performances – Oct 13 – 22
• The 18^th annual Blue Food Festival in the coastal village of Bloody Bay, on the Caribbean island of Tobago, focuses on dishes using dasheen, a root plant of the taro variety, eaten in abundance in the region because it can be cultivated in flooded conditions, that turns blue when it is ground and cooked; in addition to food tastings, there will be live steel band music, limbo dancing and rum stalls – Oct 15
• The Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand is a nine-day Thai celebration that is part of a general mind and body detoxification process; the faithful hang lanterns outside temples and march through the streets beating drums to drive away evil spirits, and devotees can be seen deep in trance-walking on hot coals, bathing in hot oil or piercing their body parts – Oct 20-28
• The 7^th annual Hawaii Food & Wine Festival will take place over three weekends on Hawaii Island, Maui, and Oahu, with wine tastings, cooking demonstrations, one-of-a-kind excursions, and exclusive dining opportunities with dishes highlighting the state’s local farmers, fishermen, and ranchers – Oct 20-Nov 5
• Held annually in Paris since 1922, the Salon du Chocolate at Port de Versailles attracts prestigious pastry chefs, chocolatiers and confectioners from all over the world; the festival features chocolate tastings, chocolate-making workshops, a pastry show, a chocolate bookshop, a chocolate award show, and even a fashion show where the clothes are made of chocolate – Oct 28-Nov 1

See Other October 2017 Events:

– Travel
– Planes, Yachts & Autos
– Sports & Fitness
– Fashion & Design
– Entertainment
– The Arts

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