The Best Vegan Food Festivals to Visit

VegFest is one of the largest vegan festivals held in Latin America, the event is said to have over 100 exhibitors. They also included a thematic escape room. Everything at this event is 100% vegan. Many expect they will have over 8,000 attendees in 2024. They also offer free yoga and meditation sessions at this four-day food festival. 

This free event makes it the perfect choice for someone looking at either a vegan or a plant-based lifestyle. Over 200 food stalls, wares, and other wonders ensure that you won’t get bored—not in the two days it’s held. Some of the foods that you can expect to encounter here include Himalayan momo, baklava, Turkish delight, vegan mock meat, risottos, and chocolates. 

Enjoy delicious plant-based and vegan food selections with Soul Food, Caribbean, Cajun, Afro-Hispanic, Creole and low country desserts. The Soul Vegan Food Festival is considered one of the best urban-centric plant-based food, spirit, and wellness festivals that has celebrated Black History Month since 2018. The festival seeks to bring you true vegan gastronomical delights that are the best of the best.

Berkeley has a reputation as being one of the best places to travel for the most creative plant-based meals on the planet. Despite a great reputation as a vegan hotspot, they didn’t start their first vegan food festival until 2021. At the Bizerkeley Food Festival, you can expect up to 70 vegan-friendly vendors, games, and even a vegan fashion show. They also plan to have a silent auction to aid the Herd & Flock Animal Sanctuary. 

Considered one of the best vegan food festivals in Africa, the Plant Powered Show features some of South Africa’s top vegan chefs. They also have a hands-on cooking experience where you’ll learn lots of fun tips and tricks. You’ll also find many free treats and taste samples at this event. Some of the foods you can try here include Mexican sweet corn soup, potato smiles, Thai glass noodles with peanut sauce, and coconut broth with herbed falafels. 

One of the biggest performing arts festivals in the world, you’ll also find that they offer some wonderful vegan food at the Glastonbury Festival. For sure, check out the Green Fields area of the festival, which is entirely meat-free. Here, you can find all sorts of varieties like vegan tacos, vegan nachos, vegan crepes, jackfruit burritos, and many more options.

The biggest Indian vegan festival in Mumbai is the Ahimsa Festival. This festival is planned for over 18 days worth of events and activities. They have over 100 stalls with vegan clothing, shoes, food, protein supplements, and much more. Here you can try plant-based cheeses, chocolates, and ice cream.

With an estimated 19% of Australia considering themselves plant-based, it’s not surprising that this country would have some great vegan festivals. At Alive Festival, they offer free yoga sessions and live music with vegan entertainers and DJs make this a good festival. This is a free plant-based festival. The food here is everything based on the vegan foods of the Central Coast of Australia. They run it twice a year, so even if you miss it once, you can always try for the second time that year.

Having over 100 vendors and over 100 media partners, you can see Chinese celebrities in attendance. The festival showcases the vegan lifestyle, vegan fashion, vegan food, vegan beauty products, and even vegan art. The vegan market in China continues to grow, and this may have been what spurred the opening of this festival. It’s the first vegan festival put together in all of China. 

The first vegan camping festival in Australia, this festival will feature talks, fire dancing performances, live music, workshops, yoga, and fitness classes. When it first began in 2016, they only had 400 people in attendance. In 2023 Vegan Camp Out Australia recorded over 12,000 people in attendance, and that number will likely continue to grow. This three-day and two-night event features some of Australia’s best vegan foods.