{"id":150650,"date":"2025-09-02T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=150650"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:16:59","slug":"saaremaa-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/saaremaa-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Saaremaa Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Saaremaa is unquestionably one of the most popular destinations in Estonia, and even though summer is winding down, now is possibly the best time of all to go! For nine days various locations throughout Saaremaa and the island of Muhu will be celebrating the Saaremaa Food Festival. This event offers delicious delicacies both from near and abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Almost every day of the festival will show street vendors at local fairs selling the islanders\u2019 best food wares, from honey and jam to spice mixes and a massive selection of unique breads. This year\u2019s special theme will be Hungarian cuisine, notably <i>authentic<\/i> goulash! The first day of the Saaremaa Food Festival will feature a bonfire and preparing goulash right over the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The second day is Market Day, with a special selection of local goods to feast on. The following Monday is Restaurant Week, with many of the islands\u2019 best restaurants providing special offers for lunch and dinner. Specials include Muhu bread with chanterelles, French cuisine, and even a Mexican menu. More than 16 restaurants are participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Wednesday will have the MO Saaremaa Kissel Run, a one-kilometre fun run for children and adults alike. After all the delicious food you\u2019ll be eating, it might not be a bad idea to run, jog, or even walk in this event, which is part of the \u201cGetting Healthier Through Physical Activities\u201d campaign. The evening will conclude with tours of Kuressaare, and many tales and stories about the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Toward the end of the week will be the \u201cVisit Villages\u201d tour, which is exactly as it sounds: a prepared route through several villages on the islands with fun activities and foods at each destination. And finally, the last day of the Saaremaa Food Festival will have Apple Caf\u00e9s Day, during which several caf\u00e9s\u2014even one-day caf\u00e9s by people who have always dreamed of what it would be like to run their own caf\u00e9\u2014will offer pastries and other products that contain\u2026apples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The complete programme for the Saaremaa Food Festival is available <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/saaremaatoidufestival.ee\/en\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and entry to most events is free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Saaremaa is unquestionably one of the most popular destinations in Estonia, and even though summer is winding down, now &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":130988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[13217,13583,14309,14454,15031,19350,25119],"class_list":["post-150650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-kuressaare-2","tag-saaremaa-2","tag-muhu-2","tag-restaurants","tag-food-festival","tag-saaremaa-food-festival","tag-events-in-saaremaa"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150651,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150650\/revisions\/150651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}