Where can you find more than 50,000 visitors eating grilled food? Where can you find over 300 food vendors offering these visitors such incredible variety? You can find all this in the same place where you\u2019ll find the Estonian grilling championship, the Estonian fishing championship, and even a bikini and beach fitness contest: At Grillfest 2026, in P\u00e4rnu this weekend, 12\u201313 June, located on the Vallik\u00e4\u00e4r meadow by the riverside.<\/p>\n
Since 1999, and since 2012 officially in association with the P\u00e4rnu City Government, Grillfest has been held every year, growing in size and popularity, with the goal of becoming the most renowned food festival in the Nordics and Baltics. This year\u2019s event features Estonia\u2019s top food vendors, as well as vendors from several other countries. The amounts of food and drink measure into the double-digit tonnes, and tens of thousands of litres, respectively.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s event starts at 11:00 with a short musical performance followed by a parade. Throughout the day there will be a festive atmosphere, with many other acts, performances, demonstrations, and workshops. Not to mention cocktails! More or less everything you can imagine will be available at Grillfest. The day however won\u2019t end at midnight with a concert by one of Estonia\u2019s top artists, Getter Jaani<\/b>. Multiple nightclubs will have afterparties.<\/p>\n
Saturday will see a very similar day but with other performers and such. The festival itself will end with a grandiose fireworks display just before midnight.<\/p>\n
The precise schedule is available here<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Estonian, and a general guide to the event is here<\/span><\/a><\/span> in English.<\/p>\n Grillfest is a family-friendly event, and there will be a children\u2019s area with many activities and performances as well. See you there!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where can you find more than 50,000 visitors eating grilled food? Where can you find over 300 food vendors offering … Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":159343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[44,47],"tags":[13168,13625,14404,14744,18560,19758,21187,22898,24936,25011,27648],"class_list":["post-159342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure","category-culture","tag-estonian-food","tag-food","tag-festival","tag-beach-2","tag-grillfest-2","tag-concerts","tag-events-in-parnu","tag-family-friendly-events","tag-family-events","tag-grilling","tag-grilled-food"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t