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Venue: Boston Harbor Hotel at Rowes Wharf
World-class wines, exquisite cuisine, culinary artistry, master class seminars and more. View selected dates via website.
 
Celebrating wine, food, and song, the January 17-February 9, 2025 event will feature the hotel's culinary team, Vintner's Dinners, Jazz Brunch, a roster of premium wines from around the world, and napa wine luminaries.

The New England Made Giftware & Specialty Food Show (March 15-17, 2025)
Featuring gourmet mixes, baked goods, books, home decor and much more.

This is not a public event, for qualified retail buyers ONLY.

Venue: Boston Park Plaza
Showcasing wines from around the world, seminars, tasting classes taught by expert sommeliers.
 
Features daily (except for Thursdays) guided tasting tours of the farm's cheddars, a visit with their Brown Swiss Cows, knowledge of farm care, open-air wagon transportation. 

Taking place the first Friday of each month.
 
A world-class epicurean celebration, featuring distinguished winemakers and chefs.
 
Enjoy a sampling of oysters and chowder from local growers and vendors on the waterfront, live entertainment.
 
Flavors of Martha's Vineyard: A Food History Symposium (June 2-4, 2023)
Martha's Vineyard Museum is hosting this event, which will explore the past, present, and future of the Island’s diverse food cultures. The conference panel will comprise of nationally recognized thinkers, writers, chefs, advocates, fisherman. Also featuring a hands-on workshop and curated meals. 
 
Featuring a taste of 50 wines from 14 vineyards, exquisite cheeses, artisanal chocolates, local artisan products.
 
New England VegFest (June 1, 2025)
Venue: Worcester State University
Event will feature cooking demos, plant-based merchandise, inspiring speakers and more.
 
Taste world-class wines, meet local winemakers and chefs, enjoy delectable wine dinners, wine sailing, lunches, and brunches.
 
 
Features Jamaican jerk spice food, jerk kick-off competitions, specialty foods, live entertainment.
 
A celebration of Maine's agricultural heritage, the week-long event features delicious food, athletic events, rides for kids, fireworks, and more.
 
The Garden Dining Series at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill will feature botanical dining experiences, live wood fire culinary delights and more, from July through December.
Maine Lobster Festival (July 30-August 3, 2025)
Cooking contests, parade, fabulous food, Maine arts & crafts. Enjoy five days of fun-packed activities.
 
Serving up clams, lobster rolls, shore dinners, homemade pies, arts and crafts, kids activities and more.
 
Have a passion for baking or an interest? Learn about the art and science of growing and milling grains, baking artisan breads, and beer.
 
Annual Charlestown Seafood Festival (August 1, 2 & 3, 2025)
This gastronomic extravaganza features the best of Rhode Island seafood. There will be arts and crafts displays, a car show, kayaking, lobster raffle, and more fun activities to participate in.

Sunflowers, Sips & Sunsets at Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze (August 2, 9, 16 and 23rd 2024)
Enjoy a walk among the sunflowers, butterflies, and the beautiful Orchard Hills in view; wine tasting from three Connecticut wineries.

5th Annual Wild Blueberry Weekend in Maine (August 2-3, 2025)
Wild blueberries farm tours, family-friendly activities and more.

The Cape Cod Central Railroad and Cape Cod Winery Gourmet Wine Tasting Train (August 8, 2025)
Departing from Buzzards Bay at 6pm, the three-hour ride will feature six appetizers and six 3-ounce pairings of wine from Cape Cod Winery; beer will be available for non-wine drinkers. A wine educator will be onboard.

Vermont's 14th Annual Taste of Woodstock (August 9, 2025)
A free street festival featuring over 50 vendors, favorite Vermont provisions, wine, beer, spirits, music, entertainment, arts, crafts, and a kids’activity tent.

Lyman Orchards' Peach Festival (August 9, 2025)
Corn Maze and Donut Festival (August 30-31, 2025)
View these Connecticut August events, and more at Lyman Orchards.

Maine Open Winery Day (August 16, 2025)
Join the Maine Winery Guild for a day of tours, tastings and events with participating wineries.

The Boston Sailing Center offers informal racing with BBQ, refreshments.
 
Fromage Wine Bar & Restaurant in South Boston is offering an "All-You-Can-Eat Cheese and Charcuterie with A Glass of Wine" on March 27, 2025
 
Wells Chili-Fest - Maine (August 23, 2025)
Festival will feature cook-offs in various categories; winners may qualify for World Championship Cook-offs.
 
Featuring specialty foods, artisan products, craft beverage producers, antique tractors, live entertainment, fine art and more.
 
Hampton Beach Seafood Festival - New Hampshire (September 5, 6 & 7, 2025)
A lobster roll eating contest, culinary chef demonstrations, arts and crafts, entertainment and more.
 
Rhode Island Seafood Festival (September 6 & 7, 2025)
Venue: Indian Point Park, Providence, Rhode Island
The Ocean State's premier event will feature the best local purveyors of seafood and other fine fare, as well as beer, wine and spirits from local producers.
 
Vermont Cheese Week
The state of Vermont is home to a large number of cheesemakers. Meet the artisans, enjoy a showcase of fine cheeses, local food. Event will feature cheese camps, visits to farms and creameries, dinners, classes and much more. This year's event takes place on September 6-13, 2025
 
Boston Seafood Festival (September 10, 2023) 
Sample the best of Boston seafood, attend chef demonstrations and more.

Wine, Women & Watches (September 12, 2024)
Venue: American Clock and Watch Museum in Connecticut
Featuring wine and hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, prize drawings, festivities in the museum galleries, and more.

Join the Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for a wine festival in historic style. 
 
Chickenstock Music Festival (September 13, 2025)
Venue: Hein Farm in Farmington, CT
Music, food trucks, wine and beer, farm activities and more.

Chef  demonstrations, a seafood throw-down, family fun zone, New England village and much more.

Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival (September 19-21, 2025)
Venue: Rosecliff
World-class wines, seminars with leading wine experts, wine-pairing dinners, and much more.

Enjoy wine tastings, farm to table dining experiences, soup contest, shopping, hiking and more, in the pictureques Deerfield Valley..

Taste of Kittery (September 21, 2024)
Experience Kittery, Maine's vibrant restaurant community, live entertainment. 

Rhode Island Calamari Festival (September 21, 2024)
Make your way to Narragansett and celebrate the "Official State Appetizer" with tastings, vote for your favorite calamari offerings from local restaurants. The festivities also include food trucks, shopping, kids activities, and music.  

The Ocean State Oyster Festival (October 5, 2024)
Raising awareness of and celebrating Rhode Island's aquaculture industry.
 
Berkshire Botanical Garden's Annual Harvest Festival (October 11-12, 2025)
A celebration of the autumn harvest, featuring craft-vendors, a botanical bakery, beer garden, food trucks, plant sale and more.

Martha's Vineyard Food & Wine Festival (October 16-19, 2025)
A showcase of wines from around the world and foods prepared by chefs from Martha’s Vineyard and beyond. Meet local culinary talent, the farmers, fishermen and artisans they work with.
 
Innovative food, local libations and music are part of the festivities. 
 
Honoring the “Harvest of the Sea,” the Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival offers fresh, local seafood —Fish tacos, lobster rolls, stuffies, chowder, fried calamari, clams, oysters, signature cocktails and cold beer accompany continuous live music, and family fun.
 
Celebrate Wellfleet's shellfishing tradtions; enjoy the town's famous oysters, clams and more.
 
Harvest on the Harbor (October 30-November 1, 2025)
Experience the flavors of Maine — Harvest on the Harbor showcases Maine's top chefs and fishermen, restaurants and marketplace of food artisans, wineries, breweries, distilleries, epicurean purveyors & Maine-made products. 
 
Luxury Chateaux and Relais property Winvian, in Morris, Connecticut, is hosting an Arietta Wine Dinner on April 10, 2025.

List will be updated as more 2025 events/dates are announced.

Know of an exciting food and wine event/festival in New England, not shown on this list? Feel free to submit for publication. Write to newenglandfoodadventures (at) gmail (dot) com.



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