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GRILL AND BBQ EVENTS 2025
Are you looking for the most important BBQ events of 2025? Then you've come to the right place! Our FIRE&FOOD event calendar features the most important dates for grilling and barbecue. In addition to grill trade fairs and other grill events, you'll also find dates for national and international grill championships and barbecue competitions. Whether it's GBA, SCA, or KCBS, we'll tell you where and when the best pitmasters and grill masters will compete in 2025. Who will grill the best steak? Who will be the new grill king? Be there and find out firsthand! Or participate in the competitions yourself with your BBQ team! Mark your calendars for the big events in the BBQ scene! Plan your trade fair visit, your grilling course, your competition participation, and enjoy the anticipation of events that celebrate the BBQ lifestyle!
January
January 28-February 2, 2025: Hunting & Dog Fair with Wild Food Festival in Dortmund
February
01.-02.02.2025: WEST – Winter Extreme in Kasern, Prettau/ITA
Championships:
01.-02.02.2025: (KCBS/SCA) WEST – Winter Extreme in Kasern, Prettau/ITA
March
March 14-16, 2025: Rauch & Glut BBQ Lifestyle Fair in Freiburg
March 14-18, 2025: Internorga in Hamburg (trade fair)
March 19-23, 2025: IBO Spring Fair on Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen
March 29-30, 2025: Outdoor Adventure Days 2025 in Wieselburg/AT
03/29-04/01/2025: BBQ Expo Brescia (Italy)
Championships:
15.03.2025: (GBA) Baden-Württemberg State Barbecue Championship in Freiburg/D
22.03.2025: (GBA) International Lake Constance Grill Championship in Friedrichshafen/D
April
April 4-6, 2025: Barbecue Expo in Paris (France)
April 24th-27th, 2025: BBQ Days in Stuttgart
Championships:
06.04.2025: (GBA) Schleswig-Holstein State Barbecue Championship in Neumünster/D
April 26-27, 2025: (KCBS) Spitsbroek on Fire Pt. 2 in Eede/NL
26.04.2025: (n. cert.) Thuringian Grill Battle 2024 in Bad Langensalza/D
27.04.2025: (GBA) German Fish Grill Championship in Bremerhaven/D
May
May 14-17, 2025: Memphis in May International Festival in Memphis/USA
May 29th, 2025: FIRE&FOOD BBQ DAY in Bayreuth (DE)
Championships:
03.-04.05.2025: (SBA) Swiss Barbecue Championship in Lucerne/CH
May 10, 2025: (GBA) Vegan German Grill Championship in Bad Windsheim (more information to follow)
10.05.2025: (GBA) State Barbecue Championship Berlin/Brandenburg at Filmpark Babelsberg
May 17-18, 2025: (KCBS) Mühlviertler BBQ Festival in Freistadt/AT
18.05.2025: (GBA) State Grill Championship NRW in Bielefeld/D
May 24th, 2025: (GBA) Brandenburg Game Barbecue Championship in MAFZ Paaren-Glien
31.05.2025: (GBA) Lower Saxony State Barbecue Championship on Norderney
May 17-18, 2025: (KCBS) Twin Smoke in Wilna (Vilnius)/LIT
June
20-22 June 2025: BBQ at the National Stadium Bucharest (Romania)
24-26 June 2025: Spoga & Gafa Garden Fair in Cologne (trade fair)
Championships:
01.06.2025: (GBA) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Barbecue Championship in Rostock
June 7-8, 2025: (KCBS) UK BBQ Championship in Cheltenham/UK
June 15-16, 2025: (KCBS) The War of Barbeque in Peschiera del Garda/ITA
June 28-29, 2025: (KCBS) Riverland Smokers BBQ Contest in Dodewaard/NL
July
05.-06.07.2025: Smoke & Fire Festival , Ascot (UK)
Championships:
July 26-27, 2025: (GBA) German Barbecue Championship in Gräfenhainichen/Ferropolis
August
August 8th - 10th, 2025: Food Rock Festival in Krickenbach
August 16-17, 2025: Smoke & Fire Festival , Ascot (UK)
Championships:
August 15-16, 2025: (KCBS) BBQ Festival in Vanamoisa, EST
August 22-23, 2025: (KCBS) Smoke in the North in Rolfstorp, SWE
September
September 5-7, 2025: FIRE&FOOD BBQ WEEK 2025 in Cologne (Motorworld Cologne-Rhineland)
September 19-21, 2025: THE HUBERT – Hunting Fair Baden-Württemberg in Metzingen (Motorworld)
Championships:
20.09.2025: (GBA) State Barbecue Championship Saxony-Anhalt in Colbitz/D
20.09.2025: (GBA) Bavarian State Barbecue Championship in Teising/D
21.09.2025: (n. cert.) NRW Grill Championship in Krefeld/D
October
October 3-5, 2025: GrillGut BBQ event as part of the HanseLife trade fair in Bremen
Championships:
05.10.2025: (GBA) Bremen State Barbecue Championship in Bremen/D
November
November 21st, 2025: FIRE&FOOD BBQ DAY in Vienna (AT)
Championships:
November 29-30, 2025: (WBQA) Intercontinental BBQ Championship in Viña del Mar/Chile
December
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The current status of the dates: 07.01.2025
We regularly update the Grill & BBQ Events 2025. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy of the information.
