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Concerts & Seasonal Happenings
Plan your season around the concerts, awards nights and festivals worth travelling for, from Oasis and the Oscars to Christmas in Copenhagen and Midsummer in Stockholm. Filter the calendar by month, region or event type.
London’s Craft Food Revival
From stone-milled sourdough in Hackney to Texas brisket in Leyton and railway-arch wineries in Battersea, London’s makers now produce inside the city and sell across their own counters. Here are 14 stops, a two-day programme and five lessons for food retail teams.
Meet our new research partner: IGD
A2D has partnered with IGD, the food and grocery research charity founded in 1909. Discover how IGD insight will strengthen our content and add optional expert briefings and retail safaris to your Food Innovation Travel.
New York’s Micro-Openings: Big Bets in Small Spaces
Inside three of New York’s smallest, boldest restaurant openings, from a Michelin chef’s gluten-free izakaya to the Cronut inventor’s newest bakery, and what they reveal about testing big ideas in tiny spaces.
Global Flavours: Four Trending Shifts
Fujianese cooking, a lighter Jägermeister, the date snack boom and the race to make lamb a luxury: four flavour shifts food retail teams can explore on a short trip from Northern Europe.
New York’s Markets: Where the City Actually Shops
From an Uzbek buffet counter in the West Village to a cyberpunk-styled night market in Flushing, New York’s most revealing food stops are its markets, supermarkets and food halls, not its restaurants.
Tokyo: A Summer of Food Innovation
Inside Tokyo’s summer of food innovation: FamilyMart’s queue-worthy Famima Park flagship, five essential kakigori and dessert spots, matcha’s supply squeeze, and how Tokyo’s Neapolitan pizza scene is exporting itself to Manhattan.
Unusual Food Innovations
A dog-only tasting menu in Lyon. A quiet exodus of chefs and bakers into rural Sweden. Berlin kitchens that refuse to source beyond city limits. And in Venice, a Michelin-starred chef turning a €2.9 million ecological crisis into an autumn menu.
