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EventChefs on Fire 2026
PortugalPortugal’s Finest Open-Flame Festival Returns to Cascais
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EventHot Luck 2026: Aaron Franklin's Austin Food and Music Festival Goes Autumn
USAHot Luck is unlike any other food festival on the American calendar. Created by James Beard Award-winning pitmaster Aaron Franklin of Franklin Barbecue, Austin venue owner James Moody, and Feast Portland co-founder Mike Thelin, it describes itself as a DIY casserole of the culinary and music worlds, and that description is more accurate than most festival marketing.
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EventTexas Open Fire Meat Up 2026: All-You-Can-Eat Live Fire Cooking on a Hondo Ranch
USAThere's no competition format and no judging panel. It's a celebration of fire, smoke, and the community built around both.
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EventWorld’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest 2027: Houston’s 250-Team Cook-Off Inside Rodeo Houston
USAThe World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest, presented by Cotton Holdings, is one of the largest barbecue competitions on earth, drawing more than 250 teams to NRG Park as part of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
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EventWindy City Smokeout
USAThe Windy City Smokeout sits in a category of its own among American BBQ festivals. Organised by Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, it bills itself as the nation’s best in country music, BBQ, and beer – and unlike events that lean heavily on one of those three pillars, this one genuinely delivers on all of them.
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Embers Fire Cooking School
UKTucked into the woodlands of Coalbrookdale, a five minute walk from Ironbridge high street, Embers Cafe has built its entire identity around fire.
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Sam & Shauna: BBQ Masterclasses in a Welsh Backyard Kitchen with the Hang Fire Girls
UKTwo of the UK's most celebrated outdoor cooking experts run their BBQ school from their own back garden in Llantwit Major, and it shows in every part of the experience.
The Smokin' Elk BBQ School
UKTucked away in the Hampshire village of Cowplain, just outside Portsmouth and Waterlooville, sits one of the most sought-after BBQ schools in the country.
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