Running since 1921, the Dijon fair is among the oldest and largest gastronomic fairs in France: around five hundred exhibitors across food, wine and general trade, a guest country invited each year to bring its producers and cooking, and a competitive programme of regional products. It sits inside the Burgundy food economy — mustard, cassis, Charolais beef, the Côte d'Or vineyards — and functions as that economy's annual shop window.
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It runs eleven days in early November, taking in two weekends, which spreads the crowd more comfortably than a three-day event.
Dijon is a little under two hours from Paris by TGV, and the fair coincides with the start of the Burgundy season that culminates in the Trois Glorieuses at Beaune a fortnight later — the two can be combined, with forty minutes of train between them.
PlanningSeasonal window across eleven days in early November, spanning two weekends.