Festival start with the Meet & Taste in the Kartäuserkirche on 30.08.

Sold out! Even the last available tickets were snapped up within a few minutes.

The culinary programme stands and is yesterday to find.

Unfortunately, Luis Diaz had to cancel his participation due to a family bereavement.

A huge thank you goes out to all supporters of the opening:

Vaux Castle
van Nahmen
the Klumpp winery, which is taking part with the festival wines (and more)
Gerolsteiner
Sion Kölsch and Peters Kölsch
GLISS Caffee
Middendorf International Wines
Ginsanity
Wein Wolf et al. with Bruno | Karthäuserhof

Our supporters enrich the culinary programme:
Silver Fern Farms
Express delivery
Möllers 
Big Green Egg
FrischeParadies

The waiting staff come from the participating businesses,
ServiceAllstars and
Pacito Perso

Kentaur | Rheintex is supporting the festival with outfits.

The festival wines, the 2026 FFDC glass and the FFDC cookbook „Genial einfach“ will be available for purchase on Sunday.

Our partners Luis Rüsing and be-a-star create photos and films.

Cologne Tourism has supported the festival for years – this year, among other things, with the 2026 collector's glass.