Experiences you don’t want to miss
There’s much more to EDIBLE than the programme at the MAS. Across three days, discover Edible Antwerp’s Side Events through guided walks, sensory experiences, performances, tastings and a community dinner at locations across the city. Here are the program highlights:
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER
Multicultural Antwerp: Guided Walking Tour, Tasting & Supermarket Safari
🕙 10:00–12:00 | Antwerp Central Station → MAS Museum
Explore multicultural Antwerp through Daphne’s Supermarket Safari, discovering global ingredients and flavours before enjoying bites and tea at FoodforFoodies.
Tender Acts: A Celebration of Softness
🕚 11:00–16:00 | ĀYU Antwerp
Experience food as an act of care through touch, taste, scent and gentle rituals that celebrate softness, pleasure and connection with the body.
ENSEMBLE – Food, Art & Community Dinner
🕕 18:00–21:00 | Lucy’s Antwerp
Experience ENSEMBLE, a pay-what-you-can participatory dinner where food, art, film and storytelling bring different cultures, memories and perspectives together around one shared table.
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
The Sensory Coffee Continuum
🕛 12:00–13:00 & 15:00–16:00 | ĀYU Antwerp
Step into a future where coffee is extinct and explore its flavours, aromas, textures and rituals to recreate the lost sensory experience of coffee.
Cooking Workshops in Preparation of the End of the World #beans
🕧 12:30–13:30 & 19:30–20:30 | Dingen die Niet Verkopen
Discover the surprising world of beans with Sien Vanmaele through an interactive sensory performance, tastings and a shared legume-based meal imagining more sustainable food futures.
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER — WORLD FOOD DAY
Foodpilgrims Heritage Tasting Walk
🕗 08:00–13:00 | Frederik van Eedenplein → Steenplein
Mark UN World Food Day by walking through Antwerp’s food history with De Foodarcheoloog Jeroen Van Vaerenbergh, combining heritage bites, landscape and storytelling on a journey from Rupelmonde back to the city.
Places for these experiences are limited, so book ahead to avoid missing out.
Wondering how to navigate these side activities along with the main program? Move smoothly through Antwerp with our travel and transport tips.