Food & Drinks in Leipzig

Indulge in the best restaurants, cafés, street food spots, wine tastings & beer tastings in Leipzig

Leipzig eats well. It wasn't always so obvious, but the city has really turned up its culinary game in recent years and has since proven with impressive regularity that good food doesn't have to be expensive and excellent street food doesn't always take place on the coast. Anyone looking for food events in Leipzig will quickly discover that this city celebrates its markets, food trucks and culinary events with a relaxed seriousness that is simply infectious. Let's start with the most obvious: the weekly market. Leipzig has a total of 14 weekly markets in the city area. The market takes place twice a week directly on the market square in the heart of the city, on Tuesdays and Fridays, with fresh food, flowers and the unmistakable smell of freshly baked bread. For those who prefer to head to the west of the city, the Plagwitz market hall is a fixed address for food culture, Saturday markets and a Friday aperitif that oscillates somewhere between the end of the working day and a short vacation. Plagwitz has the right feel for food culture anyway: the district around Karl-Heine-Straße is full of small cafés, kitchens and concepts that show how food works when people cook with real enthusiasm. For those who like things a little more international, the Street Food Festival Leipzig in the Kohlrabizirkus is a regular highlight in the city's food calendar: food trucks from all over the world, street food in variations that are hard to find anywhere else in Leipzig and an atmosphere that turns the food itself into an event. The Streetfood on Tour Festival, which is a regular guest at the Alte Messe and attracts around 15,000 visitors per edition, offers a similar experience, proving that Leipzig knows how to put on a good table. If you want to combine food with vintage and design, The Market at Täubchenthal in Plagwitz is a format that brings together food trucks, design markets and live music, proving that a good concept is more than the sum of its ingredients. Leipzig is not afraid of good taste, and you can see that at every market, every food truck and every cooking event that this city produces. Take a look at our calendar of events, see what's on the table and go there. Hunger is the best motivation.