ROOTS African Food Festival
2025
Edition 2025 — Finished
Edition 2025 — ROOTS African Food Festival
Review 2025
Over six dates between April and September 2025, the ROOTS festival attracted a growing circle of Hamburg visitors – both the African diaspora and a broad urban audience that has discovered African food culture in recent years. Each edition brought together rotating pop-up stalls with West African, East African, South African, and North African cuisine, along with DJ sets and live acts.
In the Eimsbüttel district, the festival established itself in 2025 as a regular venue for open-air enjoyment with African roots – a conscious addition to the numerous classic summer festivals of the Hanseatic city.
Published by Valentin Contard, festival listings writer. Reviewed, corrected and approved by Christophe Contard, editor-in-chief. .