Food & Drink

Kanazawa – – September 30, 2026 -- Roughly 40 vendors will gather at Shiinoki Ryokuchi park in Kanazawa, Japan, for the two-day KANAZAWA Oishii Festa 2026, running Saturday, October 17 through Sunday, October 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This year's theme centers on fermented food, with 23 food vendors serving dishes made exclusively for the event under the banner "Local Ingredients and Fermentation." Dishes will feature Kaga vegetables, heirloom varieties grown in the region since before 1945, alongside local seafood, all flavored with Ōno soy sauce brewed in Kanazawa's Ōno district since the early 1600s and Kaga miso made with rice koji.

Visitors Can Sample Local Sake, Craft Beer and Original Cocktails

The drink lineup includes sake from Kanazawa, craft beer and original cocktails, giving attendees the option to eat their way through the festival or simply relax on the lawn.

Los Angeles – September 29, 2026 -- Nonprofit Unlikely Collaborators will host flavor chemist Melissa Conklin for a free public talk on October 13, examining why the same bite of food can taste completely different to two people.

The event, called "Taste, Scent, and Perception Box," takes place at the organization's Santa Monica headquarters and will also stream online. Doors open at 5:00 p.m., the program starts promptly at 6:00 p.m. with no late entry, and a reception follows at 7:00 p.m. Registration is required but attendance is free.

Newark, N.J. – September 29, 2026 -- SNICKERS and adidas are releasing their first joint football cleat, the ADIZERO ELECTRIC + II, priced at $180 and landing exclusively at adidas.com/us/football-cleats starting October 10 in limited quantities.

The cleat hides a Halloween twist inside a chocolate-brown shell

The design pairs SNICKERS' signature chocolate-brown colorway with adidas' Adizero platform, built with a synthetic and textile upper for a snug, adaptive fit and a lightweight build meant for speed and agility. A lace closure keeps the shoe secure, while a ghoulish green insole and a SNICKERS lace charm nod to the approaching Halloween season.

Denver – September 29, 2026 -- The Beef. It's What's For Dinner. brand has launched a new video series called One Ingredient, Endless Cultures, tracing how beef shapes iconic dishes worldwide, from birria to bolognese to bulgogi.

The series organizes recipes into three global categories

The videos group dishes under Beef Sandwiches, Beef & Noodles, and Beef Pastries & Dumplings, each anchored by a standout recipe tied to a specific culinary tradition.

Featured dishes include Beef French Dip with Au Jus, an American classic pairing tender beef and toasted bread with au jus for dipping. A Bavarian Beef Schnitzel with Warm Tangy Slaw draws on Germany's schnitzel-and-spaetzle tradition, while Asian-Style Beef Sausage Pot Stickers echo Japan's gyoza, pan-seared with a crisp bottom and tender beef filling inside.

Cleveland – September 28, 2026 -- Rocket Arena, home to the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, has opened Delia's, a fried chicken and JoJo concession stand on its Street Level concourse near Portal 26, timed to the Cavaliers' first preseason home game of the 2026-27 season.

Cordelia's team built a faster, arena-ready version of its East 4th Street restaurant

Delia's comes from three-time James Beard Award nominee Chef Vinnie Cimino and proprietor Andrew Watts, the duo behind Cordelia and ROSY in Cleveland. Rather than replicate Cordelia's full menu, Delia's narrows its focus to crispy fried and grilled chicken, sandwiches called Handys, JoJos and house-made sauces designed for high-volume concourse service.

"Delia's is Cordelia made faster and more casual, but with the same heart," said Cimino, adding the goal was food fans could spot across the concourse and eat quickly without losing the sense it was made with care.

Newport Beach, Calif. – September 28, 2026 -- Chipotle Mexican Grill is bringing back its discontinued margarita for one weekend in October at five restaurants, pouring $6 drinks to fans who have spent years asking for its return on social media.

The margarita returns to one restaurant every weekend this month

Called the "Summon the Spirits Tour," the pop-up campaign kicks off in Denver on October 2 and 3, then moves to Brooklyn on October 9 and 10, Dallas on October 16 and 17, Los Angeles on October 23 and 24, and finishes in New Orleans on October 30 and 31. Each stop runs from 3 to 9 p.m. local time, and the drink is limited to guests 21 and older.

Vermont – September 28, 2026 -- Ben & Jerry's is donating $1 from every freshly baked waffle cone sold during a two-week program to grassroots organizations focused on civic engagement ahead of the midterm elections.

The campaign, called Waffle Lotta Good, directs proceeds to community groups nationwide.

These organizations work on voter registration, access to election information, and strengthening community participation in the democratic process. The initiative runs for two weeks at participating Scoop Shops.

Ben & Jerry's Social Mission Director frames the purchase as a form of civic action.

"Grassroots organizing is the most powerful tool we have against the erosion of democracy," said Carleen Pickard, Ben & Jerry's Social Mission Director. She said customers buying a waffle cone directly fund activists who "build that power from the ground up," including people who knock on doors and register voters.

Miami – September 28, 2026 -- Popeyes is rolling out a new $5 sandwich, the Honey Chicken Biscuit, at participating locations nationwide starting September 28.

The sandwich combines three menu staples into one handheld item

The Honey Chicken Biscuit pairs Popeyes' fried chicken with an enlarged version of its buttermilk biscuit and two sachets of sweet honey sauce. The company says the price may vary by location.

Popeyes says the idea came from how fans already order

According to Popeyes, customers have long combined the chain's chicken, biscuits and honey on their own, including on social media. The company's culinary team built an official sandwich around that existing customer habit.

St. Paul, Minn. – September 28, 2026 -- James Beard Award-winning author Hank Shaw has released a fully updated edition of his venison cookbook, Buck, Buck, Moose, ten years and more than 100,000 copies after the original launched.

The 336-page hardcover adds 30 new recipes and modern cooking methods

The reboot brings the total recipe count to 125, alongside roughly 200 color photographs and updated guidance for cooking deer, elk, moose, caribou, pronghorn and other antlered game. Shaw said the book needed to change because venison cooking itself has changed over the past decade, drawing on more hunting, cooking and teaching experience since the first edition.

Louisville – September 28, 2026 -- Angel's Envy will release its Cellar Collection Volume 6, a rye whiskey finished in both peach brandy and toasted oak barrels, nationwide on October 9, 2026, priced at $199.99 per 750 mL bottle.

Master Distiller Owen Martin uses two finishing stages for the first time in the series

Created by Master Distiller Owen Martin, Volume 6 marks the first Cellar Collection release to undergo two distinct finishing processes rather than one. The blend of rye whiskeys spends 15 to 23 months in peach brandy barrels or 6 to 12 months in toasted oak barrels before blending, with total aging ranging between 8 and 11 years.