The best music festivals for food

Imagine the scene: you were dancing till 5am, you've only had a few nights' kip on hard ground in a damp tent, it's cold and it may well be drizzling, your head's pounding and your mouth feels like the Sahara desert. Then salvation arrives, in the form of one of Le Bun's double-stacked, sauce-slathered, cheese-covered burgers. Or maybe it's crispy, juicy, spicy buttermilk-fried chicken from Spit & Roast. Or even 'tofish' tacos from vegan comfort food joint Club Mexicana, topped with zingy pickled onions with an acidity and flavour that'll get your salivary glands working again. That, friends, is what we call an 'hallelujah' moment – and it's Standon Calling's speciality, as – along with a line up including the likes of Grace Jones, Kate Tempest, and a Faithless DJ set – the festival is all about the food. There'll be a diner from Le Bun, a real ale festival, a stand from Carnival Coffee, and more. Excited? Us, too.

Ravers rejoice: electronic music mecca Sónar has upgraded its food offering so that exhausted, sweaty festival-goers can refuel with top-notch grub. Alongside the standard street-food style offering, the VIP Area restaurant at Sónar by Day will be hosting menus from three Michelin-starred Barcelonian chefs. There'll be creative Japanese-Thai fusion from elBulli alumnus Albert Raurich; slow food from Victor Quintillà of Barcelona's Lluerna; and vegetable-forward cooking from Xavier Pellicer of Céleri. Elsewhere, if you get peckish mid-rave, Sónar by Night will have an array of trucks dishing out everything from organic crêpes to ceviche. Because that's the kind of fuel you need when you've been dancing for eight hours straight.

Ravers rejoice: electronic music mecca Sónar has upgraded its food offering so that exhausted, sweaty festival-goers can refuel with top-notch grub. Alongside the standard street-food style offering, the VIP Area restaurant at Sónar by Day will be hosting menus from three Michelin-starred Barcelonian chefs. There'll be creative Japanese-Thai fusion from elBulli alumnus Albert Raurich; slow food from Victor Quintillà of Barcelona's Lluerna; and vegetable-forward cooking from Xavier Pellicer of Céleri. Elsewhere, if you get peckish mid-rave, Sónar by Night will have an array of trucks dishing out everything from organic crêpes to ceviche. Because that's the kind of fuel you need when you've been dancing for eight hours straight.

Fancy sipping champagne while raving to Aphex Twin? Glugging craft beer while grooving to Frank Ocean? Chowing down on vegan delicacies while listening to the dulcet tones of Sampha? Flow Festival is where you need to be this summer. The largely electronic line up is incredible, plus there'll be more than 40 different high-profile restaurants knocking up an array of delicious dishes while you party the night away. This particular party is all about art, too, so culture vultures take note. Oh and it's in Helsinki – no wonder it sounds so Scandi-cool.

Fancy sipping champagne while raving to Aphex Twin? Glugging craft beer while grooving to Frank Ocean? Chowing down on vegan delicacies while listening to the dulcet tones of Sampha? Flow Festival is where you need to be this summer. The largely electronic line up is incredible, plus there'll be more than 40 different high-profile restaurants knocking up an array of delicious dishes while you party the night away. This particular party is all about art, too, so culture vultures take note. Oh and it's in Helsinki – no wonder it sounds so Scandi-cool.

The Good Life Experience has 'fermenting' on its line up. Yes, really – along with foraging, bread baking and sushi-making workshops. Did someone say hipster? Surely not. But if your passion is reserved for eating rather than making tasty food, you'll find something to suit you here, too – the likes of Thomasina Miers, Anna Jones, Gill Meller, Tom Hunt and Damian Clisby of Petersham Nurseries will all be cooking up delicious dishes to fuel you as you practice tai chi, throw axes or learn how to climb trees. Oh, and there's music – curated by co-founder and BBC DJ Cerys Matthews, no less.

The Good Life Experience has 'fermenting' on its line up. Yes, really – along with foraging, bread baking and sushi-making workshops. Did someone say hipster? Surely not. But if your passion is reserved for eating rather than making tasty food, you'll find something to suit you here, too – the likes of Thomasina Miers, Anna Jones, Gill Meller, Tom Hunt and Damian Clisby of Petersham Nurseries will all be cooking up delicious dishes to fuel you as you practice tai chi, throw axes or learn how to climb trees. Oh, and there's music – curated by co-founder and BBC DJ Cerys Matthews, no less.

Wilderness's foodie credentials need little introduction, but that doesn't make it any less of a fixture in any food lover's calendar. This year, there'll be long-table banquets from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nuno Mendes and Thomasina Miers, as well as pop-up restaurants from Angela Hartnett's Cafe Murano, Petersham Nurseries, Bao, Breddos, Kricket, Frenchie and more. But there's more to Wilderness than food: it's a party that revolves around community, and enriching the soul as well as the body thanks to activities like acroyoga, archery, cabaret and life drawing. We challenge you not to leave it with a smile on your face.

Wilderness's foodie credentials need little introduction, but that doesn't make it any less of a fixture in any food lover's calendar. This year, there'll be long-table banquets from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nuno Mendes and Thomasina Miers, as well as pop-up restaurants from Angela Hartnett's Cafe Murano, Petersham Nurseries, Bao, Breddos, Kricket, Frenchie and more. But there's more to Wilderness than food: it's a party that revolves around community, and enriching the soul as well as the body thanks to activities like acroyoga, archery, cabaret and life drawing. We challenge you not to leave it with a smile on your face.