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5th Vilnius Pink Soup Fest (fifth anniversary)
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Vilnius Pink Soup Fest - 2024
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Baltasis tiltas (White Bridge), Vilnius, plus various venues across the city, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Event Details
- Date & Time
- Saturday, June 01, 2024
- Location
- Tymo Market, Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
About This Event
Vilnius turns pink for a festival built around šaltibarščiai, the chilled beetroot and kefir soup that Lithuanians eat all summer. Restaurants, cafes and bars across the city serve their own versions, and there is a Pink Soup Parade through the Old Town. Started in 2023, it has grown from a one-day event around Tymo Market into a three-day festival. Check the official programme for the venue map and what is on each day.
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Organizer
- Go Vilnius
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Location
Tymo Market, Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
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What's on
On Saturday 1 June 2024, the first day of summer, the second Pink Soup Fest drew about 42,000 people, nearly three times the first year. Its headline was a record attempt: a pink-covered table 362 metres long, laid with the support of the retailer Maxima, where 1,200 guests sat down to eat šaltibarščiai together, setting two Lithuanian records (longest table, most people eating pink soup at once). These are national records, entered in the Lithuanian Records Book 2025, not Guinness World Records. A shared pink-soup table also linked Vilnius with the Polish city of Lublin through the Vilnius-Lublin portal, and a spontaneous music duel between Vilnius and Riga over šaltibarščiai made news abroad. The giant foam slide and the soup bowl for children stayed visitors' favourites. Foreign media reached an estimated audience of more than 425 million, with photos in The Guardian and Reuters picture galleries. Go Vilnius announced the next date, 31 May 2025, the following week.
On the menu
- Šaltibarščiai (cold beetroot soup)