Coachella 2025 food lineup is stacked with heavy hitters. Here are the spots to visit

It’s not conscionable residents and section bands emptying retired of Los Angeles and trekking to Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this year. Some of the region’s champion restaurants and chefs are joining them too.

Fans volition alert successful from each implicit the globe for the three-day festival that’s acceptable to instrumentality implicit Indio’s Empire Polo Club from April 11-13 and April 18-20, with superstar headliners Lady Gaga, Charli XCX and Megan Thee Stallion performing alongside rising acts.

Now successful its 24th year, the festival’s nutrient and beverage programme has travel to garner astir arsenic overmuch attraction arsenic the philharmonic lineup, and adjacent a wide admittance summons grants entree to galore nutrient halls, immersive drinking dens and culinary activations.

A tented nutrient bazaar with views of the Outdoor Stage, Indio Central Market returns with 15 concepts, including Roy Choi’s newest taqueria Tacos Por Vida, location to 1 of the champion al pastor tacos successful L.A., alongside Kogi, Choi’s long-running nutrient motortruck that weaves Korean power with thoroughfare nutrient favorites, resulting successful dishes similar loaded Korean barbecue nachos.

In the aforesaid structure, you’ll besides find Florentine-style sandwiches connected fresh-baked schiacciata breadstuff astatine All’Antico Vinaio; combo plates with vibrant bluish jasmine atom and yellowish curry astatine Farmhouse Thai Kitchen; plant-based pizza astatine Forever Pie; Philadelphia-style rolled crystal pick from Happy Ice and creamy scoops from McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream; and erstwhile it’s clip to refuel, caput to Indio-based Everbloom Coffee for a caffeine boost oregon #Juicebae to reconstruct with alkaline, cold-pressed juices.

General admittance guests should besides question retired Pizza Remix, a pop-up from Postmates and Prince St. Pizza, for constricted slices inspired by section restaurants. Blending elements of a pizza parlor with a signaling studio, the centrally located abstraction volition diagnostic a retro photograph booth and service unsocial cocktails on with 2 remixed slices. One enactment is made successful collaboration with the Boiling Crab and dressed with the seafood chain’s signature Whole She-Bang sauce, mozzarella, shrimp and smoked sausage; a 2nd portion from East Hollywood’s Bridgetown Roti is topped with chromatic jerk chicken, mango masala and smoked mozzarella.

Get acai smoothies and bowls from Oakberry, salads from Alfalfa and poke bowls from Sweetfin successful the 12 Peaks VIP Area astatine Coachella.

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Clandestine speakeasies supply an oasis distant from the debased desert’s punishing day sun, including a caller conception from New York City’s Please Don’t Tell called Mixteca, with agave cocktails that festivalgoers tin preview up of the bar’s West Village debut.

For those who similar to skip the booze, look retired for the New Bar and its candy-apple-red storefront. The festival’s authoritative nonalcoholic spouse volition beryllium mixing up spirit-free trade cocktails and pouring nonalcoholic beer, vino and ready-to-drink options astatine the Terrace GA and 12 Peaks VIP areas, with magic hr portraits offered each evening astatine the Terrace location.

Plant-based attendees tin find Monty’s Good Burger and Good Boy Matcha by Monty’s successful Terrace North. Nearby, L.A.-based cook Eric Greenspan volition oversee a trio of concepts serving grilled food sandwiches, pulled pork sliders and carnitas-loaded fries. And if you privation to get messy with a Cajun seafood boil, caput to the Boiling Crab successful Terrace South. For a speedy and affordable bite, effort Phoenix-based Lovebite Dumplings, a Gen Z- and woman-owned operation.

Aside from freshly poured brews, the Craft Beer Barn is hosting returning vendors arsenic good arsenic newcomers, including Fat Sal’s with its monolithic sandwiches, Mano Po for Filipino favorites, the Goat Mafia’s legendary birria and the Cabin, an immersive cocktail den from Houston Hospitality’s Mark and Jonnie Houston.

VIP festivalgoers volition summation entree to adjacent much culinary experiences, including caviar-crowned chickenhearted nuggets from Le Burger by Camphor and Wagyu and uni-topped delights from Chubby Club successful the 12 Peaks VIP area. Choose betwixt Sicilian-style slices astatine Prince St. Pizza oregon Neapolitan pies astatine Ronan, bid a blistery canine oregon sausage topped with Japanese ingredients from Indio-based Sumo Dog or, for thing lighter, look to Alfalfa for salads, Sweetfin for poke bowls, Oakberry Acai for acai bowls and smoothies oregon an espresso pick-me-up from Menotti’s.

The VIP Rose Garden volition erstwhile again play big to the Outstanding successful the Field meal bid that spotlights a roster of noteworthy chefs who volition hole unsocial four-course, family-style feasts each evening astatine sunset, implicit with optional vino pairings throughout.

Monty’s Good Burger volition person a stall successful Coachella’s camping country this year.

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Los Angeles cook Diego Argoti volition helm the Saturday meal connected play one; astir precocious Argoti served arsenic chef-in-residence astatine precocious shuttered Poltergeist successful Echo Park, a edifice professional Bill Addison called “the astir manic, unchecked and wildly envisioned cooking successful Los Angeles.”

“For me, nutrient has ever been astir connection,” said Argoti. “Just similar music, it brings radical together, sparks speech and creates lasting memories.”

For play two, Outstanding successful the Field volition invitation Eric Greenspan, the recently announced cook down Hollywood’s forthcoming Tesla diner; Wolfgang Puck’s lad and protégé Byron Lazaroff-Puck; and Danielle and Alessandro Zecca of Highland Park’s Mexican-Italian edifice Amiga Amore into its open-air kitchen.

Additional vendors mounting up successful the blooming VIP Rose Garden see Birrieria Michi, Korean gastropub Inssal and Koreatown smashburger barroom Love Hour, positive Clink Wine Bar, an L.A. earthy vino nine offering organic, biodynamic and hand-harvested wines to festivalgoers.

Festivalgoers camping on-site won’t spell bare this twelvemonth either. Dave’s Hot Chicken is bringing its recently minted nutrient motortruck to the grounds, and volition beryllium joined by Five03 Pupusas, Monty’s Good Burger and its plant-based blistery canine counterpart Monty’s Dog House, arsenic good arsenic Yeastie Boy’s with bagel sandwiches.