The Leskovac Grill Festival is a yearly grilled-meat festival organised in Leskovac, Serbia at the beginning of September. During the event, the main boulevard is closed for traffic, night and day for five days, and all its way there are grill-stands constructed, to create many temporary restaurants. Many visitors from all over Serbia and many tourists from abroad come to Leskovac to enjoy a grill and entertainment. The organisers hold competitions, such as in making the World Biggest Burger - the Pljeskavica. The festival is the highlight of the season in Leskovac. To attract tourists from Serbia and abroad, the tourist organization organizes every year attractive concerts, fashion shows, carnivals, Miss Election during the period of Roštiljijada Festival. So far a lot has been done by raising quality, organizing a festival modeled on the Oktoberfest in Munich, such as a media presentations and good marketing which resulted in a very successful festival. According to the City Tourist Board, the number of visitors is one of the top touristic events in Serbia. In 2013, a record number of 600,000 people visited the festival. More than 200 barbecues were operational.In addition to guests from Serbia, a large number of visitors from abroad visiting festival as well mostly from Slovenia, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Romania and France.
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