In Montecrestese (VB) a great fixed event of the Ossola summer takes place at the end of August, the Potato Festival.

The Potato Festival is quality, good cuisine, good food, shows, smooth dancing concerts. During the event you can taste appetizers based on local cured meats, Potato gnocchi, Pasta and potatoes, Raclette, Potatoes and cod, Mashed potatoes with Ossola braised meat, Roast veal, Baked lamb, Grilled meat, Potato salad, Potato cake, Potato bread, Pansagra di Monte, Ossola wine. You can also find zero-mile Montecrestese potatoes.