The New York City Wine and Food Festival, presented in association with Food Network, is a multi-day food and wine event held each October across venues in New York City. Co-founded by Lee Brian Schrager, who also founded the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, the event's official confirmed dates place it in mid-October.
Its scale and chef programming make it a core New York food row.
The festival's structure as a multi-venue citywide event rather than a single-location expo lets it pair celebrity chef demonstrations, tasting events, and dinners across many of the city's actual restaurants and event spaces, giving attendees a more varied experience than a typical convention-hall food show
Its Food Network branding connects the event directly to a roster of television chef personalities with wide public recognition, a crossover that helps draw larger crowds than a food festival built purely around industry insiders
Founder Lee Brian Schrager's parallel role founding the South Beach Wine and Food Festival gives the New York event an institutional lineage within a broader network of major American food festivals built on a similar celebrity-chef, benefit-oriented model
Pairing celebrity chef and Food Network talent appearances with hands-on tastings and dinners across a network of real restaurant and event venues has remained the festival's core format since its founding
The event's charitable dimension
tied to broader food-festival traditions established by founder Lee Brian Schrager's earlier South Beach festival
continues to connect ticket sales to hunger-relief and culinary education causes
14–18 October 2026
Subway/rideshare planning is needed.
Smart casual to elevated attire suits most tasting events and chef demonstrations; dinners and marquee evening events may call for more formal dress, so check specific event listings, since...
Use normal food-market caution, hydrate, and leave time between crowded stalls.
New York City
Entry may be free while tastings, meals, or special tables are paid locally.
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New York City Wine and Food Festival is listed for 14–18 October 2026. Always re-check the official or local source close to travel.
The festival is listed in New York, United States. The map coordinate is a planning reference, not a guarantee of a ticket gate or exact venue.
5 days is the listed festival span. Add time for arrival, local transport, queues, and any route changes during the event.
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New York, NY
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