New York 42 Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival 2026
Invesco QQQ Festival Campus, Pier 17, the Seaport, New York City · Organized by Food Network
- Dates
- Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026
- Format
- In person
- Where
- Invesco QQQ Festival Campus, Pier 17, the Seaport, New York City
- Organizer
- Food Network
For four days in October the Seaport becomes a campus with a rooftop, and the thing being taught is what more than three hundred chefs, winemakers and mixologists do for a living.
Dates and where it happens
15 to 18 October 2026. The festival's own ground is the Invesco QQQ Festival Campus in the Seaport, with the Pier 17 rooftop above it, and individual events run at restaurants and venues elsewhere in the city.
There is no festival pass
This is the part that catches people who have been to a music festival and expect a wristband. Each event is sold separately, at its own price, for its own room. What you are buying is a night, not the weekend, and two events on the same afternoon are two tickets.
Twenty-one and over
Anything pouring alcohol is 21+, and identification is checked at the door. That is most of the programme.
Programme
- Blue Moon Burger Bash
- Thursday 15 October, 7:15pm. Hosted by Rachael Ray with Bert Kreischer.
- Oyster Bash
- Saturday 17 October, 11:00am, hosted by Andrew Zimmern.
- New York After Dark
- Saturday 17 October, with Kwame Onwuachi and D-Nice.
- Grand Tasting
- Sunday 18 October from noon — the walk-around tasting the festival is built around.
- FoodieCon
- Sunday 18 October, 11:00am.
The Grand Tasting is the one to buy if you are buying one: it is the widest room, it runs for hours, and it is the only part of the weekend where the number three hundred means anything to a person standing in it. The themed nights are the opposite proposition — a smaller room, a named host, and a queue for the two stalls everyone came for. Which of those you want decides the ticket, and the festival will not decide it for you.
Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival 2026: questions
When is the New York City Wine & Food Festival 2026?
15 to 18 October 2026, based at the Invesco QQQ Festival Campus in the Seaport.
Is there one ticket for the whole festival?
No. Every event is ticketed separately, at its own price — there is no single pass covering the four days.
Can under-21s attend?
Events serving alcohol are 21 and over and identification is checked at the door.
Source: New York City Wine & Food Festival checked against the source
