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2024 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2024
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
(see also: 2022  -  2021  -  2019  -  2018  -  2017  -  2016  -  2015)

October 4-6, 2024
The New York Coffee Festival
New York, New York
The Metropolitan Pavilion.  Taste your way through the vibrant New York coffee scene with hundreds of exciting coffees to sample. Boost your coffee knowledge in workshops, be a part of interactive demos and meet the top US artisans and baristas one-to-one. To top it all off, enjoy delicious street food, coffee cocktails, live music and coffee-inspired art

October 5, 2024  Little Falls Cheese Festival - Little Falls, New York
From 10 am to 5 pm. Festival goers will have an unusual opportunity to sample and buy artisanal cheeses from numerous local and regional producers—including several nationally award-winning cheesemakers. Admission and parking are FREE.  Entertainment will include live music and a short play presented by Little Falls Theater Company titled “Where’s the Cheese?” Handouts about Little Falls’ cheese history will be available and will include a self-guided walking tour.

October 4, 2024 - CiderFeast East Coast Tour - Brooklyn, New York
Industry City during Cider Week New York.  CiderFeast brings both up-and-coming and established cideries together for a series of premier events across the Northeast. Each stop on the tour showcases local cider producers for an outstanding blend of ciders at every location, toasting the renaissance of artisanal hard cider in the U.S. and beyond.  Portland, Maine, May 12; Haverhill, Massachusetts, June 20; Brooklyn, New York, Oct 4; Boston, Massachusetts, November 9.

October 5-6, 2024  42nd Annual Hilton Apple Fest - Hilton, New York
Celebrating the area's apple harvest with crafters, an auto show, entertainment and more!

October 5-6, 2024  Annual Great Cortland Pumpkinfest
Cortland, New York
Something for Everyone--Crafters, Children's Games, Entertainment, Food, 5K Race or Walk, Antique Tractors, Hay Rides, Tons of Pumpkins, Exhibits and Displays.
 

October 6, 2024  Warwick Applefest - Warwick, New York
Experience the extraordinary variety of Warwick's apples, culture, and entertainment--over 200 craft vendors, six stages of music & entertainment, farmers' market, apple pie baking contest. Proceeds benefit local non-profit organizations.  Attendance: 30,000.

October 6, 2024  14th Annual, Albany VegFest - Albany, New York
The area’s largest and longest running vegan festival in Upstate NY.   11am - 5pm.

October 11-13, 2024  13th Annual Lake George Oktoberfest
Lake George, New York
Join us for the Lake George Village Oktoberfest and Fall Festival on Columbus Day Weekend.  The heart of Lake George is transformed into a Bavarian-style street fair as we celebrate the arrival of Fall in the Adirondacks.

October 12, 2024  Newburgh Seafood Festival - Newburgh, New York
Peoples Park.

October 12, 2024  Saratoga International Flavorfeast
Saratoga Springs, New York
From 11am to 4pm.  A celebration of the worldly culinary styles that give this area its unique flair. It presents a feast for the senses and reflects the multicultural diversity of the Region.  Feast on flavors from a variety of countries including France, China, Japan, Italy, Mexico, and America, among others, making this food event one of its kind!

October 12-13, 2024  51st Annual LaFayette Apple Festival
LaFayette, New York
Bringing community, non-profit organizations, friends, artists and crafters together to promote apples and small town America.

October 13, 2024  Annual Troy Chowderfest - Troy, New York
Explore the walkable district sampling chowder, soup, and other delicious treats from a diverse group of restaurants and purveyors at the return of ChowderFest starting at 12 p.m. The event is free to attend and will feature $2 four-ounce samples for purchase at all participating locations.  There is no up-front cost or presale ticket required to enjoy ChowderFest, as all samples will be purchased a la carte, which means less waiting in line and more eating soup!  Attendance: 15,000.

October 14-18, 2024 - National School Lunch Week - Nationwide
School Nutrition Association.

October 17-19, 2024  43rd Annual New York Wine Experience
New York, New York
Only at the New York Wine Experience can you sit down and taste the world's best wines guided by the estates' owners and winemakers. All seminars are moderated by Wine Spectator senior editors.You'll enjoy outstanding vintages, rare wines from the producers' cellars and top-scoring wines from around the world. $2,995 per person.

October 17-20, 2024  New York City Wine & Food Festival
New York, New York
The Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival pays homage to one of the greatest dining cities in the world. It is the only festival in New York to bring together both legendary culinary icons from around the globe and America's most beloved television chefs.  The New York City Festival benefits the hunger-relief programs of Food Bank For New York City and No Kid Hungry. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the Festival go directly to these community-based organizations.

October 17 & 22-26, 2024  La Fête du Champagne - New York, New York
An epic party with the world’s finest bubbles, La Fête du Champagne is a week-long annual fall festival founded by Champagne expert & wine writer Peter Liem and world-renowned sommelier Daniel Johnnes. La Fête showcases Champagne’s top producers - from the most prestigious houses to boutique cult growers and everything in between.  The wines are accompanied by cuisine from some of the world’s greatest chefs.

October 19, 2024  New York Empanada Festival - Newburgh, New York
Peoples Park.

October 19-20, 2024  NYS Sheep & Wool Festival - Rhinebeck, New York
Always the third full weekend in October, the festival includes livestock shows & sales, photo contest, workshops, cooking demonstrations, children's activities, sheep dog trials, Make It With Wool Contest and more.

October 20, 2024  Beacon Sloop Club Pumpkin Festival
Beacon, New York
The Beacon Sloop Club holds or participates in several festivals and events each year to raise funds for the clubs activities and bring awareness to many environmental and social issues.

October 20, 2024  27th Annual International Pickle Festival
Rosendale, New York
Rosedale Recreation Center.  Pickled foods contest, pickle juice drinking contest, pickle toss, music, prizes, etc. 10am-5pm. Admission: $5 per person - Kids Free.

October 21, 2024  31st Annual CHC GALA - New York, New York
Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers.  Join us for our premier fundraising event, The Feast, an evening of gastrononical extravagance benefiting the programs and services of the Center for Hearing & Communication.

October 22, 2024  Bourbon Festival at Belmont - Elmont, New York
A bourbon tasting event and Kentucky Derby celebration, at Belmont Park Racetrack in Elmont, NY from 3:30pm-7:30pm.  This special event will feature more than thirty bourbons for tasting, a selection of craft beer, a live simulcast transmission of the Kentucky Derby, grandstand viewing of the track to enjoy live event day thoroughbred racing, and convenient betting windows.  Tickets for the festival are on sale now at the event website.

October 28-November 10, 2024  Hudson Valley Restaurant Week
Hudson Valley, New York
This fall’s lineup of nearly 200 participating restaurants is as exciting and diverse as ever. Restaurants offer prix fixe, three-course dinners and lunches. Many chefs focus on our local products on their prix fixe menus. Whether it’s trying a new place or returning to a true favorite — wherever you choose to dine. Restaurant Week means a good deal on a great meal!
 

2022 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2022
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 1, 2022  Syracuse Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival
Syracuse, New York
Food Truck Festivals of America.  New York State Fairgrounds.  Featuring 30+ local (and delicious) food trucks. Also enjoy some of the best regional and national craft beers.

October 22, 2022  Pumpkinfest - Bay Shore, New York
TJ Finley's Public House.
 

2021 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2021
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 2-3, 2021  Foodxfilm Festival - New York, New York
A 3Day Virtual Event: September 26, October 2 & 3, 2021.  The 1st Annual FoodxFilm Festival, created by Guild of Future Architects, in association with The Rockefeller Foundation and in support of the UN Food Systems Summit, Good Food For All and the World Food Forum, exists to shine a light on global stories related to food systems and the future of food. Showcasing a globally curated program of films, panels and events.  The 2021 FoodxFilm Festival aims to shine a spotlight on the food system narrative, utilizing film as a vehicle for story and poses the question: what does a food future reimagined mean for you? The festival exists to probe this question through film, panels & events.
 

2019 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2019
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 3, 2019 - Slice Out Hunger $1 Pizza Party - New York, New York
St. Anthony's Church, 155 Sullivan St. NYC.  Buy $1 tickets with exact change as you enter the event (cash only - bring exact change).   Exchange RED tickets for slices of pizza (limit 10), BLUE tickets for drinks, desserts, and raffle (no limit).  Limit 1 slice per person per pizzeria.  100% of funds raised at event will be split 50/50 between these lovely organizations: The Sylvia Center and City Harvest.

October 4-5, 2019 - Saratoga Wine and Food Festival
Saratoga Springs, New York
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is pleased to present the Annual Saratoga Wine & Food Festival and Concours D’Elegance.  One of the Northeast's fastest growing Wine & Food Festivals.  Over the course of the weekend, patrons will indulge in a variety of premier wines, spirits and exhibitors from across the country, while enjoying mouthwatering cuisine from some of the finest restaurants in the Capital Region and New York City. It’s time to get up close and personal with expert chefs, wine connoisseurs, and luxury automobile experts for a great cause! The goal of the Festival is to help raise funds for the Saratoga Performing Art’s Center Children’s Education Program.  (also: https://spac.org/promo/saratoga-wine-and-food/ )

October 6, 2019 - Lower East Side Pickle Day - New York, New York
The sweet and sour anticipation is finally over and at long last, Lower East Side Pickle Day will be returning to the ‘hood to cover Orchard Street in brine-soaked goodness. Featuring the artist formerly known as cucumber, there will be a full city block full of world-renowned picklers, a home pickling contest (with celebrity judges), live music, two additional city blocks full of the best in LES food and fashion vendors, games and a Halloween Costume Contest for kids and adults. Brine me up!

October 21, 2019 - New York Taste - New York, New York
Experience extraordinary, innovative cuisine from more than 40 of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants at New York Taste.  New York culinary editor Gillian Duffy orchestrates Gotham’s greatest feast for one night only - benefiting City Harvest.

October 24-27, 2019 - NYC Food Film Festival - New York, New York
The NYC Food Film Festival is a competitive film festival that presents awards in six categories. Through documentaries, features and short films, the Festival showcases the best, and the most memorable, of the world's favorite foods. Along with a heaping helping of mouth-watering films, guests are served food they are watching on the screen for a multi-sensory, full-bodied experience. The NYC Food Film Festival is proud to announce its partnership with the Food Bank For New York City
 

2018 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2018
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 1, 2018 - Long Island Potato Festival - Calverton, New York
THIS EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

October 4, 2018 - Spain's Great Match - New York, New York
Wines from Spain is pleased to host the 25th Annual Spain’s Great Match, an annual event organized by the Trade Commission of Spain in which American importers and distributors of wines present the latest vintages of the Spanish wines in their portfolio to wine industry professionals and consumers. For wine novices and connoisseurs alike, discover Spain’s wine, food, and design at Spain’s Great Match.  NY Trade & Press Noon; Public 6:30pm.

October 9, 2018 - Autumn Harvest Dinner - New York, New York
Annual Autumn Harvest Dinner to benefit Share Our Strength.
 

2017 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2017
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 7-9, 2017 - 6th Annual Oktoberfest
Eisenhower Park, Nassau County, New York

October 21, 2017 - Chestnut Festival at Goose Watch Winery
Romulus, New York
Each fall we harvest the chestnuts grown right at Goose Watch Winery and host one of the biggest celebrations of the year! Come enjoy Live Music while you sample a variety of foods made from our own chestnuts. We will also have mulled wine and wine slushies for you to purchase and enjoy while playing lawn games and overlooking the beautiful fall foliage of Cayuga Lake!

October 21, 2017 - Rochester Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival
Rochester, New York
Food Truck Festivals of America.  Featuring 25+ local (and delicious) food trucks. Also enjoy some of the best regional and national craft beers.
 

2016 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2016
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 1-2, 2016  Central NY Great Pumpkin Festival
Oswego, New York
Giant Pumpkins, Entertainment, Kids Rides, Craft Vendors, Food, Wine Tasting.

October 8, 2016  Apple Harvest Festival - Cairo, New York
Craft vendors, rides, book sale, great food and fresh produce, entertainment, puppets, petting zoo and vendor demonstrations--all in Cairo, "Crossroads of the Catskills".

October 20, 2016  Big Apple Crunch - Various Locations, New York
FarmOn! Foundation, in partnership with hundreds of local farms and New Yorkers will host the 4th annual BIG APPLE CRUNCH! Millions of participants around the state will bite into a locally grown apple creating a “crunch” to celebrate New York food and farming!
 

2015 NEW YORK - OCTOBER 2015
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
waiting for new dates

October 4, 2015  Pumpkin Patch for No Kid Hungry - Armonk, New York
Bring the entire family to this walk around tasting event celebrating the fall harvest and Armonk's local culinary scene. Everyone can participate in hands-on activities, like pumpkin carving and cookie decorating while enjoying the season's bounty from local chefs and artisans.

October 5, 2015  Autumn in Armonk at Restaurant North
Armonk, New York
The evening will include a cocktail reception, multi-course dinner, prepared by special guest chefs, with wine pairings and a live auction all in support of ending childhood hunger now.

October 9-11, 2015 - Seeds of Change Conference: Cultivating the Commons - Rhinebeck, New York
Over the past decade, presenters and participants at the Omega Center for Sustainable Living's conferences have added an important voice to the national conversation on our environmental, economic and social challenges.  By bringing together thought leaders and activists working on diverse and interconnected issues central to a more regenerative future, a compelling and hopeful vision is emerging toward a socially just, inclusive, and ecologically sustainable society.  Whether you are already working closely with these issues, or are interested in learning more, we invite you to be part of a growing community coming together to protect and care for the commons, including the pivotal right to save and share seeds, the necessity of stewarding our water resources, as well as transparency in labeling and access to healthy food.

October 10, 2015  Chili, Cheese & Cider Fest - Hudson, New York
Join us for a gastronomical celebration of the fall harvest season featuring the best the Hudson Valley has to offer: our highly competitive chili chefs, our award-winning artisanal cheesemakers, and our renowned cider makers. It will be a fun-filled, palate testing day, all set against the magnificent Hudson River and the scenic town of Hudson which will be bustling with local artists featured in the Columbia County Council on the Arts' annual ArtsWalk.

October 10, 2015  Adirondack Coast Wine, Cider & Beer Festival
Plattsburgh, New York
The Adirondack Coast Wine, Cider, and Food Festival is a fall harvest festival showcasing local wines & foods.

October 17, 2015  Eating Through Time: Food, Health and History
New York, New York
New York Academy of Medicine, 11am - 6pm.  Join us to celebrate the intersection between food, history, and public health at the Eating Through Time Festival. Using food as our common theme, we will bring together chefs, historians, writers, and public health experts to discuss the past, present, and future of food in society, culture, and policy.  This daylong event will include lectures, panels, demonstrations, workshops, book signings, performances, tastings, food trucks, a pop-up bookstore and marketplace, and historic cookbooks on display in the Academy Library.  Featuring: Chef Jacques Pépin on food memories, a theme of his upcoming final PBS show Jacques Pépin Heart and Soul and its companion cookbook.  - Cookbook author Bryant Terry in conversation on food, politics, and the power of culture.  - A Place at the Table documentary screening and Q&A with the producers.  - “Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives” with the Culinary Institute of America and Harvard School of Public Health.  - Talks by historians Ken Albala and Betty Fussell.  - Panels on food and its relationship to aging, the law, technology, the future, and community health.  - Workshops on topics from insect eating to aphrodisiacs.  - And more!  Cost: General Admission $65; VIP Ticket $80; Friends, NYAM Fellows & Members $50; Friends, NYAM Fellows and Members VIP $65; Students and Housestaff (ID Required) $30.

October 18, 2015  Meatopia - New York, New York
Meatopia, the world's most famous meat festival, is partnering with NYCWFF to once again present Meatopia hosted by Michael Symon. Don’t miss this annual festival, created and envisioned by the late carnivorous visionary and longtime friend of our Festival, Josh Ozersky.   Called “a meat-lover’s paradise” by New York Magazine, and a “bacchanal of pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck, turkey and quail” by The New York Times, Meatopia has a simple concept: The greatest meat chefs in the world cook every part of every animal over open fires. The "Whole Animal Court" will include whole hogs, lambs, and goats. Join celebrity chef and epic carnivore Michael Symon an unforgettable festival of live music, fine wines, cold beer, cocktails and the greatest concentration of sizzling, crusty, delicious meat ever seen.

October 24-25, 2015  Farm2Fork Festival - Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Rodale's Organic Life presents 3 unique food-focused experiences celebrating the harvest season and its best ingredients.  BITES OF BROOKLYN: Oct. 24, 11am-3pm.  Join us for a harvest festival in celebration of the season and its best ingredients, featuring tastes of Brooklyn’s best farm-to-table restaurants.  SLOW DOWN DINNER: Oct. 24, 7pm-10pm.  Organic Life partners with Slow Food NYC to present an exclusive dinner celebrating the founding father of Brooklyn farm-to-table dining, restaurateur Andrew Tarlow, with a menu inspired by his award-winning restaurants.  FARM FEAST BRUNCH: Watch the premiere of the groundbreaking documentary, “Food for Thought, Food for Life,” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Susan Rockefeller and special guest Dan Barber, led by Organic Life Editor-in-Chief James Oseland. Then sit down to a farm fresh brunch, inspired by Dan’s new book, “The Third Plate.”  See website to purchase tickets.