Overview The Food Network New York City Wine and Food Festival is five October days of tastings, dinners, demos and parties run out of a festival campus in Lower Manhattan's Seaport, with $15 million in net proceeds raised by 2025. It programs more than 50 events and over 300 chefs, winemakers, mixologists and TV cooks. Lee Brian Schrager founded and directs it, and a21, the producer behind the South Beach Wine and Food Festival and Pebble Beach Food and Wine, runs it. The 18th edition, in 2025, moved the festival to the Seaport, where the Invesco QQQ Festival Campus holds the signature events. On site The program runs from big walk-around nights to 30-plus small dinners. The Grand Tasting takes day and night sessions plus an After Dark party, with culinary demos on stage; around it sit a rooftop series, cocktail parties, brunches, master classes and FoodieCon. The 2025 lineup put A Taste of the Tin Building, an Asian Night Market, a Tacos and Tequila party and the Burger Bash on the campus, with dinners reaching into the Tin Building, Delmonico's and the old Fulton Fish Market site. Hudson Horns and DJ Cassidy played. Talent and Influencers The 2025 festival carried Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Jose Andres, Martha Stewart, Marcus Samuelsson, Daniel Boulud, Eric Ripert, Alain Ducasse, Padma Lakshmi, Kwame Onwuachi, Alex Guarnaschelli and Andrew Zimmern, with Sofia and Manolo Vergara, Brie Larson, Tony Shalhoub and Ja Rule among the guests from outside food. Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and Rachael Ray hosted the Burger Bash, where Skinny Louie took the judges' award and El Sazon RD the people's choice. Track record The 2025 edition drew more than 35,000 guests over five days, its first year in the Seaport. That year's net proceeds went to the James Beard Foundation and Event Zero, a nonprofit that cuts waste and emissions at a21's events. Brand presence Food Network holds the title and Invesco QQQ presents the festival and names the Seaport campus. Individual events carry their own presenting partners: in 2025 Blue Moon's name was on the Burger Bash, Modelo's on Catch of the Day, Peroni's on Sunday Supper and Patron's on Tacos and Tequila, and in 2026 Bank of America cardholders got a ticket presale. a21 builds partner activations with its own fabrication and marketing team.