New York City Grocery Run with Gourmet Garage - April 2026 [Rescheduled]

Grocery Run is a national event series connecting relevant retailers to emerging brands. Join us to meet buyers, sample, and network!

NYC: join us for Grocery Run with Gourmet Garage!

We’ll have brand samplings (apply below, tables are granted by application only), networking with your favorite CPG community, and VIP guests from Gourmet Garage and more.

Join us for buyer introductions and networking while enjoying samples and refreshments. Even if you aren’t sampling, bring product with you to show buyers! Sample packets/trial sizes and backpack sampling highly encouraged.

We’ll have food and refreshments available!

Featured Guests

• Glenn Cunningham - Director of Center Store @ Village Super Market
• Perry Blatt - Director @ Village Super Market
• Patrick Sheils - Vice President of Merchandising @ Fairway Markets
• Fedele Stella - Center Store Merchant @ Fairway Market and Gourmet Garage
• Marc Joaquin - Dairy and Frozen Merchandising Manager @ Village Super Market
• Amanda Fischer - Marketing, Business Development and Outreach Manager @ Village Super Market
• Peter Spinner - Director Of Strategic Initiatives @ Village Supermarket
• Harshal Rana - Operations Manager @ Nature's Way Health Foods
• Ido Bok - Founder @ Localee Wholesale

Here are the brands sampling at this event:

• Bagelverse is bringing pizzabagels back, better than ever. What's more New York than pizza and bagels?
• Casa Virgin brings Italy's favorite condiments from family groves to American tables.
• Cotto is a line of high-protein dips made using whipped cottage cheese to reimagine classic flavors as craveable, better-for-you fridge staples.
• Croots are snack-worthy sourdough croutons.
• Figa Foods brings Brazilian superfoods to the modern American palate with Cupuaçu (coo-pooh-ah-soo) based bars. Made with just three ingredients, sweetened with dates, and sourced from regenerative farms, chocolate’s Brazilian cousin is here.
• Keya's Snacks are built on flavor, backed by culture! Leveraging Indian heritage on beloved American Snacks!
• Nadas is bringing the best empanadas that everyone can eat the frozen, to the frozen section.
• Sourmilk is an organic plain greek yogurt specifically designed for your gut!
• SVRY Nutrition makes savory protein bars with category-leading nutrition and unique culinary flavors.
• Sweetkiwi makes a delicious Frozen Whipped Greek Yogurt that delivers functional nutrition while satisfying a sweet tooth.
• SWRL is a makgeolli seltzer brand, reimagining traditional Korean alcohol made from fermented rice through the hard seltzer category.
• Unicorn Bites celebrates the naturally magical with delicious, soft baked and 100% date sweetened that are also free from the top allergens.

Want to sample at this event? Apply here! [Now closed]

Space is limited! You must apply to sample. A ticket to the event does NOT grant you a sampling table.

Sponsors:

Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Email partnerships@startupcpg.com

About Gourmet Garage

Founded in 1981 as the importer and distributor Flying Foods International, Gourmet Garage supplied the best restaurants and chefs in New York with their most essential ingredients. Years later they opened their first retail location, an ex-garage on Wooster Street in SoHo (hence the name). They opened just for chefs and restaurant buyers in the morning and everyone else in the afternoon, making sure all New Yorkers had access to the same high-quality, ingredients.

Gourmet Garage has since expanded to three convenient locations in NYC's trendiest neighborhoods (West Village, Tribeca, and Lincoln Center). Now instead of supplying chefs, they offer our neighbors the freshest prepared food options in addition to first to market snacks, sips and center store items.

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