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NYC Wine & Food Festival closes tonight with Black-cuisine celebration "The Cookout" at Pier 17
The 19th Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival wraps up Sunday night with The Cookout at the Rooftop at Pier 17, celebrating Black cuisine with Whoopi Goldberg and a live Method Man set.
Why it matters
The 19th annual Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Invesco QQQ closes tonight (Oct. 18) with "The Cookout," a rooftop finale from 6:15 to 9 p.m. at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan, hosted by chef JJ Johnson and radio personality Angela Yee and centered on Black cuisine, music and culture.
Full report
The four-day festival ran Oct. 15–18 with more than 50 events and 300-plus chefs and culinary personalities, anchored at the Invesco QQQ Festival Campus in the Seaport, with the new Rooftop at Pier 17 added this year. Tonight's Cookout, presented by Mike's Amazing, features a special appearance by EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg and a one-hour live set from Grammy-winning rapper Method Man, with unlimited tastings from Black chefs and restaurants representing Harlem, Brooklyn and beyond.
The weekend's lineup included Rachael Ray, Bert Kreischer, mgk (Machine Gun Kelly), Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger), Kwame Onwuachi and DJ D-Nice; Sunday also offered mgk's 27 Club Coffee "Morning Buzz." Xinhua photos from Oct. 17 show crowds tasting wine and lining up for food across the festival.
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