2025 Summer Fancy Food Show Returns to The Big Apple

The Specialty Food Association’s Summer Fancy Food Show, the largest U.S. food show devoted exclusively to specialty foods and beverages, is set to return to New York City in late June.

The 2025 edition of the show will take place June 29-July 1 at the Javits Center, where thousands of food suppliers will showcase their new, on-trend products to industry attendees across every trade channel. According to SFA, some of this year’s trends will include girl dinner 2.0, oil-based hot sauces, flavored cheeses, “vivavious” vinegars and lavender-flavored everything.

The show will also feature a variety of educational seminars. Highlights of the Summer Fancy Food program include:

First We Feast CEO Chris Schonberger will host a conversation with individuals from HEATONIST and A-Sha Foods USA discussing how brands can expand through bold partnerships. During the session, Shonberger will explain how First We Feast’s Hot Ones show evolved into a media brand with diverse products ranging from hot sauces to snack mixes to ramen.

A panel with CPG veteran Jack Acree, Sprouts Farmers Market forager manager Brody Burk and Pod Foods chief merchandising officer Peter Gialantzis about how key distribution needs can be served without signing on with a large firm.

A session discussing how brands can tap into the $496 billion non-commercial foodservice segment through colleges and universities, healthcare and senior living facilities and corporate cafes.

Ricky Silver, CEO at Daily Harvest, and Brandon Partridge, founder and principal at 202 Consumer Ventures, will take to the main stage for “Frozen 2.0,” a conversation exploring the challenges and opportunities of bridging direct-to-consumer (DTC) and retail channels and how premium frozen offerings are changing consumer perceptions.