New York City Grocery Run with Gourmet Garage - February 2026

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 for Village Super Market
• Patrick Sheils, Vice President of Merchandising at Fairway Markets
• Fedele Stella, Center Store Merchant for Fairway Market and Gourmet Garage
• Marc Joaquin, Dairy and Frozen Merchandising Manager for Village Super Market
• Amanda Fischer, Marketing, Business Development and Outreach Manager at Village Super Market
• Harshal Rana - Operations Manager @ Nature's Way Health Foods

Here are the brands sampling at this event:

Coming soon!

Want to sample at this event? Apply here!

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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