The New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF) was held on October 13-16. Now in its fifteenth year, it’s a four-day festival of wine and spirit tastings, parties, dinners and culinary demonstrations to raise money for God’s We Deliver charity.

On Saturday afternoon, I attended the Ultimate Pizza Party. This event was held at Forino restaurant located at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.

The Pizza Party had several local pizza restaurants and Pizzaioli baking their signature versions of pizza. Cocktails were served on the rooftop level which had an outstanding view of lower Manhattan.

Some of the pizzerias at the event;

Forcella La Pizza di Napoli	Di Fara Pizza
Motorino	Rosie Pizza Bar
Sweetbriar	Speedy Romeo
Upland	Macoletta
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On Sunday afternoon, I attended Oysterbash. This event was held at the Biergarden at The Standard hotel in the Meatpacking district of lower Manhattan.

It was a walk-around event with a copious selection of raw, baked and fried oysters from local restaurants and seafood purveyors. Of course, wine, beer and cocktails were served to accompany all those oysters.

Restaurants and purveyors:

Cape May Salts	Barnegat Oyster Collective
Laughing Gull Oyster Farm	Chapin Sea Farms
Duxbury Oyster Farms	The Standard
Flex Mussels	El Fish Shack
Ama Raw Bar	Mollusca
Fish Cheeks	Lure Fish Bar