Name: 7TH ANNUAL CREOLE FOOD FESTIVAL GRAND TASTING
Start: 2025-09-27T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-27T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

7TH ANNUAL CREOLE FOOD FESTIVAL GRAND TASTING

The Creole Food Festival showcases black and brown chefs from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, South America and, the South
About this Event

CREOLE| KREYOL| CRIOULO| KRIOL| Produced by Creole Food Festival

What is CREOLE CUISINE? CREOLE CUISINE is a style of cooking which blends French, Spanish, West & North African, Amerindian, Haitian and Portuguese. Did you miss the last Creole Food Festival in NY? Click here for a recap.

The 7th ANNUAL CREOLE FOOD FESTIVAL will continue the tradition of showcasing the best Creole chefs, cuisines and beverages from the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, South America and the South of the US but this time we are taking our talents to Brooklyn fr the 1st time.

Look to see and discover participating tourism boards, rising star chefs, beverage connoisseurs, bartenders providing signature NYCCFF drinks, sample dishes, cooking demos, and much more!

CONFIRMED CHEFS FOR 2025

1. Kelvin, Fernandez (Dominican) Forbes Best Chef in America 2016, 2017, 2018 & Food Nertwork Chopped Champion

2. Chef Thiago Silva (Brasil) Food Network Chopped Champion, Former Executive Chef at Catch

3. Adriana Urbina (Venezuela) 3x Food Network Chopped Champion

4. Airis Johnson (New Orleans) Food Network Chopped Champion

5. Todd Richards (Atlanta), James Beard semifinalist

6. Ben-Galy Leshawn Cisse (Ivory Coast) Executive Chef Tao Hospitality Group

7. Isha Gutierrez Sumner (Honduras) Founder of “Weiga Let’s Eat”

8. Monique Cadavona (Filipina) Founder of Kalihi

9. Janelle Pitterson (Panama) Founder of Homegrown

10. Chef Frances Roman (Puerto-Rico) Founder of Cocotazo

11. Chef Yala (Dominican Republic) La Cocina de Yala