40+ Vendors Serving Sexy, Audacious Food Will Exhibit at the First Ever Food Porn Festival

How many hours a day would you say you spend thinking about food?

If your answer (or that of one of your foodie friend’s) is “a LOT,” mark your calendars for November 5 and 6, when Shwick Market’s FoodPornFest will bring more than 40 local culinary enterprises to a Johnson Avenue venue to feed the public weird, delicious treats.

Entertainment, including music and local comedy acts, is scheduled throughout the event, so it’ll be sort of like going on a date with, some really cute food (awww!).

Brooklyn’s first annual foodie fest will last from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday giving you ample time to sample all of the luscious offerings and hashtag the crap out of all of your sensuous Instagram photos, Bushwick!

FoodPornFest’s organizers invite the public to savor some really, really ridiculously good-looking eats, which run the gamut “from BBQ to burgers [and] fried mac & cheese to fried ice cream.”

Like a lot of us (probably all of us), event co-creator Christoper Carew is drawn to “drool-worthy” images of food. He admits that some of the vendors slated for FoodPornFest were stumbled upon while sifting through Instagram.

Hosting a food centered event, however, was always on the table for Shwick: “We [Shwick] love food!”, Carew delightedly proclaims.

Carew was surprised to learn that the fest’s buzzworthy name wasn’t already in use anywhere nearby. “I looked, and only found one FoodPornFest, but it was in like Australia, or somewhere on the other side of the planet, so we said ‘Let’s do it!’”

The organizers are already aiming for another FoodPornFest come Spring, and Carew is hoping to make FoodPornFest a regularly bi-annual celebration. “There’s nothing that I’m not looking forward to eating [at FoodPornFest],” he says.

Take a look through the lineup below!

Seven 1 Cake: Check out Seven 1’s decadent, seasonal cake push pops on Instagram!

The Canton Canteen

Bruce Cost Ginger Ale: A delicious biz that operates out of a building just a few blocks down Johnson Avenue!

Tommy Joe

BakerLee: A New York City bakery that specializes in decadent vegan and gluten-free treats.

I Like Food: A pop up kitchen which has recently put on some delightful, tasty events at The Footlight!

Chocolate Calling: Fair trade, organic vegan chocolate is at the heart of this small company’s business plan.

Sam’s Ice Cream: Three words for this one: Fried. Ice. Cream. Need we say more?

BuckWHAT Foods: Au courant superfood buckwheat seed is where the snacks on offer here get their crunch.

The Fat Cardinal Bakery: A Far Rockaway bakery with rosette creations that are off the charts!

Roll Play: A fast casual Vietnamese savory moveable feast.

Rubyzaar Baked: Have you ever had a frozen cheesecake pop? No? Time to remedy that situation.

A Cake Baked In Brooklyn: Amazing sculpted cakes come out of this bakery’s home base in the food biz stronghold at Bed-Stuy’s Pfizer Building.

Brooklyn Cookie Company: There’s a good chance this table will feature some of the company’s signature pillowy meringues.

Jon Good Chocolates: Science fiction inspires this company. The Millenium Falcon and TIE Fighters from the Star Wars saga make appearances among Jon Good’s molded chocolates, as do Dr. Who’s cyborg nemeses, the Daleks.

Alegria Fine Foods: “Alegria” translates to “happiness,” which is what this granola company strives to create with their rich, thoughtfully formulated offerings.

House of Mac: Get ready to have your socks blown off by waffle mac and cheese.

Zesty Z: Here is a purveyor of some next-level mediterranean Za’atar spread!

Munch Hours

Sweetshot Minis: Cupcakes drizzled with caramel and other confections are the specialty of this family-owned bakery!

The Cheese Guy: He has cheese and, unlike many cheesemongers, will travel!

Twistercakes: “Kurtos Kalacs” are a traditional Transylvanian hand cake—and they are delicious!

Too Cool Chix: These small batch ice cream sandwiches are a cut above the mass-produced ice cream sammies of your childhood, and are more like tiny slices of ice cream cake.

Brooklyn Whatever: Pickeled everything.

Yumpling: Incredible, savory Taiwanese dishes.

Heros & Villains: Sandwiches get weird at this table (for example, try the black rice-rolled, soft-cooked egg).

Nodoka: Organic, Japanese green teas.

Standard Wormwood Distillery: Heady, Brooklyn-distilled booze.

Island Pops: Orange bitters and lemon nutmeg cookie ice cream are among this company’s heavy hitting offerings.

Stagg Jams: You need to try banana jam at least once in your life.

Annie Mae’s Bakery & Moore: Classic, homestyle pastries.

Tom’s Lemon Coffee: If you’ve ever “arnold palmered” your morning cup of joe, you know how surprisingly good lemon and coffee taste together. This beverage sparkles, to boot!

Mouz Meats: Meatloaf sliders featuring flavors from around the world!

Kimchi Kooks: Traditional Korean Kimchi, plus variations with kale and beets!

Picky Eaters: Trinidadian Style Barbecued Lamb!

EssieSpice: West African sauces, condiments and spice blends.

Arepalicious: Colombian style arepas, plus savory “arepacones” filled with things like guacamole, pork and plaintain.

Baking Bad NY: A business committed to perfecting the art of the rum cake.

Gelato House NYC

CLOVEsz: Sorrel Juice, served in a cute lightbulb-shaped bottle!

Kyle’s Kimchi: A slaw-like kimchi perfect for topping American comfort food.

We hope you weren’t hungry when you started reading this. Bon appetit, Bushwick!

Featured image courtesy of Stagg Jams Instagram