Food & Drink Offerings at Rochester VegFest 2025 🍴🌱

What’s VegFest without amazing food and drink? This year’s festival will feature everything from refreshing beverages and frozen treats to hearty hot meals and artisanal packaged goods you can take home.


Drinks & Refreshments

  • B+ Healthy Fresh Food Market – Juices, detox shots, fresh fruit cups.
  • Frio’s Pops – Dairy-free frozen fruit pops (strawberry mango, blackberry ginger lemonade, pink lemonade, pickle + more).
  • Happy Earth Tea – Organic tea and herbal blends.
  • LemonLove Lemonade – Specialty lemonade, squeezed fresh on site.
  • Love Fern Lemonade – Fresh-squeezed lemonades, limeades, orange-aids, dirty sodas, and citrus fizz.
  • TiA Coffee – Freshly brewed coffee and roasted beans.

Hot Food Offerings

  • Grass Fed Vegan Butcher – Seitan sandwiches.
  • Hollycake House – Vegan breakfast sandwiches, cinnamon buns, cookies, scones, brownies, muffins.
  • Moonshadow Kitchen – Cheesesteaks, spiedies, birria tacos, garbage-style plates (all vegan + gluten free).
  • Neno’s Mexican – All-vegan tacos, burritos, and elote.
  • Philomina’s – Prepared vegan dishes (cold foods and beverages).
  • Polska Chata – Vegan hot food (menu TBD).
  • Sunshine Vegan Eats – Mac and cheese, vegan hoagies, jerk “cheesesteak,” yams, greens, and Nikki Special combo.
  • The Veg-E-Table – Rasta pasta and sea moss.

Prepared & Packaged Foods

  • Bravely By Jax – Cashew butter (flavors: vanilla bean, cacao, almond crunch, chocolate chip cookie).
  • F. Oliver’s – Olive oils and balsamic vinegars.
  • Flint’s Maple – Maple syrup, infused syrups, sauces, mustards, lemonades, mixes, and spices.
  • Junebar – Vegan, oil-free nutrition bars.
  • Long Weekend Bake Shop – Packaged vegan cookies and baked goods (with gluten-free options).
  • Lorenz Farms – Black garlic purée, smoked black garlic, dressings.
  • Once Again – Organic vegan nut butters and graham crackers.
  • Rochester Kettle Corn – Vegan kettle corn and drinks.
  • Spirit and Abundance – Plant-based cheeses, ferments, condiments.
  • The Fun Guys – Fresh mushrooms and mushroom burgers.
  • The Spice Project – Handcrafted spices, blends, and trail mixes.
  • The Vegan Pantry – Stickers, bags, snacks, nut butters.

Come Hungry, Leave Inspired

From fresh fruits and cold drinks to soul-warming comfort food and one-of-a-kind vegan products, VegFest 2025 has something for every appetite. Come explore, sample, and support the incredible plant-based businesses that make our community thrive!

See the full vendor lineup for 2025: https://rocvegfestny.org/exhibitors/

Panacheeza

Welcome Panacheeza to Rochester VegFest 2024! 🌿🧀 This innovative vendor offers a grated parmesan-style plant-based cheese that melts and tastes like the real thing. Made with just five simple ingredients, Panacheeza is perfect for adding a burst of flavor to your favorite vegan dishes.

Visit their booth on August 24th at Parcel 5 to try this delicious and nutritious parmesan alternative!

Parmesan, Reimagined: https://panacheeza.com/

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Spirit & Abundance

We’re excited to welcome Spirit and Abundance to Rochester VegFest 2024! 🌿🧀 Vegans and foodies of Rochester know and love these artisanal nut-based cheeses, ferments, and condiments.

Ali of Spirit and Abundance will give a fermentation demo at 11:00 am. Hit VegFest in the morning hours to learn the secrets to crafting authentic and flavorful plant-based cheeses.

Join us on August 24th at Parcel 5 to taste and shop Spirit and Abundance!

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Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen

We’re thrilled to announce Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen as a Silver Sponsor for Rochester VegFest 2024! 🎉 Dedicated to promoting plant-based nutrition, Sweet Pea offers delicious and healthy options for everyone.

In addition to attending VegFest as a returning vendor, Chef Ryan, CEO of Sweet Pea, will be giving a live cooking demonstration at 1:30 pm. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a plant-based culinary expert!

Join us on August 24th at Parcel 5 and stop by Sweet Pea’s booth to sample and purchase their locally beloved granola bars and jarred sauces. Thank you, Sweet Pea, for your generous support! 🌿🍪

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Good Food Collective

Good Food Collective is returning to VegFest!

The GFC offers flexible year-round access to fresh food from local farmers. Their deliveries and community pickups are a convenient way to source local, sustainably grown ingredients. They offer many weekly vegan shares such as veggie and fruit boxes, specialty mushrooms and veggie burgers, and also have an online marketplace of local add-ons like kombucha, kimchi and polenta.

They will be bringing apples to sample and selling T-shirts.