NYC Wine & Food Festival: SWEET (hosted by Duff Goldman) brings out best pastry chefs in New York

October 11, 7:46 PMNY Celebrity Restaurant Scene ExaminerCharles Thorp

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Spigolo's Pastry Team finishes their dessert for SWEET at La Venue

Last night's SWEET event at La Venue for the New York City Wine & Food Festival was a carnival of sugary sweets. Hosted by Food Network’s industrial-strength cake maker Duff Goldman (Ace Of Cakes) and featuring the creations of dozens of our favorite pastry chefs.

Before guests were even able to get in the door staffers were offering trays of chocolates from the event's presenter Godiva.

Inside the venue were tasting tables for no less than 32 fantastic New York City restaurants and their respective pastry chefs. To help all that chocolate go down servers were walking around with an endless flow of Champagne, Kahlua and cocktails featuring Absolut Vodka.

To top off the party atmosphere and help keep the people moving Brooklyn DJs Finger on the Pulse were there supplying the tunes. The brother duo, Terry D and DJ, were getting compliments all night including a thumbs-up from the big boss Lee Schrager (NYC Wine & Food Festival founder).

Winner of the Burger Bash judge's pick Chef Spike Mendelsohn was floating around enjoying the dessert and drinks. Also seen eating their way around the La Venue was Kelly Rutherford, Chef Guy Fieri and the host Duff Goldman.  Duff professed his love for sweets with sound bites "a meal is the first course and then dessert. Everything in between is whatever."

Highlights of the tasting area definitely included the newly 3 Michelin Star Daniel (Pastry Chef Dominique Ansel) with a light and refreshing apple pie dish. Mario Batali's Del Posto (Pastry Chef Brooks Headley) also had a fantastic idea with a delicious and portable Chocolate & Olive Oil Bastoncino. Hotel Griffou was passing out Pastry Chef Anne Thornton's top notch creamy Banana Pudding Pie in a miniature tin foil bowl.

Here's the complete list of participating restaurants and vendors at this year's SWEET:

1. Adour (Site): Pastry Chef Sandro Micheli 
2. BabyCakes NYC (Site): Pastry Chef Erin McKenna 
3. baked (Site): Pastry Chefs Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito
4. Billy's Bakery (Site): - - 
5. China Grill Management Catering (Site): Pastry Chef Alfredo Guaman
6. Daniel (Site): Pastry Chef Dominique Ansel
7. Del Posto (Site): Pastry Chef Brooks Headley
8. eater.com Contest Winner (Site): Pastry Chef Jessica Mogardo
9. Eighty One (Site): Pastry Chef John Miele
10. Fishtail by David Burke (Site): Pastry Chef Jennifer Domanski
11. Godiva (Site): Pastry Chef David Funaro
12. Gotham Bar & Grill (Site): Pastry Chef Deborah Racicot
13. Hotel Griffou: Pastry Chef Anne Thornton
14. Jean Georges (Site): Pastry Chef Johnny Iuzzini
15. Levain Bakery (Site): Pastry Chefs Pamela Weekes & Connie McDonald
16. Locanda Verde (Site): Pastry Chef Karen DeMasco
17. MAD MAC (Site): Pastry Chefs Florian Bellanger and Ludovic Augendre
18. more (Site): Pastry Chef Patty Rothman
19. Park Avenue Autumn (Site): Pastry Chef Richard Leach
20. Ron Ben-Israel Cakes (Site): Pastry Chef Ron Ben-Israel
21. Rose's Heavenly Cakes (Site): Pastry Chefs Rose Levy Beranbaum & Jean-Francois Bonnet
22. Rouge Tomate (Site): Pastry Chef James Distefano
23. Spigolo: Pastry Chef Heather Fratangelo & Jen Kim
24. Sweetiepie (Site): Pastry Chef Humberto Guallpa
25. Telepan (Site): Pastry Chef Bill Telepan & Larissa Raphael
26. The North Fork Table & Inn (Site): Pastry Chef Claudia Fleming
27. The Oak Room (Site): Pastry Chef Matthew O'Haver
28. The Sea Grill (Site): Pastry Chef Michael Gabriel
29. The Stanton Social (Site): Pastry Chef Jaime Sudberg
30. Tisserie (Site): Pastry Chef Gustavo Agudelo
31. ‘wichcraft (Site): Pastry Chef Sisha Ortúzar
32. Duncan Hines (Site): - -

Check back here for more articles on the NYC Wine & Food Festival experience and what fantastic food events to look for in the coming months!

Like all the events at the fest, proceeds from SWEET benefited some great charities, the Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength.

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