Smorgasburg & JAPAN Fes
New York’s outdoor food season is back — Smorgasburg returns and JAPAN Fes is back on city plazas with Japanese street food, snacks and performances as vendors relaunch for spring (newsday.com). Ubeland — the purple-ube Filipino pop-up — is also opening the outdoor festival slate with instagrammable dishes and inventive takes on traditional desserts (pix11.com).
Smorgasburg reopens for its 16th season the weekend of April 4–5, 2026, with organizers listing roughly 74 vendors on the roster and about 22 new stalls joining this year. (bkmag.com) The season calendar published by Prospect Park lists Smorgasburg running through October 25, 2026, with the Williamsburg market staged at Marsha P. Johnson State Park and the Prospect Park market at Breeze Hill. (prospectpark.org) Smorgasburg’s official site confirms the April 2026 relaunch, notes vendor applications are open for the season, and points to three New York locations including a Manhattan site at the World Trade Center that typically operates on Fridays. (smorgasburg.com) JAPAN Fes launches in New York beginning March 28, 2026, and organizers say the program will include more than 30 street-food events across the city as part of a global slate that exceeds 80 events; the festival’s founder is Dragon Yamamoto and the organization cites roughly 500,000 annual attendees and 1,500 participating vendors. (timeout.com) The JAPAN Fes NYC calendar lists specific neighborhood dates early in the run — for example, East Village on March 28, Midtown West on March 29, and rotating stops in Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Astoria through spring and summer. (world-today-journal.com) UBELAND, produced by Philippines Fest, is scheduled as an early-season pop-up on April 4, 2026 on Broadway between East 12th and 13th Streets and will feature 20+ ube-focused vendors serving both savory and sweet purple-yam creations. (averagesocialite.com)
