Lower East Side Pickle Day Is Back For 20th Annual Festival

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Pickle Day returns to the Lower East Side on Orchard Street this Sunday for its 20th annual festival.

The festival began in 1999 in a parking lot on Broome Street with small merchants but has now expanded into a three-block pickle fair on Orchard Street.

"Pickle Day is a slice of the city’s history, reminiscent of when the streets of the Lower East Side were lined with pushcarts peddling their goods and wares for sale to a neighborhood of from immigrants from far and wide," organizers say.

Pickle Guys and Guss' Pickles will return, along with eateries from Essex Market and the soon-to-open Market Line, both a part of the Lower East Side's Essex Crossing development.

Pickle Day is slated for Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and hosted by the Lower East Side Partnership. Here's the Facebook event for the festival.

Free samples, games, live music, giveaways and the Pickle Day mascot will be on-site for the festival.

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Here's a list of the 2019 vendors, courtesy of Pickle Day's website:

• Atina Foods
• Backyard Brine
• The Pickle Guys
• Guss' Pickles
• Pickle Me Pete
• Messy Brine
• Adamah Farm
• MacDonald Farms
• Horman's Best Pickles
• Farm Ferments
• Anomaly Season
• City Saucery
• Epic Pickles
• Brooklyn Whatever
• Grillo's Pickles
• Brooklyn Brine
• Kilhaney's Pickles
• Brine Brothers
• Rick's Picks
• Roni-Sue's Chocolates
• Melt Bakery
• Ice & Vice
• Heros & Villains
• Askan
• Arancini Bros.
• REAL New York
• Macaron Parlour
• An Artistic Taste
• The Skinny
• New Territories
• Renegade Lemonade
• Char Sue
• Mama O's Premium Kimchi
• The Pickling Poet
• DACHA Live Cultured Veggies
• Tsismis NYC
• Adventure Cafe
• GrandLo Café
• Nom Wah Tea Parlor
• Ample Hills Creamery
• Que Chevere
• Essex Pearl
• Veselka
• Moon Man
• FarmSteady
• RUNA