In the past two years, we have chosen two remarkable New York-based companies, Kombucha Brooklyn, and Sweet Loren’s, and, with the help of our partners, supported them with PR services, retail placement, event opportunities, and kitchen equipment. Both brands have gone from diamonds-in-the-rough to true retail successes.

This year, we open up the competition to that other culinary hotbed, San Francisco (including the surrounding Bay Area). We will review submissions from both coasts, and the finalists will face-off before our judges, who will determine one grand prize winner, and anoint them The Next Big Small Brand.