STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—The borough’s own Egger’s Ice Cream parlor rose to the top Sunday at the Brooklyn SeltzerFest 2026 competition. The Westerleigh shop took home the Golden Siphon award—essentially the icing on the cake—at the Third National Egg Cream Invitational held at Industry City in Brooklyn.
More than 1,000 seltzer enthusiasts packed the sold-out festival for seven hours of tastings, comedy, klezmer music and egg cream showdowns. Some Staten Islanders told the Advance/SILive.com they couldn’t score a ticket, so they tuned into the livestream instead. One viewer called it “the equivalent of a sporting event.”
The second annual event, hosted by the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, expanded into two sessions celebrating New York’s carbonated beverage culture.
Egger’s Ice Cream parlor, competing for the third time, beat out nine other contestants from New York, New Jersey and Texas in the egg cream showdown sponsored by Fox’s U-Bet Chocolate Syrup. The field included Brooklyn’s Tom’s Restaurant, Greenberg’s Bagels, Gertie and Fishs Eddy; Manhattan’s Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse; New Jersey’s The Borscht Belt Deli and Hank Schwartz’s Delicatessen & Appetizing; and Austin’s Bubbs Seltzer.
How Egger’s took the crown
Egger’s owner Danielle Raleigh Carr bubbled over with joy upon hearing the shop had won. “I’ve made a lot of egg creams in the last few weeks practicing,” she said. “During the event we sold about 100 egg creams. For the judges, I made four—one for each of them.”…