FIELD NOTE · ABASTUR · MEXICO CITY
We spent 26–28 August at ABASTUR 2026, Mexico’s hospitality and foodservice exhibition at Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City — three days of catching up with partners we already knew and meeting the ones we did not. This note covers what we brought, what the floor looked like, and where to find us in Mexico before September is out.
The event record
Why ABASTUR
ABASTUR is the annual meeting point for Mexico’s hotels, restaurants, cafeterias and catering trade — the HORECA channel that decides what goes on menus and counters across the country. For a pistachio ingredient maker it is the right room: the floor is lined with exactly the counters our products work on — pastry displays, pan dulce cases, gelato cabinets, café menus and chocolate programs.
What We Brought
The pistachio application range for foodservice menus: pistachio sauce and pastes for pastry, gelato and dessert programs, and nut ingredients and inclusions for bakery and beverage lines.
Recommended Nutoast products
What the Floor Looked Like
Walk the aisles and the applications write themselves: laminated viennoiserie, pan dulce, filled pastries, muffins and display-case desserts — the formats our fillings, toppings and inclusions slot into. The floor made the case better than a spec sheet could.
And the part that does not photograph as well: the meetings. Three days of conversations with distributors, manufacturers and foodservice operators — the kind you follow up in person. Which is exactly what happens next.
Back in Mexico City, 20–24 September
Our Head of Global Markets returns to Mexico 20–24 September for face-to-face client visits. This round is not a public program — it is scheduled meetings, and the pistachio product range comes along. If you are in Mexico and want to talk applications, sourcing or specifications in person, book a slot now — places are limited and go on a first-come basis.
In Mexico this month, or developing a pistachio product?
Where You Can Meet Us Next
The schedule below covers the exhibitions currently planned through 2027.
- 16–18 SEP2026FI ASIA INDONESIA 2026Food Ingredients Asia · Jakarta
- 16–18 SEP2026ICE CREAM CHINA 2026The 28th China Ice Cream & Frozen Food Industry Expo · Tianjin
- 13–15 OCT2026HOTELEX Shenzhen 2026Shenzhen International Hospitality & Catering Expo · Shenzhen
- 22–24 OCT2026Bakery China Autumn 2026The 11th China International Bakery Autumn Exhibition · Wuhan
- 02–05 MAR2027MOBAC SHOW 2027The 30th Machinery, Materials, Marketing of Bakery and Confectionery Show · Chiba
- 15–19 MAR2027Gulfood 2027Dubai World Trade Centre & Dubai Exhibition Centre
- 30 MAR–02 APR2027HOTELEX Shanghai 2027The 35th Shanghai International Hospitality & Catering Expo · Shanghai
- 24–28 OCT2027iba 2027The World’s Leading Trade Fair for the Baking and Confectionery Industry · Munich
All dates are planned and subject to confirmation, and further international food exhibitions will be announced. If you would like to arrange a meeting at any of them — or discuss an application before then — we are glad to hear from you.
Sources: ABASTUR organiser material for event dates and venue; Nutoast field notes and photographs from the show floor, 26–28 August 2026.