Chilifest 2012!

The ultimate celebration of chili, beer and all things spicy is taking over New York City’s culinary epicenter—Chelsea Market on January 29, 2012. Each ticket gives you access to a 500-foot concourse of chili, served by dozens of NYC’s best restaurants and cutting edge chefs, all competing for the Golden Chili Mug 2012 title. Samuel Adams is matching 4 of their favorite chili-eating beers to accompany your adventurous mouths.

Dickson’s Farmstand Meats is supplying each chef with 100% dry-aged, locally-raised beef from Wrighteous Organics in Schoharie, NY, as the base for their chili, providing a level playing field for the competition. An exclusive panel of on-site celebrity judges vote on the 2012 Chili Champ of NYC. The 1st place team wins $2000 in kitchen gear from Breville, $500 cash and the illustrious 2012 Golden Chili Mug.

Ticket proceeds go to Food Systems Network NYC in support of their effort to build a just and vibrant, regional food and farm economy, which promotes human and environmental health, and prevents hunger.

ChiliFest 2012 is presented by Chelsea Market, Dickson’s Farmstand Meats, and The Cleaver Company.

Ticket Info
BUY TICKETS HERE

Chili Ticket: $45 - Entitles the bearer to all the chili and music you can handle.

Chili+Beer Ticket*: $55 - Entitles the bearer to all the chili, Samuel Adams beers, and music you can handle.

Chili+Beer+FSNYC membership*: $60-Entitlesthe bearer to unlimited beer, chili, and a one year discounted membership to Food Systems Network NYC

* Must be 21 or over to purchase.

All tickets must be purchased in advance. There will be no tickets at the door.

Competitors

•         Back Forty
•         Bark Hot Dogs
•         Co.
•         Fatty ’Cue
•         Friedman’s Lunch
•         Gramercy Tavern
•         Jimmy’s No. 43
•         Northern Spy Food Co.
•         Porchetta/Porsena
•         Roberta’s
•         Vinegar Hill House

Delicious corn bread provided by Amy’s Bread and tasty farmstead cheeses provided by Lucy’s Whey.

Judges
TBD

Live Music
The Dixons
“The Dixons, based in Brooklyn, New York, make fans of old-school country think they died and went to Honky Tonk Heaven.”

Chelsea Market
Chelsea Market is a one-stop NYC culinary food destination, a gourmet lover’s wholesale-retail wonder world, and an dining hotspot, all meshed into an entire city block of space in the heart of West Chelsea. Though Chelsea Market’s 800-footlong concourse opened in April of ’97, the million square feet the market occupies has a history that spans 90 years, beginning with the birth of the Oreo Cookie. It is currently home to the Food Network, NY1, Sterling Sound, Oxygen Media, and Major League Baseball Productions.

Visit the market for fresh sushi and a chocolate-almond croissant. Sip a cappuccino in a free Wi-Fi environment. Grab a beer and chicken pot pie at The Green Table. Then pick up your meat, produce, wine, cheese, bread, flowers, and everything else you might need for a perfect meal at home!