Ticket Info
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.
* Must be 21 or over to purchase.
All tickets must be purchased in advance. There will be no tickets at the door.
Competitors
- Jimmy’s No. 43
- La Palapa
2012 Golden Chili Mug Winner - Mast Brothers Chocolate
- Mile End
- Morris Grilled Cheese
- Northern Spy Food Co. 2011 Golden Chili Mug Winner
- Porchetta/Porsena
- Roberta’s
- Tacombi
- Trestle on Tenth
- Vinegar Hill House
Delicious corn bread provided by Amy’s Bread
Tasty farmstead cheeses provided by Lucy’s Whey
Judges
- Mitchell Davis
- Mitchell Davis is the executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation, a cookbook author, a food journalist, and a scholar with a Ph.D. in Food Studies from NYU’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. His academic work focuses on restaurants, media and taste, particularly how restaurant reviews influence our personal and collective tastes. At the Beard Foundation, Davis has spearheaded “Sustainability on the Table,” a national dialogue on sustainability and public health in the foodservice industry. In addition to his work at the Foundation, Davis frequently writes about and reviews restaurants. He holds a chair on the academy of the London-based World’s 50 Best Restaurants program. He has written four cookbooks, most recently, Kitchen Sense (Clarkson Potter), and he is a regular contributor to the Art of Eating and Gastronomica. His T.V. appearances include Food Network’s Food(ography), Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Best in Smoke, on which he is a regular judge. Davis is host of Taste Matters, a weekly radio show (Wednesdays at 11 a.m.) on The Heritate Radio Network.
- Michael Symon, Chef/Owner of Lola, Lolita, Roast and B Spot
- Chef Michael Symon cooks with soul, creating bold, deeply satisfying dishes at his six restaurants in America’s heartland: Lola, Lolita, Roast and B Spot. The Cleveland native shares his exuberant, approachable cooking style and infectious laugh with television viewers as an Iron Chef on the Food Network. Michael has received honors including The James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Great Lakes in 2009 and Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine in 1998. In 2010, Michael appeared on four Food Network/Cooking Channel shows, hosting Food Feuds and Cook Like an Iron Chef, judging season three of The Next Iron Chef and competing on Iron Chef America. His Midwestern restaurants continue to earn critical acclaim, and Lola is now the cornerstone of Cleveland’s dining scene. His first cookbook, Michael Symon’s Live to Cook – Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen, was published in 2009. In September 2011, Michael joined the cast of The Chew on ABC as one of the show’s six hosts and is enjoying every minute of it.
- Martin Tessarzik, The Farmer, Wrighteous Organics in Schoharie NY
- The Man behind much of Dickson’s Farmstand’s beef is Martin Tessarzik. Beef began as an afterthought for Martin — Wrighteous Organics’ primary business has historically been raising organic small grains and other organic crops on the farm that his parents bought back in 1962. He originally brought in a few steer to eat the broken hay bales and leftover grains that couldn’t be sold. But as it turns out, Martin was a natural at raising high quality beef and quickly fell in love with, and expanded, the operation. Currently Martin supplies 3/4 of the beef for Dickson’s Farmstand Meats.
Samuel Adams Beer
Attendees with the Chili+Beer Passport (and over 21) are entitled to enjoy unlimited beer provided by Samuel Adams. The suds flow freely like a rolling river and the live music jams all day.
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 a 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!
75 Ninth Avenue (between 15th & 16th Streets)
New York, New York 10011 | Map
Food Systems Network NYC
Ticket proceeds from NYChiliFest 2012 will go to Food Systems Network NYC in support of their effort to build a vibrant, local farm and food economy for all.
Food Systems Network NYC Mission:
FSNYC is a membership organization working toward universal access to nourishing, affordable food. Through collaboration, education, and advocacy, FSNYC is helping to establish a just and vibrant regional food and farm economy that promotes human and environmental health and prevents hunger.
FSNYC embraces the following values:
Access to nourishing food is a basic human right integral to healthy individuals and healthy communities. Every stakeholder has a voice in food systems issues—from agricultural producers and food processors to distributors, emergency food providers, marketers, shoppers, and eaters.
Collaboration among stakeholders is a critical tool for making effective change in food systems policy and programs. Diversity of food sources, distribution channels, and access opportunities is fundamental to healthy food systems.
Breville USA
All chef/restaurant competitors will be receiving a Control Grip Immersion Blender and will be competing for the 1st place prize: a full set of Breville kitchen gear (valued at $2,000). The runner-up will receive a Scraper Mixer Pro stand mixer.
Press
Last year’s first-ever NYChiliFest appeared in many print and online sources. Check out the links below to read more.
