Thank you to all who supported Worcester's Best Chef 2012!
This year's event was a great succes. A special thank you to all 2012 chefs and attendees who made the competition a wild success. And congratulations to the winners:
Overall Iron Chef Winner: Chris Rovezzi of Rovezzi's Ristorante.
Judge's Picks: Chris Rovezzi of Rovezzi's Ristorante Runners-up: Wilson Wang of BABA Sushi and Dan O'Sullivan of Sonoma.
The People's Choice Awards: Wilson Wang of BABA Sushi Runners-up: Al Maykel of EVO Dining and Bill Nemeroff of Ceres Bistro.
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About The Event
The purpose of WBC is to showcase the culinary talent that makes Central Massachusetts a "Dining Destination” and to perpetuate culinary arts education by raising much-needed college funding for culinary arts students at Worcester Technical High School.
Some of these otherwise very talented students have economic challenges and find it difficult to pay for the skyrocketing cost of college. As a result many don’t go on to Culinary College. The Worcester’s Best Chef competition strives to provide financial resources for these students by raising funds for their college scholarship program, under the direction of Kevin Layton. Also, WBC seeks to align students with professionals like Food Network-featured chef Alina Eisenhauer (see below) for the purpose of finding employment opportunities in the culinary arts.
When You Go...
Come and vote your palate in the People’s Choice competition, taste through selections from nine prestigious wineries & craft beer brewers, relax at the hands of message therapy professionals. Experience the thrill o f the live competition with nationally-acclaimed 
culinary celebrities, including judges Chef Barry E. Sexton from Food Network’s Dinner Impossible and Chef Alina Eisenhauer from Worcester's Sweet Pastry Shop and Dessert Bar and a featured Chef on Food Network's Chopped.
Buy your VIP ticket now and have a relaxing hour strolling through and interacting with chefs one-to-one, discovering their signature dishes and coveted culinary secrets from 4pm until 5pm before the event opens to the general public. Listen to the jazz trio "Players to Be Named Later" as you indulge in all the delicious samples. Get quality face-time with our co-emcees Jen and Steve from the WXLO Morning Show, experience VIP-only wines from a very exclusive California winery and join Sir Jeremy Bell in an interactive Rum & Revolution exhibition.
Meet Ambrose Gosling, (1787 – 1857) - first generation of the family that still own Goslings Rum out of Bermuda. With his manager John Till, they will explain why the Rum Punch was the official drink of the founding fathers, and explain the laborious way of making it in a song written by Ben Franklin and irreverently set to the 100th psalm!
Then let them bring you up to modern times and the simple way of making this historic drink by adding Goslings Black Seal Rum to a can of delicious Goslings ginger beer (made right here in Worcester by Polar Beverages!)
Ambrose Gosling and his partner will sing songs and play colonial music on fiddles, citterns and fife and drum.