Join us for the next Worcester's Best Chef Competition at Mechanics Hall on Sunday, January 29, 2012!
Last year's event was a great succes. A special thank you to all 2011 Chefs and attendees who made the competition a wild success. And congratulations to the winners:
Overall Iron Chef Winner: Tim Quinn of Old Sturbridge Village’s Oliver Wight Tavern.
Judge's Picks: Wilson Wang of BABA Sushi (runners up: Jared Calderone of Feng Asian Bistro & Hibachi and Tim Quinn of Old Sturbridge Village’s Oliver Wight Tavern).
The People's Choice Awards: Mark Hawley of Flying Rhino (runners up: Wilson Wang of BABA Sushi and Brian Treitman of BT’s Smokehouse).
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About The Event
The Worcester’s Best Chef charitable culinary competition is the premier culinary event throughout Central New England and boasts the most exclusive, creative, & finest epicurean masterpieces to be found anywhere.
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.