Upcoming Chicago eating contests
| 3.5 pound steak | Char House Sirloin | Al's Char House | La Grange, IL | |
| 1.5 lb. burger | The Dawg House Challenge | The Dawg House Grill | Park Ridge, IL | includes 2 lb. fries, also mantain a burger pattie record |
| 5 lb. meat | The Bacon Bomb | Paddy Long's | Chicago, IL | 5 pounds of meat encased in a bacon weave, includes large side of fries |
Takeru Kobayashi will compete against a team of five Chicago Now bloggers in an Italian beef eating contest in Chicago on Friday.
The South Holland, IL Wingstop has a gallery of today's wing eating contest won by Eric Dahl, who received two round trip airline tickets to anywhere in the USA.
Registration for the eating contest at Ribfest in Chicago June 8 will open today at 11 am eastern on IFOCE.com
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at minor league baseball games in Schaumburg, IL on May 26 and Gary, Indiana on May 27.
The Wingstop in South Holland, IL (south Chicago area) will hold a wing eating contest on April 14 awarding a round trip airfare to anywhere in the United States. The Baltimore Wingstop will hold an eating contest on Saturday as part of its grand opening celebration.
A Lucky Charms eating contest at the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago will award a 32 inch TV (1st) and an electric guitar (2nd) tomorrow.
Qdoba in Chicago on Diversey & Sheffield will hold a burrito eating contest on Thursday. The overall winner will receive four Blackhawks tickets.
Eric "Silo" Dahl announces he will be competing in the paczki eating contest for two person teams at Bennison's in Evanston, IL today. Trina will apparently be his teammate. update Eric reports that his team ate 24 paczkis (he ate 20 of them); Jake "Great Lakes" Larry's team won the contest with a total of 26 paczkis.
Bennison's in Evanston IL will hold a paczki eating contest on Februray 18 for two person teams awarding $300 to the winner.
A Chicagoist blog entry about public relations executive Dan Edelman mentions a hot dog eating contest covered by Life Magazine. The focus of the 1957 article (available in the Google Books archive) was reversals by children. One letter to Life about the contest demanded that the mayor of the town where the contest be impeached and the American Medical Association censure the town's doctors for allowing the contest to happen.
ConciergePreferred has a list of Chicago eating challenges. Bartolini's will award $250 if a diner can beat the record of 48 minutes for its 10 pound meatball sandwich.
Pat Bertoletti edges Tim Brown to win Battle of the Bhut
update Sept 7 NBCChicago has an article
Results from the MLE facebook from today’s Battle of the Bhut [Jolokia] wing eating contest at Jake Melnick’s in Chicago: Part 1 | Part 2
1 Pat Bertoletti 52 spicy wings in 5 minutes
2 Tim “Gravy” Brown 51
3 Erik Denmark 44, 2010 winner
4 Eric “Badlands” Booker 30
5 Andrew “the Bear” Kogutkiewicz 28
6 Paul Zwiercan 26,
7 Mike Whyte 19
8 Sean Mulcahey 18
9 Carolyn Mielke 14
10 Geoff Connus 12
XA.Social has an interview with Pat Bertoletti about competing in the Battle of the Bhut in Chicago on Sunday.
McFadden's in Chicago will hold a wing eating contest tomorrow awarding $200 to the winner.
Glutton Force Five, the food truck owned by Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown, will have a soft opening today at "Rise of the Stripping Dead" at the Admiral Theatre in Chicago.
Timothy O'Tooles in Chicago is offering "Da Super Fan Challenge" which consists of a half slab of back ribs, ten spicy chicken wings, a Polish sausage sandwich, an Italian beef sandwich, two pounds of french fries and a 23 ounce Miller Lite and is free if finished in under 30 minutes. The challenge is only available on Chicago Bears game days and Mike Ditka's birthday, October 18.
CBS Chicago reports that Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL will hold live cockroach eating contests as part of its Fright Fest on Friday and Saturday.
Registration for the Battle of the Bhut spicy wing eating contest to be held November 6 at Jake Melnick's in Chicago will open tomorrow at 11 am central.
Emily Case and Kristin Decker of WGN will attempt the three pound Triple Undisputed Cheeseburger at Wiener and Still Champion in Evanston, Illinois tomorrow. update Videos of Emily Case discussing the attempt have been posted.
Lucky's Sandwich Co. will hold an eating contest for amateurs at Friday's University of Illinois Chicago soccer game awarding a $300 Best Buy gift card. After the amateur a group of unnamed professional eaters will attempt to eat three Lucky's sandwiches as fast as possible.
The Austrian program Abenteuer Leben - täglich Wissen has a video of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski competing in Bartolini's meatball eating contest last month.
Pat Bertoletti & Tim Brown food truck web page
A web page for Pat Bertoletti and Tim Brown’s food truck has been set up at http://www.gluttonforcefive.com/ (Sir Snugglesworth, Partybot and Pink Unicorn are the other team members.) The truck is offering a sandwich eating challenge awarding $500 to a customer that can beat Pat or Tim’s time. A facebook with a picture of the back of the truck and twitter have also been started. (via RJOPhoto)
Bangers & Lace in Chicago will hold a hot dog eating contest on Labor Day (September 5) awarding a pair of Chicago Bears tickets to the winner.
The 2011 Bacci Pizza contest will take place in Oak Lawn, IL on Saturday and award $1500 to the winner.
Pat Bertoletti appeared on Windy City Live this morning for a cooking demonstration. (via Kooky Canuck)
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