Upcoming Las Vegas eating contests
Las Vegas eating challenges
(All Las Vegas eating challenges and contests in database)
South Point Casino in Las Vegas will hold a spaghetti eating contest on Saturday awarding $1000. The contest will be televised on an upcoming program. (via thedarkestdream)
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez announces that he was the first person to finish Bugsy's Challenge Burger at the Flamingo Las Vegas with a time of 15 minutes. Al Harrington of the NBA failed to complete the challenge last week.
The Las Vegas Sun has information about the pretzel eating contest at Ellis Island Casino on Saturday that will award $500 to the winner.
Haute Living reports that Al Harrington of the NBA's Denver Nuggets attempted the 4.5 Bugsy Challenge burger at Burger Joint in Flamingo Las Vegas on Saturday. (gallery) update Oct 27 Hardwood Paroxysm has a guide to attacking the burger defense. update Nov 7 A FunnyOrDie video of the challenge is available.
Four Brazilians (3 women) are currently attempting the 8 pound burger challenge at the Vegas Pub inside Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.
Boulder Station in Las Vegas holds food challenges during halftimes of Monday Night Football games awarding $100.
The third location for the Heart Attack Grill opened today at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas. Like the previous locations, the restaurant offers a Quadruple Bypass Burger listed at 8,000 calories and offers free food to customers weighing more than 350 pounds.
El Toro has emailed that Rich LeFevre has been prohibited from ordering Chicken Bonz' all-you-can-eat wings for $12.95. They have a sign saying that only Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi are not allowed to order AYCE wings.
Ellis Island Casino in Las Vegas will hold a pretzel eating contest on October 29 awarding $500 to the winner.
Naader Reda finished the 120 ounce steak challenge at Brand in Las Vegas last night. If the steak is not finished, it costs $270, which is probably the most expensive eating challenge. update After the steak, Naader ate 100 oz. of yogurt and ate 10 pounds of pho noodles the next day.
East West Pizza in Las Vegas will hold a pizza eating contest on September 17 awarding a High Definition Television to the winner.
The Burger Joint at the Flamingo in Las Vegas is considering adding a burger challenge to its menu.
Pearce Cleveland announces that the Liquid Pool Lounge in Las Vegas will hold a cherry pie eating contest on Thursday awarding $1,000 to the winner.
Naader Reda has a blog entry about being the first person to finish the "I Can't Drive 55" Nacho Challenge at Cabo Wabo Cantina in Las Vegas.
Johnnie Excel has a blog entry about his recent eating contests and challenges in Las Vegas.
Johnny McGuire's Deli in Las Vegas announces that William finished the 24 inch sub challenge in 5 minutes and 50 seconds. The previous record according to Andrew Lane's picture of the Wall of Fame appears to be Tom's 10:42. (Rich LeFevre's times were 18 & 20 minutes). Aubrey (probably the 2-time B3 burrito finisher) claims to have finished the sandwich challenge.
The facebook for Ellis Island Casino in Las Vegas has a gallery of Saturday's chili dog eating contest won by Tom Gilbert.
The Ellis Island Casino twitter has the top 3 of tonight's hot dog eating contest: 1) Tom Gilbert 2) Johnnie Excel 3) Rich LeFevre
The facebook for Ellis Island Casino in Las Vegas has posted a list of the competitors in Saturday's hot dog eating contest that will award $1750. One of the entrants is "Rich Lefeure", which might be a misspelling of LeFevre.
Las Vegas Weekly has a report about competing against Las Vegas Magazine in a team pickle eating contest held as an undercard event in last Friday's pickle competition at the Mirage.
B3 Burrito final statistics
The Sahara in Las Vegas, site of the NASCAR Cafe, closed yesterday. Here are the final statistics from the NASCAR Cafe’s B3 Burrito challenge according to public information:
- 42: Number of people who finished the burrito in under 90 minutes
- Over 4,000: Number of people purchasing the burrito (according to a yelp comment)
- 6 minutes: Record finishing time by Joey Chestnut
- Other announced sub 20 minute times: Ben Monson 12 minutes, Matt Stonie 15 minutes, Shawn Cochran 19 minutes
- 38 minutes: Announced Women’s record by Stephanie Torres (This forum thread says her women’s record was broken in January, but does not give the name or time.)
- 2: Most times finishing burrito by Aubrey (might be other unpublicized multiple finishers)
- 3+: Number of female finishers
- May 1, 2011: date of 42nd and final completion by Mark from California
The Mirage's facebook has a gallery of Friday's pickle eating contest held at the Carnegie Deli in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Review Journal has an article about the closing of the Sahara casino tomorrow, the site of the NASCAR Cafe which featured the 6 pound B^3 burrito challenge.
Eating Las Vegas reports that Joe LaRue won today's pickle eating contest at the Carnegie Deli at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Stacy Hamilton says that Joe ate more than four pounds of pickles.
Ellis Island Casino & Brewery will hold qualifiers today and May 19 for a hot dog eating contest on May 28 awarding $1,000 to the winner.
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