Upcoming New York City eating contests
New York City eating challenges
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Wayne Algenio received a Guinness World Record yesterday at the New York City Hot Sauce Expo in Brooklyn for eating 119g of Carolina Reaper peppers in 1 minute.
Studio Kraut in Manhattan will hold a pretzel eating contest on April 26 awarding $500 to the winner.
Randy Santel and Wayne Algenio will attempt the burger challenge at Clinton Hall in New York City tonight. The Wall Street Journal will cover the attempt. update Randy & Wayne both finished with a time of 10:16
Bernie Sanders made a campaign visit to the Coney Island Nathan's Famous. REM singer Michael Stipe, who has claimed to be vegetarian, was also in attendance.
CP Talent Management is requesting a real competitive eater for filming in New York City on April 19-20. Auditions will take place in the next few days.
Collectively Free, an animal rights protest group that stormed the Nathan's finals stage between the women's & men's Nathan's finals last year, disrupted the Easter Mass service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The rationale for the disruption was the use of ham as a common Easter meal.
Sincerely Burger in Bushwick, Brooklyn has a five pound burger challenge available for $99. Only one challenge burger will be made per night.
Jenn Cheng, the 3rd place female in the eating contest at the 2015 New York City Dumpling Festival won tonight's episode of Chopped College Edition on the Food Network. update March 17 MCall.com article about the runner-up
Takeru Kobayashi will attend tonight's charity ping pong contest between boxers Boyd “Rainmaker†Melson and Chris Galaeno at SPiN New York. Other guests include Susan Sarandon, Rosie Perez and Kenny Anderson.
The Ainsworth in New York City has a macaroni and cheese burger challenge that awards $500 to a finisher. Wayne Algenio is the only person to have finished it.
Nathan's Famous is listed as the presenter of the the Father's Day cap promotion at the June 19 Mets game, so that is the most likely day of the 2016 Nathan's New York City qualifier.
The schedule for the 2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo announces there will be 7 spicy eating contests in Brooklyn over April 23 and 24.
Johnny Utah's in Manhattan will hold a Mardi Gras eating contest tonight awarding $100 and a spot in a finals contest (the date & prizes for the finals are not listed).
A press release about Nathan's Famous centennial announces that a special event will be held in New York City in September. Could this be the Joey Chestnut vs. Takeru Kobayashi matchup that Joey Chestnut mentioned last year?
Sanctified and Swole has uploaded a video of a GoGo Curry eating contest he did versus Jenn Cheng, the third place female at September's NYC Dumpling Festival. Her instagram is https://instagram.com/jennfierce.
Johnny Utah's in Manhattan is starting weekly eating contests today awarding $100 to the winner. Tonight's food is hot wings.
DNAInfo reports that Brick Lane Curry House, site of the challenge in the New York City episode of Man vs. Food was closed after failing a health inspection. Issues included rats, mice and lack of a working sewage disposal system.
VS Talent Group is looking for a male competitive eater between 20 and 35. The project and filming location is not disclosed, it appears to be in NYC or New Jersey.
Everyday Actors has posted a casting call for males in their 20s for a short film about competitive eating to be produced in New York City.
Brooklyn Casting has posted a request for amateur competitive eaters to participate in restaurant eating challenges.
The Fink Beats the Stomach podcast announces the Finkies competitive eating awards ceremony at Bar 9 in New York City on January 16. Voting will open December 1 for 5 categories: male eater of the year, female of the year, rookie of the year, upset of the year and youtube feat of the year.
Molly Schuyler threepeats Bierhaus Brats
The top 4 in today’s bratwurst eating contest at Bierhaus in Manhattan.
| 1st | 50 | Molly Schuyler | contest record |
| 2nd | 27 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | All Pro Eating debut |
| 3rd | 24 | David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli | |
| 4th | 22 | Wayne “wayneywonder” Algenio | |
| 5th | 21.5 | Carmen Cincotti | |
| 6th | 16 | Mike Deitz | |
| 7th | 14 | Patrick “Lumberjack” Taylor | |
| 8th | 3 | Gina Allero |
Battle of the Big Eaters 3 is recording today in Times Square. Team USA appears to be represented by Bob Shoudt and Tom Gilbert. update Team Japan reportedly won its matchup vs. Shoudt/Gilbert Pat Bertoletti faced off against a blondish girl I had not seen before. update #2 Pat competed against Hitomi Sato. It appears Molly Schuyler faced off against Hatsuyo Sugawara.
The FBTSpod twitter has the finishing times for Yasir Salem (6 hours 28 minutes) & Crazy Legs Conti (7:05) in yesterday's New York City Marathon. Conti's time was about 3 times as long as female champion Mary Keitany's result of 2:24.
Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran reports that he is in New York City to represent the UK in the third edition of TV Tokyo's Battle of the Big Eaters.
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