Upcoming New York City eating contests
(All New York City eating challenges and contests in database)
The Wall Street Journal has an article about event dining mentioning a 72 ounce steak at the Arlington Club in Manhattan. The item costs $550 (listed as $555 in the original article), but does include a 16 ounce lobster tail. (try Google News if article not accessible)
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi will be at a cake eating contest in New York City tomorrow to promote the final season of Bridezillas. She was booed at Wing Bowl 18 three years ago.
June 2 MLE contest fields: Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt and Matt Stonie are expected to compete in Sunday's pastrami sandwich eating contest at Katz's Deli in Manhattan, Badlands Booker and Molly Schuyler are listed as favorites in the St. Paul, MN Nathan's qualifier and Sonya Thomas is expected to defend her Acme Oyster title in New Orleans. update May 29 Joey Chestnut confirms he will compete at Katz's and Aaron Osthoff will leave for New Orleans today.
Man Fuel has a blog entry by Mandy about her competitive eating history. She has completed two of the three New York burger challenges she has attempted.
Pitopia in Manhattan will hold a falafel ball eating contest on June 2 awarding an iPad mini to the winner.
Nathan Famous' main Coney Island location reopened at 7 pm yesterday.
Sunday's episode of On the Run at the Brooklyn Half [Marathon] can be viewed on youtube. Yasir Salem's segment starts at 17:55.
Pat Bertoletti appears on a picture promoting a contest awarding 4 front row seats in the Nathan's finals.
NY1 has an article about the planned reopening of the main Coney Island Nathan's on Memorial Day weekend.
Yasir Salem will appear on this weekend's episode (ABC 7 Sunday 1:00 pm) of "NY RR on the Run at the Brooklyn Half [Marathon]" which will end near Nathan's Coney Island location. (Flashback: According to Mortimer Matz, Nathan's had the opportunity to be the main sponsor of the New York City Marathon in the 1976)
The WE network will hold a cake eating contest for brides-to-be in New York City on May 30 awarding $10,000 to promote the new season of Bridezillas.
Joey Chestnut is expected to compete in the pastrami sandwich eating contest at Katz's Deli in New York City June 2.
The Brooklyn Pizza Eating Contest sponsored by Rocco's Pizzeria will take place at the Bay Ridge 5th Avenue Festival on June 2. Last year's contest awarded $450 ($300 to the winner).
The House of Cupcakes announces it will unveil a 25 pound (35,800 calorie) cupcake with the face of Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the opening of its New York City location on Thursday.
The New York Post reports there was a fire yesterday at the Coney Island Nathan's located at Surf & Stillwell. There were no injuries.
MLE will hold a pastrami sandwich eating contest on June 2 in Manhattan in honor of Katz's Deli 125th anniversary.
Crazy Legs Conti has a report for Huffington Post about spectating at the Coney Island Boardwalk Nathan's qualifier and Edward Leavy Jr. has some pictures from that event (page 1 | page 2) (It is interesting that none of the approximately 10 million in greater NYC wanted and/or received a berth in the qualifier)
2013 Coney Boardwalk qualifier
update March 26 Jason Beinstein has a video. A caption says David Soberman ate 13 hot dogs.
Rake & Herald, Grub Street and Amusing the Zillion have contest reports
The qualifier was mentioned (without any footage) on Good Morning America
update March 24 Brian Seiken has posted some videos
update The winners
“Notorious” Bob Shoudt 36 hot dogs
Larell Marie Mele 17
update #2 Other results
“Wild” Bill Myers 13
Andrew Kossuth 12.5
“Beautiful” Brian Seiken 11 (thinks he ate 13)
Crazy Legs Conti was on site
update #3 Brooklyn Gossip has a gallery
The current temperature is 45F (Is this the coldest outside contest in IFOCE/MLE history?)
Lola Star announces that she will not be holding a veggie dog event on the Coney Island boardwalk tomorrow in conjunction with the Nathan's qualifier and claims that Nathan's called her landlord to prevent her from holding the counter-contest. update The July 4 veggie contest is still on
A possible future Carnegie Deli ad?: "Coach Calipari, your Kentucky Wildcats have just lost in the first round of the NIT to Robert Morris, where are you going?" Calipari: "I'm going to the Carnegie Deli with Takeru Kobayashi".
The high temperature for Saturday's kickoff of the 2013 Nathan's circuit on the Coney Boardwalk is projected to be 43 °F. This might make it the coldest Nathan's qualifier ever. The only possible post-2005 rival is probably the June 6, 2009 qualifier in Minnesota where the high temperature was 52 °F.
Comments about next Saturday's qualifier on the Coney Island Boardwalk in the 54 inch pizza challenge thread have been moved to this post.
Lola Star, organizer of a July 4 Coney Island veggie dog contest, is also planning a veggie dog event held in conjunction with the opening Nathan's qualifier on the Coney Island boardwalk on March 23. Lola claims the counter-contest will be "more of a performance to make vegetarianism look sexy & appealing... And make their gluttonous contest look extra appalling in contrast"
Nathan’s qualifier circuit to open March 23 on Coney Island Boardwalk
update March 8 Crain’s New York has an incorrect claim that the March 23 qualifier will be the first Coney Island Nathan’s contest held on a date other than July 4. Erik Denmark won a Coney Island qualifier on July 3, 2006.. In the 1970s, contests were held at various days in the summer, including Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend.
BrooklynPaper.com reports that the 2013 Nathan’s qualifier circuit will open on March 23 at the Nathan’s location on the Coney Island Boardwalk. Expected competitors include Tim “Eater X” Janus, Eric “Badlands” Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and “Michelle” [sic] Marie Mele. The Nathan’s location on the boardwalk will open March 18 and the main restaurant at Surf & Stillwell is hoping to complete post-Sandy reconstruction by Memorial Day.
update Registration is now open for the boardwalk qualifier. The first qualifier of the Hooters circuit in Panama City, FL is also accepting entrants.
IFOCE.com lists the qualifier cities as Las Vegas, Boston, Miami and Naples, FL, Atlanta and Savannah, GA, St. Paul, MN, Queens, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Calgary and East Rutherford, NJ.
update #2 2012 qualifer sites which are not listed include Garden City, MI, Atlantic City, Concord, NC, Thackerville, OK and Tempe, AZ. If no qualifiers are added, there will be one qualifier each in the central (St. Paul), mountain (calgary) and Pacific (Las Vegas) time zones.
update #3 A press release says the finals will start at noon and be televised on ESPN.
Lola Star announces she is planning a "sexy, fabulous veggie hotdog eating contest/performance" in Coney Island and she has asked a Nathan's finalist to cross over to her competition.
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