Upcoming New York City eating contests
(All New York City eating challenges and contests in database)
Wayne Algenio reports that Joe (fixed) Menchetti won a wing eating contest at Play Lounge in Elmhurst, NY tonight. The first prize was a trip to Las Vegas.
Play Lounge in Elmhurst, NY will hold a wing eating contest on October 8 awarding a trip to Las Vegas.
Ken Excellence has a series of videos recorded at the Chef One Dumpling eating contest held in Brooklyn. Shay Neary, the fourth place finisher in the women's contest, has a blog entry for Citizen Brooklyn. update Sept 25 Chef One has posted their own videos of the contest.
Gino's of Kissena in Flushing, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on September 24 awarding up to $500.
Dave Brunelli ends GJoe’s dumpling streak
update Sept 18
Chef One has galleries and has provided the women’s prizewinners: gallery 1 | gallery 2
Will Millender has a video with interviews
update #2 Womens results
1) Floria Lee 46, women’s record
2) Andrea Johnson 40
3) Taway Yang 38
update Will Millender has the men’s top 7
1) Dave Brunelli 74 – new record, ends Joe Menchetti’s streak
2T) Joe Menchetti 69
2T) Jamie McDonald 69
4) Wayne Algenio 55
5) Will Millender 50
6) John “Oink Oink” Bradley 44
7) Pat Philbin 36 Joe Menchetti has a seven year winning streak in the men’s contest, which might be jeopardized by Jamie McDonald, who is listed as going on the contest facebook event page. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm. (Menchetti’s winning streak is listed after the jump)
The contest will have equal amounts of men and women competing, which is a rarity in competitive eating.
A press release about the Bierhaus NYC National Oktoberfest Bratwurst Eating Championship bills Jamie McDonald as "2012's Competitive Eating Rookie of the Year". Stephanie Torres and Will Millender are also listed as expected entrants.
Badlands Booker wins San Gennaro cannoli contest in eat-off
update Sept 17 Lagalagny has a video of the entire contest
update Sept 15 Larell Marie has a gallery
update Sept 14 Gothamist has a blog entry
The results
1) Eric “Badlands” Booker 22 after 2 cannoli eat-off
2) Yasir Salem 21
3) Kevin “LA Beast” Strahle 18
4) Crazy Legs Conti 17
5) Larell Marie Mele 15
6) Timothy “Tomahawk” Connelly 11
7) Crescenzo Rillo 8
The LJessie has a video of the end of the contest
The Rake and Herald has a contest report
Ed “Cookie” Jarvis will serve as a judge.
The MLE facebook page still lists the contest date as Friday, September 14.
1998 World Trade Center qualifier clips in Footlong documentary
Footlong is a documentary (full movie) about “the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture” that opens with coverage of the 1998 Nathan’s finals (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) including interviews with George Shea, Gersh Kuntzman, Ed Krachie, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and defending champion Hirofumi Nakajima along with brief snippets of the 1998 Nathan’s qualifier held in Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center.
Registration for the cannoli eating contest at the San Gennaro Festival in Manhattan on September 14 (or September 13 according to the festival website) will open on Monday. update Sept 10 Registration will apparently open at 4pm eastern today. The date is still listed as both September 13 and September 14. update Sept 11 Registration is now open.
Registration for the Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 closes today. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000/$500/$300 to the top 3 men and women. A contest will award $100 to a person who guesses the total for the male or female winner correctly.
Hold the Soup, a documentary about the 2005 Ruthie & Gussie's matzo ball eating contest, can be viewed on youtube. Don Lerman, Ron Koch, Brian Seiken, Badlands Booker and Crazy Legs Conti are interviewed.
The balut (duck embryo) eating contest held in Brooklyn on Saturday might be the most publicized prizeless contest since the 2006 Nathan's finals. (NY Times City Room preview | Yahoo! Postgame | competitor blog entry | Brooklyn Paper | Yahoo! Philippines gallery | ITN (gets winner and date wrong). Wayne Algenio, top amateur at the recent Dani's House of Pizza contest, won the contest with a total of 18 balut in 5 minutes.
Today is the 100th anniversary of a New York Times article about an eating contest where the winner, Alderman Frank J. Dotzler, ate 9.25 pounds of steak, 19 rolls and 11 cups of coffee. (via @1912_NYT)
Stephanie "Serpentina" Torres will MC a "brain" eating contest held during Monster Ball on Coney Island Saturday night.
Jamie McDonald reports he won the pizza eating contest at Dani's House of Pizza in Queens today. Dave Brunelli was the runner-up and Pat Philbin was third. update Aug 23 StephieMarie101 has videos: Part 1 | Part 2
Registration for the 2012 Chef One Dumpling eating contest to be held at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn on September 15 is not now open. As in previous years, the contest will pay out $1000 / $500 / $300 to the top three male and female entrants.
The 2012 Chef One Dumpling contest will take place on September 15 at Smorgasburg in Brooklyn. Previous years' contests have awarded $1800 to both men and women.
Dani's House of Pizza in Queens, NY will hold a pizza eating contest on August 18 awarding $1250 ($750 to the winner). Qualifiers will be held on August 4 and 18.
Broadway World reports that the Fest of San Gennaro will hold its cannoli eating contest on September 13 in Little Italy in lower Manhattan.
A press release announces that 230 Fifth in Manhattan will sell a hot dog costing $2300 with all proceeds being donated to the City Harvest charity. The rooftop bar was the site of a 2011 exhbition where Takeru Kobayashi reportedly ate 69 hot dogs.
Dani's House of Pizza in Queens announced its pizza eating contest will award $500 to the winner. (No other details are provided.)
Will Millender has the top 3 in today's hands-free watermelon eating contest held at the Public House in Manhattan: 1) "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti 2) Dave Brunelli 3) Will Millender. Johnnie Excel (who has moved to the east coast) and Pat Philbin also competed. There was a choking incident, but everyone is reportedly all right now. update July 23 Will Millender has a contest report
2012 Nathan’s finals coverage Part 2
General contest links
- Alt.variety contest report
- Slate.com column about Mayor Bloomberg’s apparent hypocrisy
- Piers Morgan of CNN blog entry
- Major League Eating recap video
- AFP contest videos in French | Spanish | Portuguese | Japanese
- Village Voice gallery
- Flickr galleries: helenofzuo | branko (not safe for work)
- Katina Wrocki line drawings
Competitor-specific links
- Joey Chestnut interview on 1090 San Diego: transcript | podcast (Joey reiterates his criticisms of Kobayashi he has made previously.)
- Sean Gordon podcast on the Man Cave Podcast. (Sean describes his disqualification from a 2008 Nathan’s qualifier)
- Pete Davekos podcast on ballhogs radio
- Matt Stonie gallery | Vlog Part 1 | Part 2
- Meredith Boxberger vlog Part 1 | Part 2
Crif Dog Classic coverage part 2
update July 12 24hpp gallery | Johnnie Excel vlog
- Carrot Blog contest report
- Cyrience blog entry and gallery
- Podcast of interview with Kobayashi after contest
- Brian Seiken post-contest thoughts | interview with Furious Pete
- Bleacher Report videos : slow motion | in reverse
The MLE facebook confirms that the Hooters wing eating contest finals will take place in Clearwater, FL on July 26 instead of in New York City on July 27. The new finals site was mentioned in a June 26 press release about the Fresno pre-qualifier.
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