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Entrant list is FULL! WAIT LIST IS CLOSED! Buy tickets to come on down and see what the 30 cooks got up their sleeves!!! And email me to get on the mailing list – so you never miss another Takedown … Continue reading →

Thanks to all the brilliant cooks who came to Great Scott yesterday, lined up at their Takedown Stations,  and proceeded to dump gallons of steaming Mac and Cheeze into the mouths of hungry Bostonians. It was a thing  to behold.  … Continue reading →

Taylor and Harry of the Brooklyn Kitchen have done it once again, and asserted themselves as the nicest and coolest cookware people there possibly is. They are friends with the takedown, and they mean to prove it, by donating amazing … Continue reading →

One would think a brilliant school like Yale would have a lick of integrity! Or the mental skillz to develop their own awesome ideas.  This place produces some of America’s brightest students, and houses the brainiest faculty in the Ivies! … Continue reading →

Coming soon, the Recipe Page here at the Takedown will feature all the recipes from your favorite Takedown chefs! In the meantime, I’ll randomly throw these up in the blog! Here, in Noah B’s own words – is his recipe … Continue reading →

Chow.com, in association with Chowhound, has deemed it necessary to give Matt Timms the Coolest Guy Award, for most coolest guy!!! Alongside the likes of Dogfish Brewery, Stumptown Coffee, and Thisiswhyyourefat.com – I seem to have made a sizable dent … Continue reading →

COMPETITOR LIST IS NOW CLOSED! You can still get on the waiting list if you so choose! People sometimes drop out, so competing is still a happy posibility! COMPETITOR LIST IS NOW CLOSED! You can still get on the waiting … Continue reading →

Takedown ventures forth to greet the barbarian hordes of the Commonwealth… Bostonians! I come in peathe! And with a brilliant idea, check it out: you guys make a ton of Mac and Cheeze on November 15, and bring it down … Continue reading →

Here you go, dudes, the winning Lamb Takedown recipe, and proof that The Takedown is a tool for social change! The people, they picked. They loved Jeff Allen and Diella Koberstein with a seriousness.  Jeff and Diel’s Uyghur Lamb recipe … Continue reading →

and you loved it! Visit Metromix for a the whole photo gallery! and another up at Village Voice! Thanks to all the contestants – I cry real tears (not really) when I think how incredibly cool you guys are for … Continue reading →