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SOLD OUT!!!! A Valentine’s Day Takedown…  eat the shit out of a ton of chocolate, and learn…to love 🙁 … I’m actually wicked proud to say that since I’ve started doing this thing 15 years ago, 4 couples have met … Continue reading →

It’s going to be January soon!  Get ready to be miserable!!!  But lo!  What the crap is this?! A Soup Takedown!!!?  Ramens and chowders and bisques!  Bouillabaisses and Egg-drops and Mulligatawnies! Split peas and Phos and Posoles!!!!!  Explore the boundaries … Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS!!! Boston, the Takedowns are back, and I’m bringing back the classic: The Boston Chili Takedown!!! Pot after pot of the massivest bowls of red that Boston can stew up and dish forth!!!  If you aren’t there, you’ll … Continue reading →

New studies have shown that eating cookies is important to do!  I don’t know where I read that- but it was in a book.  Thanks Royal Palms- the perfect venue to trip balls on 30 different varieties of sugar pucks, … Continue reading →

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR! It’s the holidays and we all know what that means: Murder! I mean COOKIES!!!!  ONE SERIOUS DAY OF SERIOUS COOKIES!   Come Sunday Dec 13, and feast on endless cookies!  A massive orgy of Brooklyn’s best Cookies!!!! Brooklyn Cookie … Continue reading →

Thanks hujunkously the home cooks of NYC.  Innovators, Geniuses, and Stealers of My Sharpies! I love you all!!!  What a blast was to be had Sunday at Royal Palms- a sea of various reds, two of them veg, even!!!

Get heavy, Brooklyn.  Be not ye daunted by the ferociousness of the savagery of the carnal brutality of chili hell!  Embrace your satanic impulse to consume this filthy mess, over and over till the End of Days!!!!  25-30 local competitors boil … Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS! Email Matt@thetakedowns.com to compete for tons of prizes!!!!!! Matt Timms presents the Chicago Mac and  Cheeze Takedown – November 8, 1-3PM at Lincoln Hall!!!! Chicago’s home cooking scene collectively roll up their sleeves and commence to smackin! … Continue reading →

    TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR!!!!!!  SEE YOU THERE!!!!! CALL FOR COOKS!  What will you impale!!!?  The Minnesota State Fair is the slaughter pit of your mind!!!!  The presidential candidates will suckle at your teats!!!!  Email me at Matt@thetakedowns.com to … Continue reading →

This takedown was like a private tour of the court of Mount Olympus – with each of the Takedown Gods firing thunderbolts at your mouth, for your impudence!!!  Some (but not all) of the Takedown’s greatest stars were together on … Continue reading →