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Get your balls out- it’s coming!  It’s coming!!!  It’s HERE!  The Austin Meatball Takedown is March 13 2-4PM at Shangri La!!!  Let’s BALL!!! Want to eat all the balls you can fit in your mouth!?  Tickets HERE! CALL FOR HOME … Continue reading →

TICKETS JUST $10!!!! GET THEM HERE! Slashing and mauling, Chicago’s chili vikings vs. Satan himself!!!!  Try all the best chilis in the city, and vote on your favorite, in a giant blood orgy of fun!!!! Feb 21 1-3PM at Lincoln … Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!  It’s free! As everyone knows from historically, tacos were invented in Los Angeles (true).  Local cooks! This is the partiest goodest time, you guys. Prove your valor and do this TAKEDOWN!!! Bring your taco … Continue reading →

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 →