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Hey Los Angeles!  CALL FOR ICE CREAM MAKERS!!!  Bring your finest batch of ice cream- I’ll supply the dry ice and tasting cups!  It’s the first ever L.A. Ice Cream Takedown!!! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!!! Sept 11, 2016 2-4PM at … Continue reading →

Did you ever know a pooch that could wrestle octopuses?  Or skateboard into infinity? Or sniff other dogs butts?  Who knows alternate realities these brilliant Brooklyn artists will paint for you…  and you can buy them at auction!  All profits … Continue reading →

August 14th, 1-3PM at Hill Country Barbecue in Brooklyn (345 Adams St.)!!!! Want to come and geezle?  You’re there to drink the finest chuggers Brooklyn’s home brewers have to offer!!! And pad your stomachs with the finest BBQ in the … Continue reading →

Hey there, Life Embracers and Bone Chillers!  You have just stumbled upon another chance for a notch on your bazooka. The Ice Cream Takedown wants to know you!  Enter a batch of your finest ice cream and compete for prizes and … Continue reading →

The Fermented Foods Takedown is moving venues!  And the new ticket price is a SUGGESTED DONATION! Radian Building 5th floor lounge 120 Kingston Street, Boston, MA For info email jeremyogusky@gmail.com Kefir, Kim chi, katsuobushi, kombucha… and that’s just the K’s, jack!!!! There’s a … Continue reading →

Forget everything you thought you think you thought you knew about Jewish Food!  Or remember fondly!  Point is, Brooklyn’s home cooks are going to part the seas of your perceptions, doods.  CALL FOR COOKS!  Bring your funnest takes, interps and … Continue reading →

May 15 Noon-2PM at Royal Palms!!! Call for cooks!  Bring the filling- I’ll provide the tortillas! Serve your highly interesting taco to a crowd of highly interested NYers.  They will love you for it.  Prize package$ from Cuisinart, Wushtof, Anolon, … Continue reading →

April 17 Noon-2PM at Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club!!!! CALL FOR COOKS!  Email me at Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete for muchoz prizoz! Take me to your leader, they said!  And you nominated Matt Timms! Are we prepared? For the other-worldly invasion of the nummiest mac and … Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS!  Compete for insane prizes, pride and blood and love! Last year was huge.  This year will be more huger!!!! Come investigate the importance of Chicago tacos, April 10, 2-4PM at Lincoln Hall! It’s all you can eat … Continue reading →

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR! Yay!!!!  March 20 Noon-2PM at Royal Palms is the time for megaballs up in you!!!  The finest that Brooklyn has to offer!!!! (Ahem… this is widely considered by esperts to be the happiest takedown…) Eat! CALL … Continue reading →