The Takedown

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 land- Hill Country Barbecue!!!!

TICKETS HERE!  ($20 for all the homebrews you can drink, $40 for all the homebrews you can drink and a Hill Country Brat, and all you can eat nachos, queso, and frito pie!)

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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 godlike monster status! CALL FOR COOKS (email Matt@TheTakedowns.com)

July 17 noon-2PM at Royal Palms!!!  Tickets HERE if you’re ready to EAT all them ice creamz!!!

(Thanks to artist Ashley Zelinskie for her chilly pornographic rendering!!!)

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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The Fermented Foods Takedown is moving venues!  And the new ticket price is a SUGGESTED DONATION!

For info email jeremyogusky@gmail.com

Kefir, Kim chi, katsuobushi, kombucha… and that’s just the K’s, jack!!!! There’s a bajillion fermented foods out there.  What importantly massive dish are you going to make with fermented foods!?  The Takedown is getting fizzy with ideas, and we want to see yours. Soups? Breads?  Sandwiches? Drinks?  Or maybe your fermented food stands on its own!  CALL FOR COOKS!  This time, the Takedown has teamed up with Jeremy Ogusky, the leviathan of the fermentation world, the throbbing mind behind Boston Ferments!

Boston Fermented Takedown is June 26th, 2-4PM at The Radian Building – 120 Kingston St!   The Cooks are fighting for the most magicalest prizes… We have 5 of Jeremy Ogusky’s handcrafted, large scale limited-edition fermentation crock trophies!!! Check them out below!!! 

Get fermenting, yo!

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 classic recipes of Jewish Food to this food party- a serious funblast for The Chosen and their goy chums to kitchen compete!

Reaper Pepper Latkes!? Fried Chicken and Challah?! Your grandmother’s Borscht? Explore the psychedelic cosmos of Jewish creations….

Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to enter…  Or want to come eat and party?! Tickets HERE

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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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, Microplane! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!!!

OR hey! Do you know how to EAT tacos?  Maybe you’d like to come try!  Unlimited tacos TIX HERE!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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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 cheezez into the bellies of Brooklyn’s finest food eaters!!? Because speaking for the whole human race, I say yes! I am ready to succumb!!!

Tickets HERE if you want to eat eat eat eat eat eateateateateat…

Want to compete? Come at me! Make 2 trays of your finest mac and cheeze. No rules! I’ll supply sterno, tasting cups, etc…

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PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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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 tacos, from Chicago’s finest taco cooks!!

Tickets HERE!

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PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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 FOR COOKS!  Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to enter and compete for juicy prizes from Cuisinart, Wusthof, Anolon and Microplane!!!

Or come eat your brains out! Tickets HERE! (21+!!!!!)

(art by arch-baller Gunsho!)

MEAT SPONSOR:

Happy Valley Meat Company connects small, local farms with chefs and foodies who care about knowing where their meat comes from. All of our meat is pasture-raised, free of antibiotics and hormones, and traceable back to the farm where it was raised. 

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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 COOKS, we want your balls!!!! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete for prizes!

Art by the infamous Gunsho!!!!!!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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 Hall!!!

CALL FOR COOKS!!! Email at Matt@TheTakedowns.com to bring your smartest chili in, and compete for Cuisinart, Anolon, Wusthof and Microplane cookware prize packages!!!

Want to eat and eat and eat? Tickets HERE!!!!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!