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 one stage, playing  with inner flesh of the most evelist fish: the LOBSTER!

Thanks to Luke’s Lobster, especially for donating 150lbs of lobster meat!!!  And to the great people at Royal Palms, because every day we’re shufflin!!!!!

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Takedown elite, fighting for supremacy using the badassiest crustacian under the sea!!! What will their sacrilegious minds produce, and serve to you!? Steamed vs. Boiled?!  Vote on the most enthralling creation as you try each one!!!

TIX HERE!!!

Luke’s Lobster sponsors this most exotic and special of TDs!!!!!!

Art by the notorious

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

That’s it, I’m never drinking again.  For real this time I swear!  Oh man though from what I remember, it was all smiles and brilliance!!!! How did everyone keep it together so good? And then suddenly a flash flood sealed us hermetically into Hill Country Barbecue, where we force-chugged 17 different homebrews and laughed and laughed!!!!  What a day!!!!!

Here’s all the brews and the necessary winners of the first-ever Brooklyn Homebrew Takedown!!!

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TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR!!!!!

Sample 18 different beers!!!!  Want to come chug the homebrews and vote on the sudsiest?  TIX LINK HERE…  Best part is, you’re at Hill Country Barbecue in downtown Brooklyn, so  there’ll be plenty of the smartest, most goodest grub to power you!!!!

HOMEBREWERS! Still a couple spots open, so bring your homebrew (5 gallons) on down to Hill Country BBQ (BK), Aug 16 1-3PM!!! You and a teammate in free to compete for prizes from Cuisinart, Wusthof, Anolon and Microplane!!! Email matt at thetakedowns dot com

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What an insane Sunday!!!! We let them out of the Big House for the day, so you could sample their decadent and menacing ice creams!  These “people” are insane criminals with terrifying skills on the churn.  I hope you were there, because this was a rare opportunity to try ice cream gone truly berserk!!!!! Continue reading →

CALL FOR ICE CREAM COOKS!  Email Matt@thetakedowns.com to compete!

Summer is a terrible time. My skin goes lobster red and I cry a lot, covered in aloe.  If you’re not like me, you’re super cool and your cocoa tan attracts the opposite sexes.  What I do, at a time like this, is eat ice cream.  You can too!!!! UNLIMITED  ICE CREAMZ MADE BY BROOKLYN’S FINEST HOME COOKS, DOODS!!!!

TICKETS HERE (TICKET LINK COMING SOON)!

Check out this year’s Ice Cream art, by Nikklas åkerblad – the Swedish artist who did most of the promo art for the World’s Dopest Video Game: Hotline Miami!!!!  I tracked him down via Skype, and he’s a raging homicidal maniac who just wants to help out!  Did you know?  Ice Cream Ronins roam the earth in secret- hired assassins who’s only reward is more ice creamz!!!!

* yeah world famous, for real! We were on Japanese Television (NHK) last year, in a hugemongous ice cream fight!

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Ahem.  I have some really, really, really… reallyreallyreally Good News. Matt Timms is hosting the Brooklyn TACO Takedown, May 31 noon – 2PM at Royal Palms!!!!  If you can’t make it… well, let’s just say I guess that is nacho day. (yesss!)

CALL FOR COOKS!  Want to compete????  Tortilla sponsor Torterilla Nextimal will give you 220 mini (4″) tortillas to fill with whatever you deem most badass! Super authentico?  O muy loco?  Matt Timms cares not because I LOVE TACOS you guys!!! I want to eat them all!!!

Want to come eat all the tacos like it’s Satan’s birthday? Tickets available HERE (21+)!!!

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Here’s the wrap up – you had to see it to believe it!  A 20 ton Mac and Cheeze Kaiju spiraled into existance from a cheeze typhoon created by 25 local home cooks – it stomped around The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club, destroying everything in its path with its power cheeze breath while everyone laughed and laughed!  Sadly, the kaiju emits special xray power rays that render photographs impossible.

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Fill those tacos!!!!  (!)  I’m looking for Chicago’s home cooks to get evil with the most wondrous and perfect dish…   On my last visit to your rad town, I noticed that whoah, Chicagoans are Mexican food snobs like no other.  So I said oh DOY, why not a Chicago Taco Takedown!?? Let’s do this, home cooks!  Email me at chilitakedown@gmail.com to COMPETE FOR PRIZES!

APRIL 19 2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!

Want to eat a gadgillion tacos?  TICKETS AT LINCOLN HALL!

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