Nickel City Chef Blog

Oct 02 2009 ∞

Upcoming WNY Food Events

Having trouble seeing this? Click here to view an online version. http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/529639/4c65ad00c2/1668001639/eed622295a/ Hello Foodies! Today we are excited to share details with you about a number of exciting food events planned for October and beyond. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** VOTE FOR NICKEL CITY Nickel City Chef’s first season was such an amazing success! Thank you to all of you who supported us by attending one or more of our first four competitions at Artisan Kitchens & Baths. We are hard at work on Season 2, but in the interim, we’re pleased to be in the finals for winning People’s Choice Outstanding Event of 2009 through the Buffalo Niagara Event Professionals organization. If you feel that Nickel City Chef’s first season was a unique, exciting and creative event, please support us by taking one minute to vote for us. We’re thrilled to be in the running and appreciate your support! Vote Here!

Aug 18 2009 ∞

Farm Tours, Nickel City Chef & More

Click to view this email in a browser [http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/529639/ef758b8dc1/1668001639/eed622295a/] Feed Your Soul is pleased to announce three upcoming events! Foodie-to-Farm~ Sunday, Sept.13th Chef-to-Farm~ Monday, Sept. 14th Nickel City Chef’s Taste of Autumn~ Thursday, Oct. 15th

Jul 20 2009 ∞

NCC Episode II Results

In case you haven’t yet heard, Nickel City Chef JJ Richert of Torches was our big winner in the second episode of Nickel City Chef, besting Challenging Chef Joseph Fenush III, from Park Country Club.

The results for all of our competitions in the 2009 Summer series are on the Nickel City Chef website. You can view a brief slideshow picturing the well-composed plates of our chefs, the way the points were tallied, etc.

Channel 4 news also did a brief spot on yesterday’s competition, which you can view here.

Don’t forget to check out Nickel City Chef on Facebook—if you use Facebook and haven’t “Become a Fan” of NCC, please do! You can catch a number of additional photos, and get up to the minute reminders and updates on all Nickel City Chef events!

Jun 23 2009 ∞

NCC at Taste of Buffalo

The Taste of Buffalo is just around the corner. Did you know it is one of the largest food festivals in the country?

This year, a number of good people from the Nickel City Chef gang will be cooking on the ToB Culinary Stage. You can see NCC Host Chef Mike Andrzejewski of SeaBar on Sunday, July 12th at 2:10. Nickel City Chef JJ Richert of Torches, our very own culinary daredevil, will also be appearing on Sunday at 4:10. Nickel City Chef Krista Van Wagner of Curly’s (the chef with the biggest smile and a heart of gold) is appearing on Saturday, July 11th at 1:10 and on Sunday, July 12th at 5:10. Check out the full schedule by clicking the link above.

See you there!

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NCCI- The Plates

The results for each competition in the 2009 Summer series will be posted directly on the Nickel City Chef website at the link above. There you can view a brief slideshow picturing the well-composed plates of our chefs, the way the points were tallied, etc. We will also post still photos on the Nickel City Chef Facebook page—if you use Facebook and haven’t “Become a Fan” of NCC, please do!

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"The Meitus Touch"

Vince McConeghy over at WNY LocalFoodService (an industry-to-industry site for area restaurants) attended NCCI on Sunday, and has composed a nice post about it for his blog which we think you’ll enjoy. Thanks, Vince!

Jun 22 2009 ∞

From The Desk of Alan Bedenko

One of our three judges from the Sunday event wrote up a review on his blog. Check it out!

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Buffalo’s own WIVB-TV spotlighted our first competition yesterday. Look closely and see how many people you can recognize in the video!

Jun 19 2009 ∞

Sold Out!

We are thrilled to announce that Buffalo loves Nickel City Chef as much as we love Buffalo! All four Summer 2009 events sold out in just a few days. Thank you to the many of you who got out early and supported us in this exciting venture. If you didn’t get tickets, don’t worry. We’re already in the process of working out the details for Nickel City Chef’s 2nd Season, slated to begin in Winter 2010. The second season is likely to be a little longer. More shows = More tickets! This Sunday’s competition featuring Nickel City Chef Krista Van Wagner of Curly’s and Challenging Chef Brian Mietus of Bacchus is sure to be fun! We’re really looking forward to it and we hope you are, too. See you there!

Jun 12 2009 ∞

Tickets!

Tickets went on sale earlier today! Get them while they’re still available, a couple of the shows are close to selling out!

Check out the tickets page for more information.