Mammoth Brewing’s beer/bear garden opens

Mammoth Brewing’s outdoor beer garden opened Tuesday evening, and Thai’d Up will be offering on-site food throughout the weekend. The beer garden will be open from 10 a.m. until dusk, seven days a week. It will accommodate individuals or parties of approximately 100 people. Photo courtesy: Pellegrini.
Mammoth Brewing’s outdoor beer garden opened Tuesday evening, and Thai’d Up will be offering on-site food throughout the weekend. The beer garden will be open from 10 a.m. until dusk, seven days a week. It will accommodate individuals or parties of approximately 100 people. Photo courtesy: Pellegrini.

Burger Battle.

The Mammoth Food & Wine Experience, taking place July 11 – 12, has been notified by World Food Championships that the winner of the 2014 “Best-of-the-Best-Burger Battle: 405 vs. 395” is an Official Qualifying Entrant in their November competition in Las Vegas.

Now in its third year, the World Food Championships is the ultimate culinary competition, featuring more than 500 competitors from around the world competing in nine categories.

Participation is by invitation only, and contestants must win to get in.

“We were very excited to open the mail last week and find the notice along with the golden ticket that is awarded to the winner of our Burger Battle,” said Event Manager Nora Urdi. “Including our Mammoth Food & Wine Experience, Burger Battle in its second year is a credit to the event and its participants.”

Only 50 entrants worldwide are automatically accepted into the Burger Battle portion of the 2014 World Food Championships.

The Burger Battle event in the Mammoth Food & Wine Experience is a fun kick-off to the weekend’s festivities, and a great way to get people excited about a weekend of food and wine events supporting the Mammoth Lakes Foundation.

Chris Lucchese of Off-Track Cooking in L.A. made an early commitment to return; he participated last year. A multi-time winner of the Los Angeles Times’ own Burger Battle, Lucchese is hard at work perfecting this year’s burger entry.  The added component of a possible trip to Las Vegas for the World Food Championship has raised the ante!

Lucchese was joined early by Chef Jason Hoeltzel of CJs Grill in Mammoth Lakes. Throwing their respective hat into the ring shortly after, and before hearing about the possible entrance into the World Food Championships in November, were Steve Miller, Grill Chef at Rock Creek Lakes Resort in Rock Creek and Rena McCullough of Ohana’s 395 Food Truck/Catering in Lee Vining.

Last year’s winner, Chef Matt Toomey, returns this year as a celebrity judge, along with Brad Metzger, a Los Angeles based authority in Hospitality Recruiting and Human Resources, and Sean Turner of Mammoth Brewing Company, who is providing the liquid libations at the July 11 competition.

Tickets for the “Best-of-the-Best Burger Battle: 405 vs. the 395” are available at MammothFoodandWine.org.

Come celebrate a great cause, cheer on your favorites, and help kick off the 2014 Mammoth Food & Wine Experience by participating in the Best-of-the-Best-Burger Battle-405 vs. the 395!  We’re going to Vegas, baby!

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