Grand Tasting & Bartenders Bubbly Bash
The Sysco Foods Taste of the Beach Chefs Grand Tasting & Bartenders Bubbly Bash, the grand finale event, on Sunday, March 26th will be the hottest ticket in town with 18 restaurants along with the best beverage vendors to give you a culinary experience of a lifetime. Join us at the Port O’ Call Restaurant in the heart of Kill Devil Hills and taste your way through the Outer Banks in one location! It’s how this event began over 30 years ago and it is still the event people rave about. Visit each restaurant booth and taste two or three samplings from each. Packed with many seafood and non-seafood choices, the cuisine at the Sysco Foods Chefs Grand Tasting is truly an experience to remember and the participating restaurants absolutely go all out to present their finest and most imaginative cuisine for your enjoyment, as well as impressing the judging panel in hopes to take home one of the prestigious TOB’y awards.
Along with your favorite restaurants, there will be outstanding local craft brew beers and fine wines offered! Enjoy the Bartenders Bubbly Bash (an event within the event) where local bartenders will be mixing up their signature sparkling wine cocktails for you to taste, enjoy, and vote on your favorites by way of cash tips. The cash tips collected will serve as your votes and all proceeds will be donated to the local Beach Food Pantry. Your ticket price includes all-you-care-to-taste beer, wine, bubbly cocktails, and of course amazing food. You will receive a souvenir champagne flute to use during the event and take home with you.
Restaurants will be competing for the 8th Annual TOB’y Awards; Best Booth Presentation, Best In Show, and the two most coveted awards, the Chefs Award and People’s Choice Award. These awards will be announced at the end of the second session, but all attendees will have the opportunity to cast their votes.
The event is split into 2 sessions this year. 1st Session will be from Noon to 2pm; and the 2nd Session will begin at 2:30 and run until 4:30, with the TOB’y Awards presentation after and running until about 5:00. The two large dining rooms will contain 18 showcased restaurants, while the Port O’ Call upper saloon deck will host the Bubbly Bash with about 10 different bubbly cocktails for you to taste and vote (by way of cash) for your favorite. There is some seating in the upper deck area.
