North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association
Taste, sip, and vote at NC’s top culinary competition—Aug. 4! Experience the Ultimate Culinary Competition Join us on Monday, August 4, 2025, at Bay 7 in Durham for the Grand Finale of NCRLA’s Chef Showdown—North Carolina’s premier culinary and mixology competition. Presented by Got To Be NC, this one-of-a-kind event showcases the state’s top chefs, […]
Entering its eighth exhilarating season, the NCRLA Chef Showdown is North Carolina’s premier statewide culinary and mixology competition. This distinguished event, presented by Got To Be NC, spotlights the exceptional talent of North Carolina’s chefs, pastry chefs, mixologists, and distilleries. Competitors are tasked with creating dishes and drinks that highlight the finest North Carolina proteins, […]
NCRLA’s Chef Showdown is THE can’t-miss culinary & mixologist competition of the year. Presented by Got to be NC Agriculture, 20 chefs & 6 distilleries/mixologists are challenged to use as many local NC ingredients as they can to create a dish and drink to earn them the top titles of NCRLA Chef of the Year, […]
