We are giving away a pair of general admission tickets ($250 value) to the Cochon 555 Seattle St. Patrick’s Day event! It is a “one-of-a-kind traveling culinary competition and tasting event”, with top regional chefs, wine, BBQ, desserts, and more. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed on Friday, March 15th.
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From our partners at Cochon555:
Cochon 555 5th Anniversary Tour
March 17, 2013 | 4 p.m. (VIP); 5 p.m. (GA)
Cedarbrook Lodge
18525 36th Avenue South, Seattle
Tickets: $125 (GA) | $200 (VIP) | www.cochon555.com
2013 marks a culinary milestone: The fifth anniversary of Cochon 555, a one-of-a-kind traveling culinary competition and tasting event created to promote sustainable farming of heritage breed pigs. Arriving at the quintessentially Northwest Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle on Sunday, March 17, the pork-centric tour brings together – for the first time ever – SIX chefs, five pigs and five wineries for a Best of the Pacific Northwest in a St. Patrick’s Day showdown.
What: Each Cochon 555 event challenges five local chefs (in this exciting case SIX) to prepare a menu created from the entirety of heritage breed pigs for an audience of pork-loving epicureans and celebrated judges. The competing chefs are Jason Franey – Canlis, Johnathan Sundstrom – Lark, Jason Barwikowski – Woodsman Tavern, Joshua Henderson – Skillet, Rachel Yang / Seif Chirchi –Joule/Revel, and Shane Ryan – Matt’s in the Market.
Guests will be treated to an epic pork feast alongside wines from five small family-owned wineries including Elk Cove Vineyards, McCrea Cellars, Syncline, Buty Winery and Simi Winery plus special tastings from celebrated food and beverage producers, including a special pairing of Cypress Grove Chevre and Anchor Brewing – of course there will also be green beer! Twenty judges and 400 guests help decide the winning chef, who is crowned the Prince (or Princess) of Porc and will compete against other regional winners at the finale Grand Cochon event at the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen on Sunday, June 16.
Also included in the evening is a preview of the new Heritage BBQ event in which Roy Breiman and Mark Bodinet of Copperleaf Restaurant will roll out family meal – an additional whole pig cooked barbecue-style immediately preceding the awards.
VIP guests will experience amazing grower Champagnes from Fat Cork, Black River Caviar as well as new tour additions for 2013, including the launch of the “Punch Kings” cocktail competition featuring Breckenridge Bourbon and six local bartenders, the all-new Tartare Bar, sustainable oysters as well as reserve wine and spirits.
To celebrate five years, Cochon 555 is announcing five bourbons in addition to five family wineries and five chefs cooking five pigs. All attendees will get samples of Templeton Rye, Breckenridge Bourbon, High West, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses in addition to the Perfect Manhattan Bar showcasing Luxardo and Eagle Rare. New to 2013 is also the Chupito/Mezcal Bar, a tasting experience featuring Ilegal, Mezcales de Leyenda, Fidencio and Pierde Almas. The infamous Craft Cheese Bar sees a facelift featuring a local cheesemonger, Cypress Grove Chevre, Vermont Butter & Cheese, Spring Brook Farm, exclusive blue cheeses from Rogue Creamery, and favorites from Kerrygold. Everyone can commemorate the experience by visiting the City Eats photo booth and voting for the best bite of the day and a sip of Pig’s Nose Scotch.
The fun continues with a butcher demonstration from Tracy Smaciarz from Heritage Meats and a raffle to benefit the student volunteers, ice-cold brews, Champagne toast, award ceremony, Fernet Branca digestifs, pork-spiked desserts, and of course, the after party will immediately following at Copperleaf Restaurant with food and drink specials each available for $5.55.
Stay: The award-winning Cedarbrook Lodge has partnered with Cochon 555 creating the ultimate Sleep & Swine packages for guests looking to make a weekend of it. Packages range in price and amenities from the Cochon Hogs & Kisses – including a single night’s stay with a special ticket price for the Cochon 555 event (starting at $349) – to the Cochon Boss Hog – including a two night stay complete with a behind the scenes dinner at Copperleaf Restaurant and VIP admission to Cochon 555 (starting at $549).
Several other package options are available via www.cedarbrooklodge.com.
*Rates quoted above are double occupancy and do not include applicable taxes or gratuities.
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Food lover’s paradise. This event sounds amazing. I want to cook me up some bacon just reading about it!
Perfect timing, my weigh in with the doc is on the 14th.
My stomach is grumbling just reading about this!
I’m a foodie and I’ve always wanted to attend an event like this. Sounds like it would be such an incredible experience!
I would like to attend because I have never properly celebrated St. Patty’s day and my best friend is Irish!!!!
OMG I would so love to win this
YUM!
Because my father was killed by a wild boar, and I want some delicious revenge – the best wine comes from crushed sour grapes.
What dreams are made of!
I have honestly dreamed about attending this event! But it is a little beyond my price point right now. Make my dream come true!!
This sounds awesome. I’d love to go.
Sounds pretty good. I like pork and I like trying new things, so this seems like something I could really enjoy.
this little piggy drank Whiskey
this little piggy drank Beer
this little piggy drank Champagne
this little piggy drank none:-(
but this little piggy eat and drank everything at the Cochon 555 5th Anniversary Tour…..
the end!
Pick this little piggy
I’ve been looking for something fun to do while I’m here!
I love to cook and always looking for inspitation. Sounds like a lot of fun and very yummy too!
To be the Portland Ambassador, a position to dress well for. Maybe a costume, approved by the creators of this contest. I want to win so I can represent this great city of ours.
This sounds amazing! Nothing beats pork and wine!
Sounds like a great way to promote and experience heritage breed pigs. I hope more consumers, stores and restaurants learn how much better pork can be than using factory animals.
I’d love to go to this!
I would absolutely love to attend a foodie event. I have recently moved from Portland and my bofriend and I are foodies getting to know Seattle!
Pig is my favorite meat. I would love to attend this.
I love to eat. Especially pork. This would be so much fun. I have a cool hat picked out already for St Pattys day. Magically delicious.
I’m really hungry, and tired of eating at Taco Bell.
AMAZING. That is all. I would love to attend and celebrate St. Patty’s day in style with my Irish man. Thank you!
Would love to go.and learn some new dishes.
Oh wow! I love pork and if I won, I’d fast to ensure I could pig out.
Oh how I squueeeled with delight when I discovered this unique culinary adventure! From chopped and iron chef to top chef, hubby and I are utterly fascinated with the culinary world… two foodies in the moody, to sip and savor something winey to something swiney!
THIS would be several dreams wrapped up and tied with a bow – several of my fave chefs with one of my fave food groups (pork!) at one of the loveliest places in the PNW! PLEASE let me be lucky!
I have a friend coming in from Pittsburgh this weekend would be awesome!
I am just getting into a variety of blogging and really want to get into event and food blogging. This would be a great way to get into it. Sounds delicious too!
This sounds wonderful, pork and bourbon and pork and I heard Bourbon and Five chefs… What a blast, I would love to join the fun.
I want to win because I looovvvveeee pork! Champagne and bourbon are great too!
I would <3 to be able to attend this event!
It'd make me forget all about having my original St Pat's plans of doing the dash destroyed due to a random gravity check that has resulted in the most expensive pair of shoes I own & it's only half a pair!
I want to party with these pigs.
It would be amazing to win.
I want to win for my wife.
This is the best motivation I can think of to start working out for the summer! Either way there will definitely be no regrets and a happy tummy.
Texas transplant here, interested to check out what the region has to offer! Would love to take this BBQ challenge!
Swooning over the lineup of local chefs. That’s a lot of talent for one room!
Pork, wine, AND bourbon?? I’m ecstatic at the prospect!
I would like to win as this is on my bucket list and I can think of no better way to spend St. Patrick’s day that with the brotherhood of the pork.
Sláinte chugat.
My birthday is this week, what better way to celebrate than with an amazing local chef challenge and great food and drink!
I was raised on an Irish culinary palette and I make a mean Irish soda bread. I also happen to know that Irish sausages are the BEST in the world! You can only get them at the Ballard market. Lived in Ireland for several years – I know what’s up! Thanks for the chance. Erin go Bragh! Orla
Pork is a fundamental food group, the staff of life. For example, the only way to improve bacon is to add more bacon. Heritage pork is superb; prepared by these fabulous chefs it will be a religious experience. I will worship at the altar of pork on this porky Sabbath.
This event sounds wonderfully yummy. I would love to try great food.
I love food, and I have never had the opportunity to attend something like this! Would love to go!
Um this would be a dream! I love to cook and what a better way of learning some new tricks but tasting them first hand!! Yum-o
The most Porktastic event around!! Can’t wait to get these all star chefs in the same room and watch them all get piggy wit it!
Yummm!!
I’ve been unemployed for seven months and this would be a nice way to treat myself and a friend, since I haven’t been able to do so in months.
I would love to win tickets for my husband and his brother who is visiting from London this week. Their dream is to open a restaurant together some day and what a treat to send them to this incredibel event.
And, this may soften the blow that my brother-in-law traveled half way around the world for a week of snowboarding and it’s pouring with rain up on the mountain.
Thanks for the chance to give them a day they won’t soon forget!
It might be too fancy but sounds fantastic!
mmmmm pork-a-licious!
My mouth is watering and my sweethearts would be too if he saw this post! We’d love to experience this and have a date night that doesnt include either of us cooking or doing the dishes. This sounds like an experience we’d talk about for a long time!
This would be the perfect way to celebrate my Husbands return from Afghanistan and Anniversary; a night away from our twins :) Great food, great drinks, meet new people ^_*
May the luck of the Irish be with me!!!
Food. Wine. Saint Patrick’s Day. These are a few of my favorite things.
I would like to get in on this feast!
My husband & I would love to attend this event. We love Revel/Joule & it would be nice to cheer for our fave chefs.
I love food and this sounds amazing. I’d either take my mom (also a foodie) or my friend, Helen.
I would love to win these as a surprise for my BF, and because all things made from pig are yummy!
This would be a dream for my tastebuds! Fingers crossed!
What could be better than good Irish food? Would love to win and celebrate the end of the college quarter with tickets!
Delectable! My husband and I are bonafide foodies!!
Live, in Seatlle, a skillet thrown down!
One little piggy went to market five went in my tummy!