Just $39.00 per guest (plus tax, tip & beverage)

Join us each Tuesday and Wednesday, February - March!

Challenges will begin at 6:30pm at Crippen's Country Inn & Restaurant in Blowing Rock. 

Competitions co-hosted by Dionysus Wine Distributers.  Seating is limited so make your reservations now.

The Dates:

The secret ingredient will not be revealed until the day of each event, that way the guests will not be able to know what their favorite chef is cooking. We want each restaurant's guests to come and support their chefs, but we don't want it to be a popularity contest. They are limited to only the ingredients provided, which are all raw products. Each preliminary round will be supplied with the same pantry.

Dining guests will be given a scoring sheet with the same guidelines a food critic goes by.  Jimmy Crippen will give everybody a crash course on how to be a food critic. As a matter of fact, the sheet has been created by John Batchelor, the Greensboro News and Record's Food critic of more than 30 years.  Batchelor is the founding Judge of the Fire On The Rock Chef's Challenge.

Guests will not know whose dish is whose when they are tasting them.  Challenges have been randomly drawn and will be judged equally, regardless of their home restaurant's style. Winner of each battle goes on to compete in the next round of preliminaries, until the final four are determined. Those four will compete on the Main Stage at the Blue Ridge Wine & Food Festival.

Preliminary rounds will feature six courses, three from each chef. Price is $39.00 per guest, excluding beverage, tax, and gratuity. To make a reservation, call Crippen's at 828.295.3487 or click below to reserve online.