Sunday Night Chef Fight

After winning the inaugural North County Sunday Night Chef Fight in March over Chef Joey Maggiore by one of the closest margins in Chef Fight history, Chef Kurtis Habecker will step into the culinary ring once again to defend his title against a brand-new challenger at the next North San Diego County Sunday Night Chef Fight cooking competition, happening live on Sunday, June 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the Standards of Excellence showroom in San Marcos.

Chef Kurtis Habecker, Chef de Cuisine of the Argyle Steakhouse at the in Carlsbad, will put his title on the line against Chef Eugenio Martignago, Executive Corporate Chef of & in Carlsbad, in this high-stakes live culinary battle where the live audience gets to serve as judge, jury, and taste-cutioner.

Each Sunday Night Chef Fight is a fast-paced, no-holds-barred culinary showdown similar to popular cooking competition shows on TV, but with a few extra twists thrown in. Before each event, both chefs are given three base ingredients – a protein, vegetable, and grain/starch/dairy item – that must be included in their creations, a shopping allowance, and a week to plan and prep their dishes for the sixty members of the audience jury. Then, during the Sunday Night Chef Fight itself, each chef and his or her sous-chef will have only 30 minutes to cook and finish samples of each dish for the entire audience as well as incorporate a “mystery ingredient” into the mix while host Chris Kern peppers him or her with questions.

The audience then gets to sample each dish, rates each chef’s creations in three categories, the totals are tallied, and one chef receives the Sunday Night Chef Fight trophy, the title of “Champion Chef of North County,” and the opportunity to defend his or her title against a new local chef challenger at the next Sunday Night Chef Fight, to be held on September 25th at Standards of Excellence in San Marcos.

Each Chef Fight will also include as an “undercard” bout Vino Vidi Vici, a blind wine tasting competition in which all audience members taste three themed but unlabeled wines, select a favorite, and then have the name and varietal of each bottle revealed over the course of the Chef Fight.

Tickets are currently on sale for the June 5 North County Sunday Night Chef Fight. The Standards of Excellence showroom is located at 694 Rancheros Drive just off Highway 78 in San Marcos.

General Seating is $50 per person, which includes the competition, samples of both chef’s creations, and one pour of each Vino Vidi Vici wine. A limited number of VIP Front Row seating tickets are also available for $75 per person, which includes the best seating in the house for the Chef Fight, priority service, larger portions of each chef’s creations, and two pours of each Vino Vidi Vici wine.

To purchase tickets and for more information on Sunday Night Chef Fights, visit SundayNightChefFights.com or e-mail nicky@cheffights.com.