Join us for the next Worcester's Best Chef Competition at Mechanics Hall on Sunday, January 29, 2012!

The Worcester’s Best Chef charitable culinary competition is the premier culinary event throughout Central New England and boasts the most exclusive, creative, & finest epicurean masterpieces to be found anywhere.

Come and vote your palate in the People’s Choice competition, taste through selections from nine prestigious wineries & craft beer brewers, relax at the hands of message therapy professionals. Experience the thrill o f the live competition with nationally-acclaimed culinary celebrities, including judges Chef Barry E. Sexton from Food Network’s Dinner Impossible and Chef Alina Eisenhauer from Worcester's Sweet Pastry Shop and Wine Bar and a featured Chef on Food Network's Chopped.

Buy your VIP ticket now and have a relaxing hour strolling through and interacting with chefs one-to-one, discovering their signature dishes and coveted culinary secrets from 5pm until 6pm before the event opens to the general public. Get quality face-time with our host, Billy Costa from TV Diner and co-emcees Jen and Steve from the WXLO Morning Show, experience VIP-only wines from a very exclusive California winery and join  Sir Jeremy Bell in an interactive Rum & Revolution exhibition live - all just for you!

Meet Ambrose Gosling, (1787 – 1857) - first generation of the family that still own Goslings Rum out of Bermuda. With his manager John Till, they will explain why the Rum Punch was the official drink of the founding fathers, and explain the laborious way of making it in a song written by Ben Franklin and irreverently set to the 100th psalm!

Then let them bring you up to modern times and the simple way of making this historic drink by adding Goslings Black Seal Rum to a can of delicious Goslings ginger beer (made right here in Worcester by Polar Beverages!)

Ambrose Gosling and his partner will sing songs and play colonial music on fiddles, citterns and fife and drum.