Gourmet food trucks, carts and other stellar street food & market purveyors filled our urban wine village, creating a street-like flow with hot chefs competing for “Best Bites” in multiple categories. Led by Heather Irwin of Bite Club Eats, food writers, bloggers, and other culinary personalities handled the “Best Bites” judging. 10% of all food sales benefitted our 2012 charity partner, the SRJC Shone Farm Foundation. http://www.biteclubeats.com/http://www.biteclubeats.com/http://www.biteclubeats.com/http://www.santarosa.edu/instruction/instructional_departments/agriculture/shone-farm-foundation.phpshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3

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Please Visit Our 2012 Gourmet Street & Market  Chefs

2012 Gourmet Street Food Purveyors & Best Bites Competition

Bite Club Eats Editor

Heather Irwin

Grand Poobah - Best in Show

Awful Falafel, Gabe Nahas

Best Meat

Alma Mendez, La Texanita

Best Fried

Nellie’s Oysters, Nellie Gamez

Most Creative

Bay Laural Culinary, Christopher Greenwald

Best Use of Local Ingredients

Rosso Pizzeria & Wine Bar, John Franchetti

Best Presentation

Street-eatz, Jillian Doorman

And Now, the Winners of the 2012 Best Bites Competition!

Awful Falafel

Judges Comments: “Gabe is the upstart who just killed it at Rootstock...We die.”

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