NCRLA Chef Showdown

We are loving the fact that everyone is still talking about all the 2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Grand Finale wins and all the delicious dishes and drinks our finalists created!! Thanks to our supporters and sponsors at The Dairy Alliance for this post!

Chefs in the news!!
Thanks to CBS 17 for sharing the word on our 2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Grand Finale and the evening’s top winners!

Triangle chefs, mixologists among winners of 2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Some Triangle chefs and mixologists were recognized Monday night among the winners of the ninth annual North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association’s Chef Showdown.

So great to have The Dairy Alliance as one of our longtime sponsors and supporters!

We love all our chefs and mixologists are doing to feature local NC dairy products and dairy farmers on their competition dishes and desserts and in their competition cocktails and mocktails!!

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2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Awards Top Honors The North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association (NCRLA) hosted its ninth Chef Showdown on August 4, 2025. It has named its 2025 winners.

NCRLA Chef Showdown 2025 finalists in the news!!!
Great article on Wilkes County native, our NCRLA Mixologist of the Year, Sarah McCabe of The Longleaf Hotel. In the The Wilkes Record

https://thewilkesrecord.com/ferguson-news-and-the-winner-is%E2%80%A6-p10694-149.htm

Our good friends, sponsors and supporters at The Dairy Alliance highlight all four of our 2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Undeniably Dairy Award Winners in this post on their website!

Looking good Chef Bobby McFarland Glasshouse Kitchen , winner of The Dairy Alliance Award for best Savory Dish; Chef Michael A Beers, CEC, CCA , River Run Country Club, winner of The Dairy Alliance award for best dessert; and Mixologist Natalie Takacs of EOD Distillery, winner of The Dairy Alliance Award for Best Mocktail and The Dairy Alliance Award for Best Cocktail!!

Read the article and then make plans to go see the chefs and mixologist and taste for yourself!
All great reasons to Visit North Carolina, Discover Durham, and Visit Wilmington, NC and Beaches

North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association
N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

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2025 NCRLA Chef Showdown Undeniably Dairy Awards Announced The North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association (NCRLA) hosted its ninth Chef Showdown on August 4, 2025. Four “Undeniably Dairy Awards” presented by The Dairy Alliance were awarded to those who showcased the best use of dairy products.