The MGM Resorts Recipe Showdown Is Back

May 22, 2015

Back for a second consecutive year, the MGM Resorts International Recipe Showdown is expanding to 16 cities across the U.S. and Canada, and this year it’s open to travel professionals in addition to meeting planners.

The initial showdown was a success with meeting planners in 12 cities dishing up best-kept secret recipes. The first-ever winner of this competition, Melissa Moskal, creative manager at Prime Strategies in Vancouver, Canada, wowed the judges with Melissa’s Marvelous Moussaka.

Winners of each city showdown will be whisked away to Las Vegas in October for the national finals and compete for the honor, prizes and bragging rights of being the 2015 MGM Resorts International Recipe Showdown winner. The 16 finalists will prepare their dishes in front of a live audience.

For those who think they have what it takes and can stand the heat to go head-to-head with fellow meeting planners and travel professionals, they can submit their favorite family recipe by clicking here.

Showdown cities:

Washington DC – June 2
Vancouver, BC – June 9
Minneapolis – June 17
Toronto – June 23
Seattle – July 9
Salt Lake City – August 12
Indianapolis – August 12
Philadelphia – August 13
Boston – August 18
New York City – August 20
Denver – August 20
Los Angeles – August 20
Dallas – August 25
Atlanta – August 27
San Francisco – September 9
Chicago – September 17
FINALS – Las Vegas – October 29

Contest details:

  • Recipes can be any type of dish from appetizer, entrée to dessert served for breakfast, lunch, dinner or late-night.
  • City competitions will be judged by fellow meeting and travel professionals.
  • The top three finalists from each city will have their recipes featured in a recipe book by meeting and travel professionals for meeting and travel professionals.

Click here for the 2014 MGM Resorts International Recipe Showdown Cookbook featuring the top recipes from last year’s competition.

  • First place finalist in each city will be flown to Las Vegas for the national finals on October 29 to compete in a 16-person Cook-Off. Transportation and lodging will be provided by MGM Resorts International.
  • Judges for the finals will be celebrity chefs from MGM Resorts International restaurants.
  • Finals

— 1st Place: All-expense-paid trip to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami; February 25–28, 2016.
— 2nd Place: Three-night stay at an MGM Resorts destination in Las Vegas, airport limo transfer, dinner each night.
— 3rd Place: Two-night stay at an MGM Resorts destination in Las Vegas, airport limo transfer, dinner each night.

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