The 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational takes place on Saturday, April 25th in downtown Los Angeles. Here are the GCI rules and registration is now open.
The Grilled Cheese Invitational (GCI) is the largest, craziest, and most exciting Grilled Cheese cooking contest in the country and is the best thing to happen to sliced cheese since sliced bread! The GCI promotes an almost scary pursuit of perfection in a Grilled Cheese Sammich and allows for amateur and professional chefs to compete side-by-side in the hopes of becoming a true Grilled Cheese Champion.
The event was created by Tim Walker in 2003, in private artist loft in Downtown Los Angeles as a competition between friends. Since then, the Invitational has grown into a national movement dedicated to perfecting the art of grilled cheese, with thousands of cheese fiends and regional competitions across the country.
See Previously: Photos of The NorCal Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational
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This was one of the most poorly organized, disappointing events I’ve been to in some time.
1) The only food you could get was a cold corner of a grilled cheese sandwich from Kraft
2) There was ONE vendor outside SELLING grilled cheese sandwiches. OUTSIDE the event. With a 30 minute line.
3) There were NO signs explaining any of this.
And if you wanted to WATCH the cooking, the line was six deep to even see. Did NOBODY think to put it the action on platforms like in other public cooking events?
When I talked to some staff in t-shirts on the way out, what I got was “yeah we sold all our tickets earlier” and then not much else. So, to recap: you have NO food vendors IN the event. There were not enough tickets to give a TENTH of everyone who showed up more than a 1/4 kraft sandwich. And the communication was so bad that there was no way to figure any of this out until you’d been majorly disappointed by the whole thing.
Seriously, great idea but with the execution of the mentally disabled. Way to screw it up guys.