Thank you for attending the 9th annual Chili Bowl! We will see you again next year. View 2015 Golden Ladle winner.

Milwaukee's 9th annual Chili Bowl sponsored by Miller Lite, returns to Potawatomi Hotel & Casino's spacious Event Center Sunday, February 8, 2015 from 12pm-6pm.

More than 35 area restaurants will compete for Milwaukee's best, sampling more than 60 varieties of chili, but only one will leave with the Golden Ladle award.

Reserve your tasting ticket and you'll be able to sample traditional and spicy chili, along with specialty chili like chicken, lamb, brisket, sweet potato, bratwurst, plus a large selection of vegetarian chili.

So, whether your temptation is spicy, vegetarian, or traditional chili, there is something for everyone.

Participating Restaurants:
(Restaurant menus subject to change without notice)

• Mulligan’s Irish Pub and Grill: Award-winning traditional beef and pork loin chili and its Award-winning smoked Poblano and white bean vegetarian chili.

• O Lydia's Bar & Grill: Garlic Parmesan white chili made with shredded chicken and a Spicy chili made with hot ground pork, red chili beans and black beans.

• Centro Cafe: Serving Spicy white bean and chicken chili and a Vegan chili

• St Francis Brewery & Restaurant: A white bean and chicken chili flavored with delicious sour cream, cumin, garlic and basil.

• Dopp's Bar & Grill: A Traditional and a Chicken Chili

• Karma Bar and Grill: Green Chorizo Chicken Chili and Traditional: Black Bean and Beef Chili

• Trysting Place Pub: (Traditional in 3 different heats, mild, spicy, and OMG!!) -

• Artisan 179: A Vegetarian Beluga Lentil Chili - Vegetable chili, black lentils, sour cream and a House Made Chorizo and Black Bean Chili- Homemade chorizo, black beans, pickled red onions, avocado crema, cilantro

• Saz's State House: 4-Meat Chili,
  featuring: Saz's Famous BBQ Pulled Pork, 12-Hour Smoked Beef Brisket, Smoked Andouille Sausage, Ground Beef, Black Beans, Southwest Seasonings

• Tres Locos: Serving a Traditional (Go Big or Go Home Chili) with Grilled steak, Ground hamburger, Grilled peaches and fire-roasted peppers and vegetables. Also serving a Alligator Chili with Grilled alligator, Black beans, Fire roasted onions, Fire roasted green and red peppers, Corn, Mangoes, Habaneros, and dried chilis

• Red Rock Saloon: Serving Award Winning Authentic Texas Red Chili: Bourbon, beer, bacon and beef.

• McGillyCuddy's Bar & Grill: A traditional chili infused with Guinness for some Irish flare; a sweet and savory chili, much like you'd expect from the good ole Midwest!

• Jackson's Blue Ribbon Pub: Traditional Chili: includes filet, ground chuck & andoullie sausage. It is topped with onions, our famous cheese curds, a dollop of sour cream and garnished with sour dough toast.

• Big Daddy's Brew and Que: A House smoked meat chili, with Brisket, Pork and other Big Daddy’s meats!

• Water Street Brewery: CHILI - "FRITO PIE CHILI" - GUAJILLO CHILI WITH STONE CREEK COFFEE RUBBED SMOKED BRISKET WITH FRITOS AND FRESH WI CHEESE CURDS.

• Ale Asylum Riverhouse: TRADITIONAL: Bobby's 3-Time Award Winning Texas-Syle Chili w Strauss ground beef & brisket, pasilla & guajillo peppers - garnished w tomatillo-avocado relish & queso fresco. (gluten free) ALSO SERVING A VEGETARIAN: Ground Mushroom "Chorizo Spiced" Chili w sweet potatoes, poblanos peppers & black beans - garnished with tomatillo-avocado relish (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free)

• Menomonee Valley Food Court 14- Pepper Buffalo Cactus Chili topped with crushed corn nuts. A blend of 14 different dry, ground, and fresh peppers with ground bison and fresh Nopales cactus.

• The Fire Pit Sports Bar & Grill - Smoked Beef Brisket Chili Served in a Fry Bread Bowl. Topped with “Carolina Reaper Dust” (Ground Pork Skin and pure Carolina Reaper powder)

• Braise Restaurant: White Bean & Pork Chili with Rainbow Cornmeal Croutons.

• Bootz Saloon and Grill: Serving a BBQ, Beef, Pork and Brisket Chili (Traditional or Spicy)

• Who's On Third: Serving Traditional Chili served with fresh Usinger’s brats and grass-fed beef. Slow cooked in Founder’s Porter and seasoned vegetables. Also serving a Spicy chili: Slow cooked in Jack Daniel’s whiskey and Trinidad Scorpion Peppers served with seasoned vegetables, spicy sausage and grass-fed beef.

• Old German Beer Hall: Serving its Award-winning 3-brat dark beer chili using our own OGBH brat (made with apple wood bacon and Hofbrau Dunkel beer), Weissgerber smoked brat, and coarse ground brat (a regular Usinger brat)

• Burke's Lakeside: Traditional and Most Unqiue: The Drunken Jerk: Marinated grilled pork braised in Captain Morgan jerk sauce with red beans

• Cafe Lulu: Vegetarian Chili: 3 bean vegetarian chili, with fried tortilla strips and a cilantro lime creama as garnish.
• Irene's Catering Services: Traditional Chili and a Vegetarian Chili.

• Ugly's: Traditional and Spicy: Traditional style steak-cut Sirloin chili with a blend of peppers herbs and spices w a medley of red and black beans. and Spicy ground beef chili and brown sugar chili with a blend of vegetables, peppers three different beans and love.

• Stack'd Burger Bar Traditional: White bean and chicken with green chilis

• The Pasta Tree: Serving an Italian Vegetarian Chili: Butternut Squash, Kale,Cannellini Beans,Red Chilis,Parmesan Reggiano and a Seafood Chili: Assorted seafood,scallops,shrimp,calamari clams,beans.

• Ride Entertainment Group (Representing Tally Ho Pub & Grill, Madam Belle's Silver Dollar Saloon, Bottoms Up, Old Town Inn, Von Rothenburg Bier Stube) Serving Milwaukee Harley-Davidson's American Classic Beef Chili, a Traditional chili

• Superior Culinary Center with Lisa Keefer from Puddle Jumpers: Unique & Spicy. Smokey Green chili topped with cheese & sweet corn bread
• Wild Flour Bakery - Serving a Traditional chili
• Simmer Milwaukee: Spicy Simmer Chili - a Texas red chili with chunks of beef and pork and smoky-spicy base.

• Showtime Bar & Grill Serving a Ttraditional chili with 3 beefs, beans and veggies and also a Spicy/hot chili with an array of spices, seasonings, and meats

• and more...

Attention restaurants, bars, and catering companies!  Reserve your spot in 2016 Chili Bowl!
Fill out the form below, e-mail or call  MIlwaukeeFood.com at 414-687-5365 to save a spot.


Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: 
Please  contact Andrew Swofford via e-mail andrew@milwaukeefood.com  or by phone at 414-687-5365. 


Please fill out the form below to receive information on competing at 2016 Chili Bowl:

What's included
 with ticket?
Each Chili Bowl ticket includes EIGHT (8) 3oz chili cup samples ... that's about 1.5 lb. of chili! 

WANT TWO MORE CHILI SAMPLES?
Donate two non-perishable canned goods to the Hunger Task Force and we'll award you with two more cups of chili goodness. Maximum TWO free additional samples per event ticket.

Please note: All tickets ordered on or after Wed, Feb 4 at 2:30pm will be available for pick-up at the event will call booth anytime after 11:30am on Sun, Feb 8. 

All tickets ordered online before this date were mailed via USPS. 

Guests will not be permitted to enter chili tasting halls until 12pm.

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Event Details:
Sunday, Februay 8, 2015, 12pm-6pm

Potawatomi  Hotel & Casino
1721 West Canal Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233 (Map)

• Chili tasting halls open at 12pm
• Will Call booth opens at 11:30am
• Free Parking
• Non-smoking in the event area.  
• Children 17 and younger are welcome at the Chili Bowl with legal guardian present. Must be  21 or older to enter casino floor. 

Questions?
Please e-mail or call us at 414-687-5365

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