{"id":1868,"date":"2015-02-24T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-02-24T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:15:57","slug":"2015-santa-cruz-clam-chowder-cook-off-results-including-top-rated-pleasure-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"2015 Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off Results including top-rated Pleasure Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1869\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11008651_10153661747208378_1748038549021477074_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1869\" src=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11008651_10153661747208378_1748038549021477074_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Big winner Derek Rupp &amp; his Pleasure Pizza Eastside Eatery crew and family. Photo credit: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11008651_10153661747208378_1748038549021477074_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11008651_10153661747208378_1748038549021477074_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11008651_10153661747208378_1748038549021477074_o.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big winner Derek Rupp &amp; his Pleasure Pizza East Side Eatery crew and family. Photo credit: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Facebook page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Interested to learn who made the best soup at the 2015 Santa Cruz Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off after reading my <a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1865\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/2015-santa-cruz-clam-chowder-cook-off-and-festival\">preview article<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasurepizzasc.com\/\">Pleasure Pizza Eastside Eatery<\/a>, led by Derek Rupp, was a big winner \u2013 he was awarded 1st place \/ Best Professional by official judges in both Boston and Manhattan categories AND he won the People\u2019s Choice award for Best Professional Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>See below for all results of the 34th annual event, which was held Feb. 21, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top rated by judges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Professional Boston<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Pleasure Pizza East Side Eatery (Derek Rupp) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; Local Harvest Eatery (Denna Myers) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Lou Lou&#8217;s Griddle in the Middle (Gigi Davis ) Monterey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Professional Manhattan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Pleasure Pizza East Side Eatery (Derek Rupp) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; Seascape Resort (Matt Lamendola) Aptos<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Midgley&#8217;s Public House (Mike Midgely) Stockton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Individual Boston<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Alerts (Kenny Simon) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; Santa Cruz Kids Chowder (Tom Rumbaugh) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Onokine (John Ono) Watsonville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Individual Manhattan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Clam Halen (Brad Bishop) Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; Wine w\/Swine (Mark Brown) San Jose<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Dragon Mama&#8217;s Portuguese Red (Michele Hartmangruber) Fremont<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Original Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Clam Rock (Christopher Hirz) Gilroy<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; Cucina Bambini (Shelly Ballard) San Jose<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Sir Clamalot (Barbara Defries) San Pablo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>People\u2019s Choice (Voted #1 by the Public)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual Boston \u2013 4 Men &amp; A Clam (Wayne Locke) Scotts Valley<\/li>\n<li>Professional Boston \u2013 Lou Lou\u2019s Griddle in the Middle (Gigi Davis) Monterey<\/li>\n<li>Individual Manhattan \u2013 Grandma\u2019s Clam Diggers, Janine Ponce, Aptos<\/li>\n<li>Professional Manhattan \u2013 Pleasure Pizza East Side Eatery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Tasted Chowders<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st &#8211; Rosie&#8217;s Clam &amp; Get It (Kitty Dixon) Soquel<\/li>\n<li>2nd &#8211; 4 Men &amp; A Clam<\/li>\n<li>3rd &#8211; Silence of the Clams (Brian Edwards) Campbell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/santacruzfoodie\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/santacruzfoodie\">@santacruzfoodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested to learn who made the best soup at the 2015 Santa Cruz Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-Off after reading my preview article? Pleasure Pizza Eastside Eatery, led by Derek Rupp, was a big winner \u2013 he was awarded 1st place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1868\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,33,80,315],"tags":[443,235,173,734,119,7,366,446,281],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits","category-cooking-chefs","category-events","category-food-food-news","category-restaurant-news-2","tag-capitola-restaurants","tag-family-friendly","tag-kids","tag-pleasure-pizza-east-side-eatery","tag-restaurant-news","tag-santa-cruz","tag-santa-cruz-boardwalk","tag-santa-cruz-clam-chowder-cook-off","tag-santa-cruz-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}