Spenger’s Announces 9th Annual Crabby Chefs Seafood Festival & Benefit 16th Annual Shuck & Swallow Challenge & Benefit

Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto has announced their 9th annual Crabby Chefs Seafood Festival, this year benefiting the Berkeley Cal Recreational Sports Development Fund’s Camp Scholarship Program. The event will be held on Sunday, October 11th from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.

The festival includes a colorful “Iron Chef” style culinary competition that culminates with a Crabby Chef being chosen, plus, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., outdoor food booths will be selling cooked crab, crab cakes, clam chowder and other seafood delights, along with beer, wine and soft drinks, with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Cal Recreational Sports Development Fund’s Camp Scholarship Program. There will also be musical entertainment. The culinary competition is free, open for public viewing and will begin at 2:00 p.m.

Also on site for the festivities will be the Pacific Seafood “roadshow,” a mobile retail fish and shellfish store in the form of an 18 wheeler walk-in truck parked adjacent to the event staging area. The public can purchase the freshest seafood available in the Bay Area for preparation at home.

Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto, established in 1890, is located at 1919 Fourth Street in Berkeley, California, just off of I-80. For more information on the Crabby Chef Challenge and Benefit, call Spenger’s at (510) 845-7771.

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About the beneficiary: The Cal Recreational Sports Development Fund is the fundraising program for Cal Recreational Sports. Donations to the fund will help provide camp scholarships, via a Camp Scholarship Program, to families with economic challenges. Since the program was launched in 2002, the Camp Scholarship Program has helped provide over 300 weeks of camp scholarships to kids living in the East Bay.

McCormick & Kuleto’s Announces 16th Annual
Shuck & Swallow Challenge
Benefiting the Marine Mammal Center

McCormick & Kuleto’s Seafood Restaurant has announced their 16th annual Shuck & Swallow Oyster Challenge, with an oyster and wine pairing benefit event immediately following the competition, to be held on Tuesday, October 6th.

The oyster and wine pairing will benefit The Marine Mammal Center and will be held at McCormick & Kuleto’s Seafood Restaurant at 900 North Point in San Francisco. The pairing will run from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are $30.00 per person with the net proceeds being donated to The Marine Mammal Center.

The oyster competition involves approximately a dozen teams, each consisting of two members from various Bay Area restaurants, competing to shuck and eat as many oysters as possible in 10 minutes. The current record is just under 200. Viewing the competition is free and begins at 5:00 p.m.

The judges’ panel will include members of The Marine Mammal Center. Bay Area radio personality Sterling James will be returning for the twelfth year in a row as this year’s Master of Ceremonies. Event co-sponsors include Ghirardelli Square.

For more information on the Shuck & Swallow Oyster Challenge and the oyster and wine pairing benefit, call McCormick & Kuleto’s at (415) 929-1730 or (415) 929-8374.