Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill Fifth Annual “Sauce Boss” Wing Sauce Competition
Winners get cash prizes, free pound of wings every day for a year and their sauce featured on the menu
(Press Release) – Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill announced today that it’s once again seeking the Valley’s best home chef to share their wing sauce recipe and compete for the 2017 title of Half Moon Sauce Boss.
All winners; First Place, Runner Up and People’s Choice, will receive one free pound of wings every day for a year at either Half Moon location. First Place will also receive a $250 cash prize and their sauce will be featured on a future Half Moon menu. The People’s Choice winner will also receive a $100 cash prize and their sauce will be featured on a future Half Moon menu.
The Half Moon Sauce Boss competition will culminate at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 1 in conjunction with the restaurant’s “Bone Out Wing Thursday” where customers can order as many of the restaurant’s award-winning wings they can eat for just $.69 a piece from 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Minimum order is six. Add celery for $1.49. Dine in only.)
Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill’s owner Clay Moizo will narrow down the sauce entries to the top five finalists. The finalists will compete for the title of Half Moon Sauce Boss at Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill, 2121 E Highland Ave. Phoenix.
Each finalist’s wing sauce submission will be sampled and voted on by a panel of local celebrity/VIP judges. The Half Moon Sauce Boss champion will be determined by the celebrity judges combined scores. Scoring will be based on overall flavor, originality and appropriate heat.
Event attendees can order any of the five finalists wings that night for just $.60 a piece, (six piece minimum). The competition is free to the public.
Entry Details:
- Entry Submission-all recipe entries must be emailed as a PDF file to sauceboss@halfmoonsportsgrill.com.
- Entry deadline is 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 18th.
- All recipes must be complete with ingredients and preparation instruction and should yield one gallon of wing sauce. All wing sauce varieties of flavor and heat will be considered.
- The five finalists will release the rights to their wing sauce recipe and must be present for the final competition to be selected the Half Moon Sauce Boss.
ABOUT HALF MOON: Half Moon Sports Grill and Half Moon Windy City Sports Grill are Game Day Central for any sports fans. They’re chock full of HD TVs, state of the art audiovisual system and games on TV with sound every Sunday.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Sunday; kitchen open until midnight daily
Central Phoenix Address: 2121 E. Highland Ave., Phoenix
Phone: 602-977-2700
Moon Valley Address: 288 E. Greenway Parkway, Phoenix
Phone: 602-993-6600
Web: halfmoonsportsgrill.com