2025 Winners

  • 1st Place: Liberty Kitchen at the Treehouse

    Luis Machuca

    Lobster & Pecorino - caviar and shaved truffle.

  • 2nd Place: Maximo's

    Adrian Torres

    Nixtamalized truffle spoe, huilacoche puree, smoked beef ribs, black truffle mole, and pickled celeriac.

  • 3rd Place: Bloom & Bee at the Post Oak

    Gerardo Camancho

    Black Truffle Foie Gras Bonbon.

  • People's Choice: Soto

    Moto-San

    Truffle Honey Salmon - King salmon sashimi with ume vinaigrette, truffle-infused honey, candied jalapeno, and tempura crema.

  • William Grant & Son's Bartender Competition: Musaafer

    Afzal Kaba

    Milagro blanco fat washed with truffle oil, lapsang souchong cordial, amontillado sherry, saline, imitation tonka mist, and garnished with truffle salt and lapsang souchong jelly.

  • 5Kinokawa

    Billy Kin

    Musashino Summer Roll- shrimp, salmon, tuna, and avocado rolled in rice paper topped off with truffles and caviar. Served with a truffle-infused fish sauce and a Vietnamese Truffle Coffee on the side.

  • A Fare Extraordinaire

    Ryan Bouillet

    Chicken congee, with mushrooms, chicken skin chili crisp, shaved truffles.

  • Amrina in the Woodlands

    Jassi Bindra

    Papdi & Truffle Chaat.

  • Augustine's

    Dominick Lee

    Black Truffle Brioche French Toast, Truffle Madeira Zabione, Truffle Infused Hazelnut Candy.

  • Barcelona Wine Bar

    Thomas Laczynski

    Truffled Cauliflower Gratin Fonduta.

  • Bari Ristorante

    Renato De Pirro

    Olive oil, Parmesan and Black Truffle Gelato.

  • Chef & Rancher

    Austin Simmons

    Wagyu Beef & Truffles.

  • Drake's Hollywood

    Raphael Rogers

    Truffle wagyu dry aged hamachi chefs press.

  • Duchess

    Tim De St. Remy

    Truffle braised short rib served in a crispy risotto scoop, with a porcini mushroom truffle risotto foam, dusted with dehydrated lemon curd and shaved truffle.

  • Fielding's River Oaks

    Brandon Jolley-Samples

    "Lobster In Paris"
    Winter Black Truffle, Maine Lobster French Toast, and Calabrian Chili Lobster Bisque.

  • Flora

    Mate Zorrilla

    Mushroom Truffle Sopecito with cremini and beech mushrooms, epazote, truffled pecorino foam over a corn masa sopecito.

  • Hidden Omakase

    Marcos Juarez

    “Caviar Truffle Crisp” Pecorino truffle tuile, kaluga lemon aioli, and chives.

  • Le Jardinier at MFA

    Felipe Botero

    Black Truffle and Gruyére cheese souffle, mushrooms coulis, and sunchoke chips.

  • Lena's Asian Kitchen

    Lena Trang

    Oyster in Truffle Dashi Beurre Blanc, dashi jelly, chive oil, ginger gel, crispy bonito crumbles, fresh truffle, and edible borage.

  • Leo's River Oaks

    Tim Reading

    Foie Gras & Truffle Ravioli with charred onion and madeira sauce.

  • Killen's Steakhouse

    Luis Lopez

    Smoked prime ny strip with truffle Sabayon.

  • The Marigold Club

    Micaela Victoria

    “Caviar service” is a dessert composed by a truffle cream, blueberry caviar, banana caramel and truffle crunchy.

  • Maven Coffee + Cocktails

    Nico Baizan de Aldecoa

    Truffle and Foie Gras Morel Canelon.

  • McCormick & Schmick's

    Tim Eckard

    PB&J with Black Truffles.

  • Okto

    Yotam Dolev

    Crab and Truffle Cigars.

  • Potente

    Ed Nguyen

    Wild Boar Polpette, Porcini Mushroom, Morel Buerre Blanc, Perigord Black Truffles.

  • Tavola

    Michael Lara

    Fettuccine Ripiene al Tartufo.

  • The Briar Club

    Oscar Juarez

    Black Truffle Custard with a beef consume gel with a wagyu strip lion topped with sorrel.

  • The Kennedy

    Adriana Maldonaldo

    Black truffle potato chip and caviar mozzarella stick.

  • Uchi

    Stephen Conklin

    Buckwheat tarte with white corn, and black truffle.

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