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.
Our Special Bites & Drinks