This year’s Working Waterfront Festival will feature Seafood Throwdowns on both Saturday and Sunday. Chefs Henry Bousquet (Ice Chest) and Mike Melo (M & C Café) who tied in last year’s competition will have a rematch on Saturday with the winner facing challenger Peter Doire (Area Chef for Legal Seafoods).

This year’s Working Waterfront Festival will feature Seafood Throwdowns on both Saturday and Sunday. Chefs Henry Bousquet (Ice Chest) and Mike Melo (M & C Café) who tied in last year’s competition will have a rematch on Saturday with the winner facing challenger Peter Doire (Area Chef for Legal Seafoods).

The chefs will compete to create a winning dish using a surprise seafood ingredient and local produce. Chefs can bring three of their favorite ingredients and once they discover the secret seafood they will be using, they get $25 and 15 minutes to shop the Festival Farmers’ Market for ingredients. A panel of judges including fishermen and food writers will determine the winning dish.

Seafood Throwdowns provide an opportunity to learn more about our local seafood, local fishing fleet and fisheries related issues affecting our ocean, fishing economies and coastal food systems. The event is a collaboration between the Working Waterfront Festival and Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance.