RULES: BEST VEGAN CHEESESTEAK IN PHILLY
Any food retailer in the Philadelphia metropolitan area that serves a vegan cheesesteak is eligible to be nominated, but the sandwich must be a regular menu item as of March 1, 2014. The sandwich must contain zero animal-based ingredients.
NOMINATION VOTES
Any food retailer in the Philadelphia metropolitan area that serves a vegan cheesesteak is eligible to be nominated, but the sandwich must be a regular menu item as of March 1, 2014. The sandwich must contain zero animal-based ingredients.
Everyone is eligible to nominate their favorite, via:
Email:
Send the retailer’s name and location to VforVeg@phillynews.com.
Twitter:
Tweet the name and location with the hashtag #vegancheesesteak.
Coupon:
Mail in the coupon published with the “V for Veg” column in the Daily News on Feb. 20 and March 6.
Comments:
Add the name and location in the comments thread for the nominations blog post on the V for Vegan blog at philly.com.
Only one nomination will be counted for any single name, any single Twitter account, any single email address or any single philly.com username.
Nominations will be tallied and recorded on the V for Vegan blog at philly.com. The count will be updated at least once every 12 hours.
One tweet, email, coupon or comment will be chosen at random on March 13 to win the sweepstakes prize, a dinner for two at Sprig and Vine restaurant in New Hope. The winner will be invited to the final judging event March 18. Employees of Interstate General Media and their family members are ineligible for this prize.
The nomination period is Feb. 20 to midnight on March 11. On March 13, the three finalists with the most overall nominations will be announced in the “V for Veg” column in the Daily News.
Each finalist will agree to submit two vegan sandwiches for the judging event. In case of non-agreement, the nominee with the next-highest number of votes will take that finalist’s spot.
On March 13 an online poll will launch on Philly.com, asking site users to vote among the three finalists. The winner of this poll, as of noon on March 18, will be named the “People’s Choice” winner for the contest.
FINAL JUDGING
The winner will be chosen from among the three finalists in a blind taste test at Grindcore House Café, 1515 S. 4th Street, on Tuesday, March 18 at 3 p.m. Judges are: Jonathan Bagot, Takia McClendon, Frank Olivieri Jr., and Christina Pirello.
Each judge will pick a first, 2nd and 3rd place winner, and their votes will be tallied to pick the final winners. In the case of a tie, the prize will go to whoever had the higher number of People’s Choice votes.
Winners will be announced in the March 20 “V for Veg” column in the Daily News.