Chowda' Champs Held at the Custom House

New London Maritime Society announces the 3rd Annual Chowda' Fest & Silent Auction , 2011 Chowda' Fest Champ is Captain's Pizza, which won in two categories! This year, we had chowder tasters rate the chowders in a variety of ways and, although it wasn't our intention, each of the six restaurants won in at least one category!

best overall & best non-clam chowda' Captain's Pizza

best clear chowda' Captain Scott's

best traditional chowda' a tie Chaplin's & Illiano's Trattoria

best non-traditional chowda' East Coast Catering

best cream chowda' Filomena's

The Custom House Maritime Museum would like to thank the six restaurants contributing to the day for making the 3rd Annual Chowda' Fest & SIlent Auction such a succulent success. This event would not be possible without the support of the neighborhood. In addition to our six restaurants, we also had our donors to the silent auction (the following list includes donors to last week's Make Mine Wine Waterford Rotary event): Blissworks Yoga, the Connecticut Historical Society, Caruso Music, Cross Sound Ferry, Lyman Allyn Museum, Muddy Waters, Mystic Seaport, Mystic Whaler, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Montville Veterans of Foreign Wars, New London County Historical Society. Pinc!, SailFest, Stonington Historical Society, Studio 33, The Day.

The annual Chowda' Fest is a Fundraiser for the Custom House Maritime Museum -- New London Maritime Society. For more information about Chowda' Fest or the Custom House Maritime Museum, please call 860-447-2501 or visit the website at nlmaritimesociety.org.

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