Dirty Dan Days on Sunday - April 2009 Photo Gallery

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The Chuckanut Chowder Cookoff and the world's only Piano Race are the agenda for the second day of our festival. Perfect blue skies, temperatures almost up to 60 and warm sun made it a perfect day.

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Colophon Cafe Chowder entry. Sunday is the Chuckanut Chowder Cookoff. This year, 17 restaurants and caterers entered. We think we have a photo of each here.

Chef Alex Catering. The hottest chowder and really good.

Lori, the owner of Book Fare - located on the second floor of Village Books.

Boundary Bay Brewery

Poppe's Bistro & Lounge at the Fairhaven Lakeway Inn.

The Web Locker from the Squalicum Harbor waterfront.

The Big Fat Fish restaurant

Edison Cafe, our neighbors about 15 miles south of Fairhaven. A great cafe in a very nice and very small town. Owner Lisa is serving.

Chuckanut Brewery - from downtown Bellingham

Haggen Market Street Catering

Ciao Thyme

Bayou on Bay from downtown Bellingham

Blue Mountain Grill from up near Acme in the South Fork Valley

Skylark's Hidden Cafe with Don White

Sorella's on the Bay, located in the Cruise Terminal, with co-owner Tera serving.

Mambo Italiano, one of our fine Fairhaven restaurants

Live music was played the entire afternoon.

Doug Borneman, co-chair of the Festival, gets a shot of the crowd.

So I try the same angle. Wow. There were a lot of us enjoying great chowders today.

Getting bread and a bowl. After tasting tiny amounts of each chowder, a ticket holder would come get a bowl and then go to the vendor with their favorite chowder and turn in their ticket in exchange for a bowl of chowder. The vendor with the most tickets at the end of the day wins.

Avenue Bread provided the free bread for all the bowls and also had a booth competing.

Dirty Dan Harris Steakhouse - with owner Steve.

A general view of the stage, musicians and our Village Green.

The esteemed judges, from left, Stephan Wells, Dirty Dan Harris and Joel Terrida. The Cookoff had two sets of prizes - the judges' choices and the people's choices. Of course the judges did blind tasting so they had no idea who's chowder they were rating.

Relaxing on the stage steps.
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