2025 Crosslake Days - Chili Cookoff

Description

For more than 35 years, Crosslake Businesses have simmered up their special chili recipes and every year the competition is HOT, as businesses go head-to-head for the Golden Ladles and bragging rights!  

We're bringing in self proclaimed culinary enthusiasts who will determine who wins the Crosslake Days Chili Cook-off Judges Trophy.

The Peoples Choice award is determined by hundreds of samplers, and often a tougher crowd to please! Tasting begins at noon at businesses Crosslake-wide until gone.

Visit and taste free samples at participating Chamber member businesses (map coming soon), and download the  Crosslake App to your mobile device and vote for your favorite by 3 p.m., winners will be announced and trophies presented shortly after.

2023 Chili Cookoff winner Tremolo Communications provided judges for this years competition. Julie Johnson, Mark Atwater and Carl Corbett chose their favorites:

2025 Judges Choice:

1st Place - Key Wellness & Aesthetics - Homegrown is the Key Chicken Chili

2nd Place - Holiday Station Store Crosslake - The Smoked Cinco

3rd Place - MN Roots - Chili Minnnesota

537 Votes were cast in the Peoples Choice:

1st Place - Key Wellness & Aesthetics - Homegrown is the Key Chicken Chili

2nd Place - Grand Champion Meats - Family Tradition

3rd Place - US Army Corps of Engineers - The Poultry Potion

31 Chili Cook-off Participants:

• 14 Lakes Pub & Brew
• Andy's Bar & Grill
• Crosslake Christian Assemblies of God Church
• Crosslake Coffee
• Crosslake Community School
• Crosslake Fifty Lakes American Legion
• Dark Horse Brew
• Grand Champion Meats
• Holiday Station Store Crosslake
• Honey Done Lights @ Crosslake Fire Department
• Jag Interior Solutions
• Key Wellness & Aesthetics 
• Lake Days Marine
• Lakes Area Tanning
• Legacy Gardens
• Manhattan's
• Maucieri's Italian Bistro
• MN Roots
• Moonlite Bay Family Restaurant & Bar
• National Loon Center
• Northern MN Railroad Heritage Assn.
• Patrick's Cedar Chest
• Riverside Tavern
• Shoppe 218
• Squirrelly Mama
• The Yellow House
• UpNorth Social
• US Army Corps of Engineers
• Whitefish at the Lakes Senior Living
• Wing Wellness PLLC
• Zorbaz Crozz Lake