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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
4:00- 6:00 PM (NEW TIMES!)
Corner of Cooper Avenue & Hunter Street, Aspen
Free & open to everyone!
Congratulations to the 2011 Soup Bowl Trophy Winner...UTE CITY! Thank you to all the restaurants that participated in 2012 making it the most successful Soupsköl yet! Many thanks to all the soup tasters that tried as many soups as possible...we had over 800 consumers vote for their favorite soup!
Soup Bowl Trophy past winners: Merry Go Round (2011), Garnish Cafe and Catering (2010-2007), Elk's Club (2006), Gwyn's High Alpine (2005), Johnny McGuire's (2004).
This year's Soupsköl judges were the 2012 Wintersköl King & Queen - Christy and Ted Mahon, and guest judge Liz Welter. Judges scored each restaurant based on specific criteria. The restaurant with the highest combination of consumer votes and judge's scores received the Soupskol Trophy for 2012.
Wintersköl's Soupsköl is a soup-cooking contest judged by the public to determine what restaurant has the best soup in town and it gives the winner bragging rights for the next year! Last season, over 3,000 locals and tourists attended the event and every year it keeps growing in popularity. It is designed to bring friendly competition to the restaurants within the Roaring Fork Valley. Located on Hunter St. & Cooper St. in downtown Aspen. Music by Rocky Mountain Deejays. This event is free and open to the public.
2012 Soupskol Participants include: 39 Degrees, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen Valley Hospital, BB's Kitchen, Challenge Aspen, Clark's Market, Conundrum Catering, Elk's Lodge #224, eatAspen.com, Finbarr's Irish Pub, Il Mulino, Inn at Aspen, in THE soup, Kenichi, Johnny McGuire's, Little Annie's Eating House, Mayberry Cafe, Merry Go Round, Pacifica Seafood, Red Onion, RumbleStrip Cafe, Sabra's Deli, Spice It Up, Syzygy, The Cheese Shop, The Grand, The Restaurant at the St Regis, The Silvertree Hotel, The Uppercrust, Ute City, and Viceroy Snowmass.
**Soupsköl Continues in Honor of Reggie Barbour** 
Reggie Barbour is the true Spirit of Wintersköl. We are very proud to continue this wonderful new Wintersköl tradition that Reggie created. The popular Aspen chef passed away Nov. 19 in his native Grand Junction after a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
It was during his two decades at durable Boogie's Diner in Aspen that Mr. Barbour earned real acclaim. His Southwestern chicken soup became a favorite with wind-chilled skiers and the Reggie Veggie hit the spot with noncarnivores. In high season, he'd turn out 800 lunches a day. An avid skier, softball player and golfer, the fun-loving chef also founded Aspen's annual Soupsköl competition, which challenged the glamorous resort town's best chefs to make their best soups and then - wonder of wonders in the land of the $35 entree - ladle them up for free.
But in the end he got even more satisfaction from fulfilling a long-held dream of publishing a book about Colorado's finest hidden-away restaurants and unheralded chefs. Reggie's self-published book praises 44 Colorado restaurants, including La Chaumiere in Lyons, the Peck House in Empire and Alice's Restaurant in Ward. Colorado's Forks in the Road: An Adventurer's Guide to Unique Restaurants was published last year, complete with recipes and his own photos.
