The 11th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational 2k13 (What Better Way To Spend 4/20?)

What better way to celebrate the unofficial National holiday that has become 4/20 than by hanging out with friends, enjoying quality crafted libations & beers and grubbing on some of the finest Grilled Cheese Sammich’s you may ever experience in your entire life?

The 11th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational is happening on April 20th, 2013 at Los Angeles Center Studios in downtown Los Angeles and will be the biggest, cheesiest, MOST imperial delight to ever land on the toasted, melted shores of Los Angeles.

NOWHERE will you find more hot cheesy goodness than at the GCI, with vendors such as The Grilled Cheese Truck, Heywood Grilled Cheese, The Counter, Greenspan’s Grilled Cheese, The Oaks Gourmet, Melt It, Elbows Mac & Cheese, Cheesy Amigos, Dogtown Dogs & many more, you’ll be able to pack your belly until your ready to burst with hot cheesy goodness!

Plus, there’s music!  The infamous RICHARD CHEESE AND LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will be playing the GCI at 12:30pm!  ALL THIS CHEESE will definitely turn it up to 11!

There’s cooking demos, costume contests, poetry contests, cheese calling contests, music, food, beer, glory, glory and MORE glory!

What? You haven’t bought tickets yet! Well not to worry.

Tickets are on sale now! Even though they have reached capacity for official judges for 2013, don’t you worry because you can still vote in the People’s Choice awards by purchasing as many hot and fresh grilled cheese sandwiches from the vendors that space and time will allow.

The Sponsors this year are totally the best people EVER!

The 11th Annual GCI is presented by The Grilled Cheese Truck, the most followed food truck in the world and creator of the infamous “Cheesy Mac & Rib,” a powerhouse sandwich with Sharp Cheddar Cheese, House-smoked BBQ Pork, Southern-style Macaroni & Cheese and Caramelized Onions on French Bread.  

At the event, you can participate in their “MotherLoaded Eating contest, which takes place at 4:20pm. 

Enter the contest here!

GCI’s exclusive cheese sponsor, CABOT CREAMERY, has teamed up with bread sponsor La Brea Bakery and will be providing samples of grilled cheese made from award-winning cheddar and other delicious cheeses. Also on hand will be free samples from Boulder Canyon potato chips, Kruegermann Pickles and Jarritos soda pops!

Visit the fundraiser Beer Garden curated courtesy of Beer Belly to get tastes from New Belgium Brewing, Lagunitas Brewing, Sierra Nevada and more.

Proceeds from the beer garden benefit the Rotary Club of Los Angeles.

The GCi committee has pulled out all the stops for the event this year and it should be one for the record books. 

On 4/20, there’s only one place to be and that’s at the 11th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational!