The NCA Feast Fest lives here
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Windows on the Water Exhibition Halted
-Morro Bay, CA
-The recently inexhaustible 98.0-and-up streak for the individual turkey score could not have ended Saturday evening even if it had wanted to, as the second-to-last exhibitional Thanksgiving before the real big day was halted seven minutes into cooking at Windows on the Water in Morro Bay. A water main burst for an unknown reason, causing the kitchen to begin to flood. All chefs got out safely, and the water was eventually cleaned up, but there was no telling whether re-entry into the kitchen would be safe.
"We couldn't even look," commented Jim McAllister while explaining that he and the other chefs were heavily guarded from re-entry into the kitchen.
The 7:34 p.m. incident sent chefs and patrons scrambling, and the restaurant was closed to the public an hour later. Late in the night, around 10 p.m., there were talks of resuming the exhibition with some of the NCA critics still present, until it was realized that such an arrangement would put Dig In at approximately... 2:15 a.m.
Thus, the event was postponed at 10:45 Saturday night, with no word as to resumption or the when- and whereabouts of such.
"If they get everything [with the water main] fixed up all good and nice, they might call us up tomorrow and we'll shoot down here," said McAllister. "Problem is, some were planning to leave tomorrow, but Morro Bay has a contract with FF that they get to host an exhibition, and with our tight schedule, I don't think anybody will be leaving here until that happens."
Suddenly, the prospect of being shanghaied in the sleepy yet vibrant Central Coast harbor community becomes a little less appealing.
Al Green, head of the NCA, said late Saturday that all that could be said about when and where the exhibition would be resumed was "before the week is out." Many, hoping to be able to return home to their families on Sunday, moaned at the statement.
Likely the exhibition will be resumed Sunday afternoon or evening, or, failing that, on Monday.
After Morro Bay, the final exhibition before Feast Fest is on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at the Edelyn Cooking Arena in Punta Gorda, Florida.
The projected NCA score for the Morro Bay exhibition when the water main broke Saturday was a mediocre 73.4, but "that was only seven minutes out of about four or five hours," said McAllister. "We should definitely be able to make that up whenever the heck we get cooking again."
-The recently inexhaustible 98.0-and-up streak for the individual turkey score could not have ended Saturday evening even if it had wanted to, as the second-to-last exhibitional Thanksgiving before the real big day was halted seven minutes into cooking at Windows on the Water in Morro Bay. A water main burst for an unknown reason, causing the kitchen to begin to flood. All chefs got out safely, and the water was eventually cleaned up, but there was no telling whether re-entry into the kitchen would be safe.
"We couldn't even look," commented Jim McAllister while explaining that he and the other chefs were heavily guarded from re-entry into the kitchen.
The 7:34 p.m. incident sent chefs and patrons scrambling, and the restaurant was closed to the public an hour later. Late in the night, around 10 p.m., there were talks of resuming the exhibition with some of the NCA critics still present, until it was realized that such an arrangement would put Dig In at approximately... 2:15 a.m.
Thus, the event was postponed at 10:45 Saturday night, with no word as to resumption or the when- and whereabouts of such.
"If they get everything [with the water main] fixed up all good and nice, they might call us up tomorrow and we'll shoot down here," said McAllister. "Problem is, some were planning to leave tomorrow, but Morro Bay has a contract with FF that they get to host an exhibition, and with our tight schedule, I don't think anybody will be leaving here until that happens."
Suddenly, the prospect of being shanghaied in the sleepy yet vibrant Central Coast harbor community becomes a little less appealing.
Al Green, head of the NCA, said late Saturday that all that could be said about when and where the exhibition would be resumed was "before the week is out." Many, hoping to be able to return home to their families on Sunday, moaned at the statement.
Likely the exhibition will be resumed Sunday afternoon or evening, or, failing that, on Monday.
After Morro Bay, the final exhibition before Feast Fest is on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at the Edelyn Cooking Arena in Punta Gorda, Florida.
The projected NCA score for the Morro Bay exhibition when the water main broke Saturday was a mediocre 73.4, but "that was only seven minutes out of about four or five hours," said McAllister. "We should definitely be able to make that up whenever the heck we get cooking again."
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