2011 Fajita Cookoff Contest Is Coming

Time to fire up your Pits.

The Fajita Cookoff at PalmFest is scheduled for Oct. 1-2 at the McAllen Convention Center on the Expressway & Ware Rd. in McAllen.

This year’s competition will continue to celebrate the vibrant history of South Texas. All cooking categories are truly indigenous of this community and culture. Research proves the birthplace of the Fajita is The Rio Grande Valley.

We’ve added one additional cooking category this year, Mollejas, on Saturday.

And Sunday will be dedicated to the true [...]

Fajita Cookoff Officials Judge City Event

McAllen, TX
       On Saturday March 5 of this year, thousands of people came to Municipal Park to celebrate the City of McAllen’s first “Employee Appreciation Day”. Along with games & activities, live entertainment and food & beverage, there was a cooking competition with 5 categories. Nineteen City Department Cooking teams competed for the best in fajitas, salsa, charro beans, pan de campo and mollejas.

       The City organizers asked The producer of the original Fajita Cook-off, Christopher Julian and The Fajita [...]

The Fajita Cookoff is back to basics

McAllen, Texas — “Smokin Since 1976” is the theme of the original Fajita Cook-off. That’s because the very first Fajita Cook-off was held on Sunday July 4th, 1976. Do you know the location? Most say at Chimney Park on the banks of the Rio Grande in Madero, just south of Mission.

           “No, that was years 2 through 5,” says Christopher Julian Founder and producer of the Cook-off. The very first Fajita Cook-off was held on the County Courthouse parking [...]

2010 Fajita Cookoff Promotion Has Started

Hello Fajita Cookoff Fans and Cooking Teams !!

Richard Womeldorf here, and I want to announce that the time has come again to start getting your team together. This year, 2010, will bring some great changes and bring back some of our time tested, back to our roots, events setup.

The official post will be coming in a few days.

I just want to alert you to reserve your date. Oct 2 & 3,2010  (Sat and Sun)

The 34th Annual, The Original , The Granddaddy of them ALL, Fajita [...]

The Prize of the Cookoff

McAllen, TX - 

McAllen, Tx 2009

It’s not the fact that The Cook off at PalmFest is a State championship cook off which means the grand champion will be invited to the American Royal Invitational in Kansas City, Mo. And it’s not the $10,000 in guaranteed prize money. It is winning one of the custom made miniature BBQ pit trophies that drives crazy cooking teams from as far away as San Antonio and beyond to come to this year’s Fajita [...]

Map for Team Entry to Cookoff

Map for Teams ONLY
CookingTeams Only

CLICK HERE TO PRINT/SEE THE MAP FULL SIZE

Here is the map that you can print out. All teams will be entering on the EAST side of the McAllen Convention Center. This is the opposite end from year’s past. We will have our own private entry and exit point.

The gate will be manned and open at 10:00 AM on FRIDAY Nov 2, 09.
This is SETUP DAY.

Mandatory COOKS MEETING is at 7:30PM on Friday, at the Judging [...]

2009 Team Entry Fee Lowered

NEW LOWER TEAM PRICE FOR 2009
 
McAllen, TX

We are having a good response in Registrations this year. And WE THANK YOU !!

I know that having registration forms filled, paid, and in house this early, is a GOOD thing.
We have doubled our size in available room for BBQ Pits, Trailers, Big Rigs, and those back yard pits too.

Now, listen up !!   This year, I want to hit this out of the park, and I know many are worried about the economy. So [...]

2009 First Entry and All Systems Are GO !!

McAllen, TX –

The cooking team of RC Truck Brokerage of Pharr is the first official entry into this year’s RGV Cook-Off at PalmFest. Also known as The Fajita Cook-Off and The BBQ Cook-Off, the RGV Cook-Off will be held during PalmFest International Folk life Celebration October 3-4 at the new McAllen Convention Center on the Expressway and Ware Road.

This cook-off is the oldest and longest running cooking competition of its kind in the Valley and the state. This [...]

RGV Cookoff is a TX State BBQ Championship Competition

05/01/2009
McAllen, Tx

It’s Official !!  RGV Cookoff, organizational entity, that owns The Fajita Cookoff and The BBQ Cookoff, has been declared a Texas State BBQ Championship Competition.

Smokin’ since 1976, this year marks a new milestone for the RGV Cookoff at PalmFest in McAllen.  First of all, we have been proclaimed a “State Championship Cookoff by the
Texas State Senate”.

This means the Grand Champion of this cookoff will automatically be invited to compete in the American Royal Invitational in Kansas City, Mo. [...]

2008 Fajita Traditional Winners

2008 THE FAJITA COOKOFF WINNERS LIST

SHOWMANSHIP AWARD
R.C. Truckers Brokerage

TRADITIONAL DIVISION

Juan Arce – Puro Rancho Cooking Team
Elijio Garcia – Budweiser LIZARDS Cooking Team
Britt Massie – RE/MAX 1st Choice
? ? ? – Clark Chevolet Cooking Team
Juan Gonzalez – Individual
Hector Padilla/Blake Hall – Lack’s Valley Stores
Frank Cadena – Texas PitStoppers
Roel Castro – R.C. Trukers Brokerage
Jay & Myra Falcon – RED-WHITE-BLUE Cooking Team
Gumersindo and Gustavo Aguilar