A cut above the rest. Sioux Falls Pork Showdown winners announced
Maribella Ristorante and Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen brought home the bacon in this year’s Downtown Sioux Falls Pork Showdown , with downtown diners going whole hog, spending nearly $110,000 overall during October’s month-long event. Downtown Sioux Falls announced the winners of the sixth annual competition on Thursday inside the Bancorp Building at Cherapa Place downtown. More: Swine and dine: Restaurants go whole hog for DTSF Pork Showdown “Six years ago, the Pork Showdown began as a fun way to highlight downtown Sioux Falls' incredible culinary scene while connecting our community with one of South Dakota's most important agricultural industries,” said DTSF Chief Development Officer Taryn Sietsema. “ Since then, the event has grown into an annual tradition that local food lovers eagerly anticipate each year.” Maribella a first-time winner for Pork Showdown Out of the 26 participants, Maribella Ristorante won the overall competition with a 9.77 rating for its “Pluma,” a pan-seared loin served with spaghetti tossed in an apple brie cream sauce with asparagus tips, blistered tomatoes and pancetta. For Maribella head chef Adam Schumacher, the win was years in the making. “It was kind of emotional,” Schumacher said when he first heard the news. “Trying to win
