Cook-off Competition
Let’s cook (and EAT) for a cause & adopt a school!
Lady’s Coco Classic is looking for candidates to participate in the love of cooking, Louisiana style, with the gratitude to help our children with Autism and sensory needs. Get their voices heard with your help by supporting schools, teachers, and individuals in the Tri Parish area.
Our Louisiana Style Cook-off is open to any dish, cooked anyway. This competition is packed with opportunity to earn bragging rights!
- Keeping with our traditional support of Louisiana Seafood, there will be a special, judge-chosen award for any dish cooked with Louisiana Seafood – Lady’s CoCo Seafood Grand Prize Winner.
- We will have a People’s Choice Award that will include all dishes (seafood and non-seafood). This will be judged based on the taste buds of attendees who will have the opportunity to sample your dish.
- Our additional competition, Best Decorated, will be judged based upon our panel of judges.
Judges will be at the discretion of the committee. The seafood dish awarded the Grand Prize will not be eligible for the People’s Choice Award.
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Lady's CoCo Seafood Grand Prize Winner
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$500 check
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Award Plaque
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$1,000 donation to school of your choice
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People's Choice Award
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1st Place
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2nd Place
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3rd Place
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$400 check
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$300 check
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$200 check
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Award Plaque
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Award Certificate
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Award Certificate
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$1,000 donation to school of your choice
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$500 donation to school of your choice
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$500 donation to school of your choice
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School choice is based off of registration selection. (School donation will be earmarked for use in the Special Ed/Resource classroom) |
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Best Decorated
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$100
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Theme: Louisiana Seafood
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Competition Fees
Entry fee for Contestants:
$50.00
Entry Fee for Attendees:
All you can eat seafood for $10 (Wristband) – available at ticket booth
Competition Rules and Information
Space
- Each contestant will be provided with serving containers, spoons/forks, and napkins.
- Spaces will be a maximum space size of 10ft x 10ft. 110 Volts plugs will be provided.
- A sign with the name of the dish will be provided
Rules
There will be no refunds or reimbursements for any team found violating any of the rules below.
- To be a candidate in the event, the name of the dish must be turned into the Lady’s Coco Classic no later than July 15, 2026. If sent in sooner, it will greatly help with advertisement of your dish and company on social media.
- Candidates should be prepared to serve at least 250 sample-sized seafood dishes. Serving will begin at 4:00 pm on July 18, 2026. (Prepping and Cooking may be done on or off-site)
- To be considered for the Seafood Grand Prize Category:
- The main ingredient of the sample size must be Louisiana seafood (Shrimp, Crab, Oysters, or Fish). Your dish can ONLY HAVE ONE SEAFOOD choice per dish. It’s the chef’s choice of what kind of Louisiana seafood and how to cook it. (i.e. grilled, fried, pan-fried, or as a cold appetizer) **If you have a raw oyster dish, please make a sign stating the risk of raw oyster consumption.**
- You must use bottled water for adding water to your dish- no hose water.
- All teams are expected to maintain their cooking sites in an orderly and clean manner and to use good sanitary practices during the preparation, cooking, and judging process (serving). Sanitary gloves are always required while handling food. Failure to use sanitary gloves may result in disqualification. Teams are responsible for cleaning their sites once the competition has ended. Water hoses
can be used for cleanup. Any trash or leftover items must be picked up and disposed of properly. - All federal, state, and local food safety rules and regulations must always be followed.
- There will be no refunds or reimbursements for any team found in the violation.
- Contestants will serve wristband customers only. The collecting of tokens to determine People’s Choice Winners will start at 7:30 pm. Tokens will be delivered to the Judge’s station to be counted.
- Contestants are encouraged to continue serving after tickets are collected. We ask to continue only serving wristband customers as this is a fundraiser.
- Inform Lady’s CoCo Classic if you are in need of volunteers to serve.
Judging
- Judging for best decorated will be completed by our panel during serving time.
- For the Seafood Grand Prize, a panel of judges will visit and sample each station serving Louisiana Seafood (these booths will be marked with a Louisiana Seafood Sticker).
- For People’s Choice, the counters of the tokens will be 18 years old and older. All dishes are eligible for People’s Choice with the exception of our Seafood Grand Prize Winner.
- Tokens will be counted with a total per contestant. Results will be given to Brittney and DJ Rhett to announce the winner. Winners will be announced at 8PM on July 18, 2026, with the award to be handed to the winner.
Cook-Off Form
Cook-Off registration form
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