The "7th B-1 Local Gourmet Festival! B-1 Grand Prix in Kitakyushu", which determines the top of the B-class gourmet world nationwide, was held on October 20th and 21st. This time, the "Hachinohe Senbei Juice Research Institute" won the 1st place!

The B-1 Grand Prix is a "town revitalization" event that aims to "sell the town", that is, to promote the town and lead to revitalization, rather than simply providing food. Visitors eat food, comprehensively evaluate the performance to promote the area and the hospitality, and vote for chopsticks in the ballot box of their favorite group. The total weight of chopsticks earned in two days will determine the winning organization for the year. In this contest, the Grand Prix was decided by about 610,000 visitors (!)!



Following the 1st place (Gold Grand Prix) " Hachinohe Senbei Juice Research Institute " (Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture), the 2nd place (Silver Grand Prix) is Tsushima Tonchan Corps (Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture), and the 3rd place (Bronze Grand Prix) is Imabari Yakibuta Tamago. The Rice World Promotion Committee (Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture) won the award!





Furthermore, 4th place is "Namie Yakimen Taikoku" (Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture), 5th place is "Hinase Kakioko Town Development Association" (Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture), and 6th place is "Tagawa Hormone Eating Rakuho" (Tagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture). ), 7th place is "Tsuyama Hormone Udon Study Group" (Tagawa City, Okayama Prefecture), 8th place is "Hot Blood !! Katsuura Tantanmen Fleet" (Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture), 9th place is "Akashi Tamagoyaki Hirome Corps" (Hyogo Prefecture) Akashi City), 10th place is " Towada Rose Grilled Seminar " (Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture).

It seems that some gourmet products, including the 1st place "senbei-ji", can be purchased from the official website of each organization!

By the way, in this contest, the venue group "Kokura Yaki Udon Research Institute" and the inducted group "Fujinomiya Yakisoba Society" "Yokote Yakisoba Sanrai'S" "Kofu Tori Motsu Boiled Team" "Hiruzen" "Yakisoba Koitokai" was excluded from the voting.

Will B gourmet, which ranked high this time, become famous like "Fujinomiya Yakisoba"? I'm looking forward to future activities!