THE 2025 NATIONAL EGG CREAM INVITATIONAL
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For National Egg Cream Day on March 15th, 2024, before a sold out audience, the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum hosted soda jerks from the best soda fountains in New York City’s five boroughs and beyond.
They competed in The 2024 National Egg Cream Invitational to settle the argument on how to make the best egg cream once and for all.
The grand prize winner of the Golden Siphon was won by the Franklin Fountain, a classic soda shop from Philadelphia. Shocking the local New York City crowd, they took home the gold plated seltzer siphon and claimed the title of best egg cream in the nation.
In 2025, at Brooklyn Seltzerfest, who will win the Golden Siphon? Will it return to New York or remain outside the Big Apple?
This year’s competitors include:
This year’s judges include:
Benny Safdie is a film-maker, life long New Yorker, and been a fan of egg creams his whole life. “I make a not too bad one myself!”
Ginny Landt is a candy scientist and the author behind The Official Barbie Cocktail Book, releasing this spring. Both her parents grew up loving egg creams, which meant Ginny did as well, and she’s even featured boozy versions on her cocktail Insta.
This year’s M.C. will be Chef Ari Miller. Ari draws upon his Eastern European heritage as well as the cuisine of Tel Aviv, where he lived for a decade, specializing in whole ingredient usage. He was the chef/owner of Musi, a critically acclaimed restaurant in Philadelphia, PA, that focused on zero-waste and non-industrial sourcing while addressing how a restaurant can best serve its employees, guests, and community in an approach he called “Relationship Cuisine”. Most recently he was the Executive Chef of CUT at the Rosewood Hotel in Washington, DC. He is currently the Chef-in-Residence for Poi Dog Sauces and working on his forthcoming restaurant, a Jewish Brasserie to be called The Purslane.
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