Beaches Habitat for Humanity hosted the 15th annual Beach Bash featuring the Ultimate Chef's Challenge on Oct. 16 at Sawgrass Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach.
The fundraiser for Beaches Habitat offered guests a chance to pick their favorite foods from 10 area restaurant chefs at Marker32, 3 Palms Grille, Ocean 60, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Eleven South, Chef Kenny Gilbert Group, Restaurant Medure, Roy's Restaurant, Valley Smoke and North Beach Fish Camp/Palm Valley Fish Camp.
At the event, guests deposited rubber bracelets inside ballot boxes at each food station to determine the Ultimate Chef's Challenge winner. Toward the end of the evening, event organizers took the ballot boxes off to the side, counted the bracelets and announced that Chef Mike Riska of Valley Smoke was the winner.
Beaches Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in the Jacksonville Beaches area. For more information, visit www.beacheshabitat.org.
