City Winery
155 Varick St. at Vandam St.
Sunday, December 5, $32.50, 4:00
212-608-0555
www.citywinery.com
City Winery, home of the Sunday Klezmer Brunch, will be celebrating Hanukkah on December 5 with its second annual International Latke Festival, a potato-pancake cook-off featuring local chefs from Great Performances, which supplies food to many of the city’s finest cultural institutions, seeking to become the Latke Champion. This year’s contestants are Tim Sullivan, executive chef of BAMcafe and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, who will be making an American latke; Jack Kiggens, executive chef at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom, going for the Cuban version; Liz Neumark, the CEO of Great Performances, attempting the Israeli edition; Marc Spooner, executive chef of Great Performances, preparing the Russian kind; and Matthew Riznyk, sous chef of Great Performances, frying up the Chinese latke. The battle will also feature live music from the Seattle-based Jewish ensemble Sasson. And yes, you’ll get to sample all of the dishes and argue that Grandma Blanche’s Yonkers latkes are still the best.