{"id":43450,"date":"2026-02-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=43450"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:07:47","slug":"photos-dayton-bloody-mary-showdown-celebrates-a-favorite-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2026\/02\/02\/photos-dayton-bloody-mary-showdown-celebrates-a-favorite-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Dayton Bloody Mary Showdown celebrates a favorite cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Local bartenders competed for “Best Tablescape,” “Best Garnish” and “Best Bloody Mary.”<\/strong> HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Roosevelt Room won “Best Tablescape” with their station celebrating recent nuptials. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wheat Penny competed with decadent garnishes and won third place for their clarified Mary. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sparky’s Lounge offered two different Bloody Mary flavors: spicy pickle and mild olive. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three Birds recently opened in Oakwood and offered incentives to try the restaurant. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The line for El Meson, which took first place for “Best Garnish” and “Best Bloody Mary,” stretched across the room. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The event space of the Dayton Masonic Center.<\/strong> HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Participants sampled food and drink from local restaurants. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Participants sampled food and drink from local restaurants. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The event space of the Dayton Masonic Center. <\/strong>HANNAH KICHLINE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 1, the Dayton Bloody Mary Showdown was held at the Dayton Masonic Center downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General admission provided participants with eight sample tickets and the ability to vote for Best Garnish, Best Tablescape and Best Bloody Mary. Wheat Penny, Lily’s and The Roosevelt Room were among the competitors, offering a range of flavors from smoky to spicy to sour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Meson took the gold for Best Garnish and Best Bloody Mary, while The Roosevelt’s Room’s “just married” celebration won them Best Tablescape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Kichline, multimedia editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Feb. 1, the Dayton Bloody Mary Showdown was held at the Dayton Masonic Center downtown. General admission provided participants with eight sample tickets and the ability to vote for Best Garnish, Best Tablescape and Best Bloody Mary. Wheat Penny, Lily’s and The Roosevelt Room were among the competitors, offering a range of flavors from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10416,"featured_media":43461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3432,3613,3522,2104,5528,2616,2108,2110,5390,3398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-dayton-news","category-entertainment","category-events","category-featured","category-food","category-local","category-photos","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260201_132446-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-biO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43462,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43450\/revisions\/43462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}