Jacksonville chef featured on Food Network's 'Beachside Brawl' competition show
Jacksonville has a seat at the table for a new cooking competition show, "Beachside Brawl," which pits teams of chefs from the East Coast and West Coast against one another to produce sumptuous summertime treats.
Jacksonville chef Wesley Nogueira is one of five members of the East Coast team on the show, which airs at 10 p.m. Sundays on Food Network. He's the chef at Khloe's Kitchen, a catering company he started in 2017 that also runs the cafe at Florida State College at Jacksonville's Kent campus off Roosevelt Boulevard.
Each week, the teams participate in beach games to learn what ingredients they can and cannot include in their dishes. Antonia Lofaso is host of the show and a rotating group of judges including Guy Fieri, Alex Guarnaschelli, Stephanie Izard, Mei Lin, Jet Tila, and Claudette Zepeda grade the dishes the teams prepare. The show, which started its second season on June 18, is scheduled to run for seven weeks.
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The teams prepared Pier Favorites on the debut episode and will make Beachside Eats for the second. Future episodes will be them cooking for an All-American Party, Game Day Eats, Coastal Road Trip and Beach Club Cuisine. One chef will be eliminated from the competition at the end of each episode. The winner will be declared "Best of the Beach" and win a beach getaway.
Nogueira, a native of Brazil, moved to Jacksonville as a teen and served as executive chef at bb's in San Marco before starting Khloe's Kitchen.
Joining Nogueira on the East Coast team are captain Eric Adjepong; Nick Chavez of Wilmington, N.C.; Samantha Cruz of Miami; Cara Nance of Lincoln, R.I.; and Martel Stone of Washington, D.C.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville chef Wesley Nogueira competes on 'Beachside Brawl'
