Jazzed up with a bit of dill-pickled peach and layered onto a Cheddar-jalapeño waffle.

"There are other ways to be creative with bacon than put it in a chocolate bar," Goldman says. Or maple. "Maple bacon donuts are now standard."

The Austin chef reimagined one of his dishes at his newest restaurant, Qui.

There is a pâté, a naam, fermented sausage, and more types of rabbit in this sandwich. "We thought that the rabbit was a good representation of the restaurant, we sell a lot of it, and nobody really serves rabbit," Qui said. They were out in two hours.

The chef tells us he's working on yet another East Side King, but won't say what the location's specialty will be just yet.

The Charleston, S.C., chef, who just opened Husk in Nashville, Tenn., decided to go with a true Southern dish for the event: "Hillybilly Fried Bologna Sandwich."

There are, he told The Daily Meal, 14 layers of fried bologna, on top of tomato, lettuce, and mayo.

Union Wine Company showed up in an adorable truck, while Widmer Brothers Brewing poured beers and Reyka Vodka mixed cocktails.

Krasinski worked with partner-in-crime Stuart Brioza to manage the lines.

The duo served a sweet corn and pork belly "panwich," as they called it.

Kreifels, who won the judge's award, accepts his prize.

Beef tongue might be an adventurous choice, but "you gotta have an open mind when you come to an event like this," Kreifels said. "Actually, it was requested of me by our lawyer. He said, 'You gotta make that sandwich.'"