The 2004 Regional Young Chef Rotisseur Competition, a contest resembling television’s popular “Iron Chef” series, was held Saturday in the School of Culinary Arts kitchens in the Campus Center.

The winner, Evan Goldstein, who is not a City College student, will be sent to San Fransisco for the next competition. Second place went to City College student Theo Rosenblatt, who also won second place last year.

The chefs were given a surprise basket containing the ingredients they had to use to make a four-course meal. The basket included: a fryer rabbit, live in-shell scallops, New Zealand snapper, live dungeness crab, live sea urchins, mache, asparagus, rapini, Japanese eggplant, chanterelles, St. Andre cheese and Meyer lemons.

Students from a catering class completed a lab requirement by assisting the chefs with washing pans and gathering ingredients, but the chefs alone could prepare the actual food.

The competition lasted four hours, and judging was based on taste, presentation, use of each ingredient and creativity. Each contestant was given 30 minutes to prepare a menu, three hours cooking time and 30 minutes platting time.