** Congrats to winners Joe Pierucci & Cindy Suen Fong! **

When tickets for the highly-anticipated 4th Annual Sac Bacon Fest Chefs Competition went on sale in November, they sold out in less than 24 hours.

But two Cowtown Eats readers, through the generosity of the crew at Sac Bacon Fest, have the chance to win a pair of tickets each to this Sunday's event at Mulvaney's at 2 p.m.

But first, a little more about the event. Competing for a $500 in MAC knives and bragging rights will be:

Brian Mizner of Hook & Ladder

Brock MacDonald of Block Butcher Bar

Matt Brown of 58 Degrees & Holding Co.

Scott Ostrander of Esquire Grill

Michael Thiemann of Empress Tavern

Oliver Ridgeway of Grange

Robb Venditti of Pangaea

Rachel Kelly of South

Stan Moore (formerly of Clark’s Corner)

Ian MacBride (defending champion!) of Lucca

Billy Zoellin of Bacon & Butter

Jason Azevedo of Mighty Tavern

Travis Surmi (formerly of Grange)

Del Gibbs from Shady Lady

Patrick Mulvaney

Judges this year:

Ravin Patel of Ella Dining Room & Bar

Michael Passmore of Passmore Ranch

Kelly Hogge of Magpie

Aimal Formoli of Formoli’s

Billy Ngo of Kru

Nguyen Pham of Sunh Fish Co.

Adam Pechal of Crawdad’s

Adam Schulze of The Waterboy

You can enter one of three ways.

First, visit the Sac Bacon Fest Facebook page and check out what restaurants are offering this week.

On Twitter: Send the following message on Twitter. "I can't wait to try [Insert Bacon Dish] at [Insert restaurant] during @SacBaconFest." Please try to use Twitter handles for the restaurants. On Facebook: Comment on the Cowtown Eats Facebook Page (preferably, the post that links to this contest) and tell us what bacon dish from a participating restaurant looks delicious. Make sure you tag Sac Bacon Fest in your post. Leave a comment below with which bacon item makes your mouth water.

All those who enter via any of these three means will by 12:30 p.m. on Friday, January 23 will be entered to win a pair of tickets tickets. Two winners will be selected by random drawing. I'll contact you via whatever means you entered to get your real name, and the tickets will be there for you at will call on Sunday.