Thousands Taste Creative Chicken At Beverly Hills Tender Fest (Photos)

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — Thousands lined Crescent Drive Saturday to have their taste of chicken tender paradise at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, home of a massive all-day festival full of fried food.

Attendees tasted chicken tenders from 11 different celebrity chefs and famous Los Angeles spots, including: Raising Cane's, Original Dinos Famous Chicken, Holwin' Rays, Daring Foods, Delilah, Willie Mae's and Gogo Bird.

The sweltering day brought booze, music, sweets and cute photo ops for ticket holders. In the later portion of the afternoon, celebrity DJ Zack Bia did a set for attendees.

Netflix competitive chef Tim Hollingsworth took home the Best Tender title, standing out against chefs from Nobu restaurants, Plateworthy host Nyesha Arrington and social media star Tway Nguyen.

"Tim Hollingsworth’s tender won as it met and exceeded the following criteria: overall presentation, flavor and texture. The judges thought his tender was very thought out and exemplified a unique flavor that was absolutely delicious. Everything about his tender impressed and moved the judges," a representative of Tender Fest said.

Saturday's chefs got incredibly creative with their tenders, offering a range of different types of fried chicken, slathered in creative dipping sauces and gorgeous presentations. Some went sweet, like Arrington who had a chicken and waffles inspired tender with an infused maple-like sauce. Others, like Dinos, offered a kick of heat.

Daring Foods handed out an elate-inspired plant-based chicken tender, with chili and garlic flavors and corn in the fry batter.

Jordan and Josh were the first two people in line for Tender Fest, and they ended up waiting about an hour to finally get in. Jordan surprised her boyfriend Josh with the tickets Saturday morning during his first trip to Los Angeles.

"I love chicken, I love sauce so it's great to be here," Josh said.

If it was up to them, Nobu restaurants or Arrington would have won the competition.