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2014 James Beard Awards

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Time for some douchey food talk. City of Decline and the Town of Incline held out of the awards this year. However, I have been to Peche in Nolya twice, so psyched to see that get lotsa props. Also been to Slanted Door in SF and Pizzeria Mozza in LA somewhat recently.

Would defs like to check out Poole's Diner in Raleigh and Blackberry Farms in TN, but I have no good reason to go to either of those places.

NOMNOM.


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Best New Restaurant
Betony (New York City)
Carbone (New York City)
Coqueta (San Francisco, California)
Estela (New York City)
Winner: Pêche (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Outstanding Bar Program
Bar Agricole (San Francisco, California)
Winner: The Bar at the NoMad Hotel (New York City)
Clyde Common (Portland, Oregon)
Maison Premiere (Brooklyn, New York)
The Violet Hour (Chicago, Illinois)

Outstanding Chef
Michael Anthony, Gramercy Tavern (New York City)
Isaac Becker, 112 Eatery (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Suzanne Goin, Lucques (Los Angeles, California)
David Kinch, Manresa (Los Gatos, California)
Winner: Nancy Silverton, Pizzeria Mozza (Los Angeles, California)
Marc Vetri, Vetri (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Outstanding Pastry Chef
Winner: Dominique Ansel, Dominique Ansel Bakery (New York City)
Dana Cree, Blackbird (Chicago, Illinois)
Belinda Leong, b. patisserie (San Francisco, California)
Dahlia Narvaez, Osteria Mozza (Los Angeles, California)
Christina Tosi, Momofuku (New York City)

Outstanding Restaurant
Hearth (New York City)
Highlands Bar and Grill (Birmingham, Alabama)
Winner: The Slanted Door (San Francisco, California)
Spiaggia (Chicago, Illinois)
wd~50 (New York City)

Outstanding Restaurateur
Winner: Barbara Lynch, Barbara Lynch Gruppo, Boston, Massachusetts (No. 9 Park, Menton, B&G Oysters, and others)
Donnie Madia, One Off Hospitality Group, Chicago, Illinois (Blackbird, Avec, The Publican, and others)
Cindy Pawlcyn, Napa Valley, California (Mustards Grill and Cindy’s Back Street Kitchen)
Caroline Styne, The Lucques Group, Los Angeles, California (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern, and others)
Phil Suarez, Suarez Restaurant Group, New York City (ABC Kitchen, Jean-Georges, wd~50, and others)

Outstanding Service
Blue Hill (New York City)
Quince (San Francisco, California)
Winner: The Restaurant at Meadowood, St. Helena, California
Topolobampo, (Chicago, Illinois)
Vetri (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Outstanding Wine Program
A16 (San Francisco, California)
Bar Boulud, NYC
Winner: The Barn at Blackberry Farm (Walland, Tennessee)
FIG (Charleston, South Carolina)
The Little Nell (Aspen, Colorado)

Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional
Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, Delaware)
Ron Cooper, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal (Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico)
Winner: Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery (Brooklyn, New York)
Harlen Wheatley, Buffalo Trace Distillery (Frankfort, Kentucky)
David Wondrich, spirits educator (Brooklyn, New York)

Rising Star Chef of the Year
Winner (tie): Jimmy Bannos Jr., The Purple Pig (Chicago, Illinois)
Katie Button, Cúrate (Asheville, North Carolina)
Jessica Largey, Manresa (Los Gatos, California)
David Posey, Blackbird (Chicago, Illinois)
Winner (tie): Blaine Wetzel, The Willows Inn on Lummi Island (Lummi Island, Washington)

Best Chef: Great Lakes
Winner: Dave Beran, Next (Chicago, Illinois)
Curtis Duffy, Grace (Chicago, Illinois)
Jonathon Sawyer, The Greenhouse Tavern (Cleveland, Ohio)
Paul Virant, Vie Restaurant (Western Springs, Illinois)
Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia (Chicago, Illinois)

Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic
Cathal Armstrong, Restaurant Eve (Alexandria, Virginia)
Spike Gjerde, Woodberry Kitchen (Baltimore, Maryland)
Brad Spence, Amis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Winner: Vikram Sunderam, Rasika (Washington, D.C.)
Cindy Wolf, Charleston (Baltimore, Maryland)

Best Chef: Midwest
Winner: Justin Aprahamian, Sanford (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Paul Berglund, The Bachelor Farmer (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Gerard Craft, Niche (Clayton, Missouri)
Michelle Gayer, Salty Tart (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Kevin Nashan, Sidney Street Cafe (St. Louis, Missouri)
Lenny Russo, Heartland Restaurant & Farm Direct Market (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Best Chef: Northeast
Winner: Jamie Bissonnette, Coppa (Boston, Massachusetts)
Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery + Cafe (Boston, Massachusetts)
Gerry Hayden, The North Fork Table & Inn (Southold, New York)
Matt Jennings, Farmstead Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island)
Michael Leviton, Lumière (Newton, Massachusetts)
Barry Maiden, Hungry Mother (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Best Chef: Northwest
Renee Erickson, The Whale Wins (Seattle, Washington)
Jason Franey, Canlis (Seattle, Washington)
Winner: Naomi Pomeroy, Beast (Portland, Oregon)
Ethan Stowell, Staple & Fancy (Seattle, Washington)
Cathy Whims, Nostrana (Portland, Oregon)

Best Chef: NYC
Winner: April Bloomfield, The Spotted Pig
Dan Kluger, ABC Kitchen
Mark Ladner, Del Posto
Jonathan Waxman, Barbuto
Michael White, Marea

Best Chef: South
Vishwesh Bhatt, Snackbar (Oxford, Mississippi)
Justin Devillier, La Petite Grocery (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Winner (tie): Ryan Prewitt, Pêche Seafood Grill (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Alon Shaya, Domenica (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Winner (tie): Sue Zemanick, Gautreau's (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Best Chef: Southeast
Kathy Cary, Lilly's (Louisville, Kentucky)
Winner: Ashley Christensen, Poole's Downtown Diner (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Edward Lee, 610 Magnolia (Louisville, Kentucky)
Steven Satterfield, Miller Union (Atlanta, Georgia)
Tandy Wilson, City House (Nashville, Tennessee)

Best Chef: Southwest
Kevin Binkley, Binkley’s (Cave Creek, Arizona)
Bryce Gilmore, Barley Swine (Austin, Texas)
Hugo Ortega, Hugo’s (Houston, Texas)
Winner: Chris Shepherd, Underbelly (Houston, Texas)
Justin Yu, Oxheart (Houston, Texas)

Best Chef: West
Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski, State Bird Provisions (San Francisco, California)
Michael Cimarusti, Providence (Los Angeles, California)
Corey Lee, Benu (San Francisco, California)
Winner: Daniel Patterson, Coi (San Francisco, California)
Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Animal (Los Angeles, California)
 
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Glad to see Ashley Christensen get the win.
 
Glad to see Highlands Bar and Grill, Birmingham, in the best restaurant list. Fabulous place to drink and eat.
 
Some thoughts on some of these places, mostly in SF:

Best New Restaurant
Coqueta - pretty good and some sick jamon, but not outstanding

Outstanding Bar Program
Bar Agricole - they have great drinks here, yes; food's good, too

Outstanding Pastry Chef
Belinda Leong, b. patisserie - really great traditional european pastries; lacks soul, though

Outstanding Restaurant
The Slanted Door - This is a head-scratcher. I mean, it's very good, but one of the more overrated spots in all of SF.

Outstanding Restaurateur
Barbara Lynch, Barbara Lynch Gruppo, Boston, Massachusetts (No. 9 Park, Menton, B&G Oysters, and others) - Good. Well deserved.

Outstanding Service
Quince - The Quince/Cotogna group is awesome

Outstanding Wine Program
A16 - Love A16.
Bar Boulud, NYC - Love Bar Boulud.

Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic
Vikram Sunderam, Rasika - Good for Raskia

Best Chef: Northwest
Ethan Stowell, Staple & Fancy - Had a good meal here

Best Chef: NYC
April Bloomfield, The Spotted Pig - Huzzah. She's done good things at Tosca in SF, too
 
slanted door was a head scratcher to me as well.
 
Blackbird in Chicago is great.

Sam Calagione is a beer genius and understands where Craft can go more than anyone else, not shocked.

Need to check out FIG
 
Poole's diner is really good - small, unassuming place - you would think it was nothing special (or worse) from the outside. I am probably not enough of a foodie to really appreciate it - but the food was definitely different and innovative. Menu changes daily and appears on a chalk board.
 
Chef Sunderam from Rasika is really deserving. It's consistently one of the best restaurants in the city, and after having eaten in most of the good places in town (multiple times for most), it's still the one I always come back to.
 
Surprised to see Amis beat out Laurel in Philly, but the Vetri love is justified.
 
Also, JBF is a really great resource if you're traveling to a random city and value non-crowdsourced food recs. That's served me well in trips to Denver and Seattle over the past year.
 
love Poole's! i'm also a big fan of Ashley Christensen's other Raleigh restaurants-- Chuck's (the BEST burgers & alcoholic milkshakes), Beasley's Chicken & Honey (yummy brunch and southern food), Joule's (her coffee shop), and Fox Liquor Bar (craft cocktails in a speak-easy type environment).
 
TownieDeac said:
Surprised to see Amis beat out Laurel in Philly, but the Vetri love is justified.
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In terms of Vetri, eh, it was an awesome meal, like really fucking good, but with 4 people, it ends up being like $1200 - and I can go to a ton of places that are somewhat close to that meal for much less than half of the cost.

Laurel is solid, Amis is good, but the atmosphere is a bit loud - tough to talk at anything larger than a 2-top.

Stephen Starr deserves to be on the Restaurateur list - Talulas Garden/Talulas Table/Serpico are all fantastic, El Vez/Alma de Cuba/Buddakan/Parc/Frankfurt Hall are solid gotos - he is a driving force behind Phillys foodie movement.
 
deacphan said:
slanted door was a head scratcher to me as well.
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Eh, Restaurant of the Year is usually given to a well established place, not a hot or inventive up and comer. Its more like a lifetime achievement award.

If you look at the last 4-5 winners of this award (Blue Hill/NYC, Boulevard/SF, Eleven Madison Park/NYC, Minibar/DC), they were all places that have been open 8-10 years before they received the award.

Slanted Door might not be the coolest spot in SFO anymore, but its been putting out quality work for a good long while now.
 
I still haven't eaten at the main Vetri spot, only the pizza place in Fairmount that is absurdly good.

We also haven't been able to get Laurel reservations yet. Guess you gotta do the Open Table 3 months ahead of time just after midnight thing.

I also think Kevin Sbraga and Jose Garces deserve love. Every Garces spot is fantastic.
 
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