SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Thoughts On The 2013 James Beard Nominations The James Beard Awards announced their final 2013 nominees on Monday. The list might surprise you. Or not. Probably not, in fact. It's quite similar to 2012. Let's begin: First up, Thomas McNaughton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards Milk It With Semifinalist Longlist As expected the Bay Area did super-duper when the James Beard Awards announced their curious semifinalist longlist. Why a semifinalist longlist? Presumably to give PR people more jerk-off material. Who knows. Fetch San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boulevard, Pastry Chef Emily Luchetti Honored At James Beard Awards After eight nominations and no wins, Nancy Oakes and Pat Kuleto's American-French Boulevard nabbed 2012's Outstanding Restaurant honor at this year's James Beard Awards. A well-deserved (and somewhat tardy) win, Boulevard beat out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award 2012 Nominees Announced The James Beard Award nominees were announced Monday, and SFist's searing portrait of the Jack in the Box Bacon Shake was not nominated in the media category. (Fie, nominating committee! Fie!) Other than
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ, Nopa, Danny Bowien Are James Beard Award Semifinalists The James Beard Awards (the CableACE Awards of food) announced their semifinalist list today. Not surprisingly, many Bay Area gastronomes made the cut. Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien, Thomas McNaughton of Flour + Water,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYC Beats SF at James Beard Awards During last night's chefs and restaurants portion of the James Beard Awards (i.e., the Grammy Awards of food), New York took home most of the top awards, leaving many Bay Area gastronomes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Chronicle Early James Beard Winners Before tonight's chef and restaurants awards are handed out at the 2011 James Beard Awards, early technical awards in the non-chef categories (i.e., books, broadcast, journalism and restaurant design) were bestowed Friday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards 2011 Nominations Announced The James Beard Foundation announced its final nominees today for their annual awards bestowment, set to take place on May 9. As expected a slew of nominees are right here in the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Wins Few James Beard Awards The James Beard Awards (the Junos of cuisine, if you will) were announced yesterday. Although the Bay Area came up a wee bit short -- at least when compared to arty-farty New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Semifinalist List Announced The James Beard Award pre-nominations (or, "semifinalists") were announced today. In the "Outstanding Chef" category, Charles Phan (The Slanted Door), Michael Minna (Michael Minna), and Gary "Gummy Worm" Danko (Gary Danko) all received
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Chefs Among James Beard Award Winners The Oscars of the food world were held yesterday in New York, and among top honorees were San Francisco's Nate Appleman of the restaurants A16 and SPQR, who won Best Rising Star Chef
SF News And the Award for 'Best Chef Pacific' Goes To... Who will snatch the award for Best Chef Pacific at tonight's James Beard Award ceremony? The nominees come from Bay Area, because we are, inarguably, the best place in the state, if not