James Beard Award Semifinalists 2009 Announced
The James Beard Foundation just released the list of chef and restaurant semifinalists [PDF] for the nicknamed "Oscars of the food world." The nominees won't be announced until March. To give you a taste, we've listed the Outstanding Restaurant semifinalists after the jump; the PDF at the Beard site lists the rest—Outstanding Chef, Best New Restaurant, Rising Star Chef, etc.
Outstanding Restaurant
Alan Wong’s Restaurant, Honolulu
Babbo, NYC
Bacchanalia, Atlanta
Bern’s Steak House, Tampa, FL
Blackbird, Chicago
Boulevard, San Francisco
Brigtsen’s, New Orleans
Delfina, San Francisco
Everest, Chicago
Fore Street, Portland, ME
Greens, San Francisco
Hamersley's Bistro, Boston
Higgins Restaurant and Bar, Portland, OR
Highlands Bar & Grill, Birmingham, AL
Jean Georges, NYC
Kinkead’s, Washington, D.C.
Lucia’s Restaurant, Minneapolis
Magnolia Grill, Durham, NC
Sanford, Milwaukee
Vidalia, Washington, D.C.
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3 Comments:
Can anyone open that PDF? It crashed firefox three times by opening about a hundred tabs.
mgnnn at 1:55PM on 02/13/09
I was able to DL and open it. Have you tried just downloading it to your desktop or DLs folder and opening it with an Adobe reader?
On that note, I don't know why Beard doesn't just put it up online on an actual web page. Any site that uses PDFs when they could just do text-on-page is annoying.
Adam Kuban at 2:29PM on 02/13/09
Babbo, J-G????? For serious? Aren't there a few other, more recent restos that haven't ALREADY been showered with praise in NYC? Don't get me wrong, they're great, but seems to me like this is a little bit ridiculous, they don't need more recognition.
simon at 3:57PM on 02/13/09