James Beard Awards for 2016

I love lists and awards! Yesterday the James beard awards for 2016 were given out. We talked about the nominations, but here are the winners:

Restaurant Awards

• Best Chef: Great Lakes Curtis Duffy, Grace, Chicago
• Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic Aaron Silverman, Rose’s Luxury, Washington D.C.
• Best Chef: Midwest Paul Berglund, The Bachelor Farmer, Minneapolis
• Best Chef: New York City Jonathan Waxman, Barbuto
• Best Chef: Northeast Zak Pelaccio, Fish & Game, Hudson, NY
• Best Chef: Northwest Renee Erickson, The Whale Wins, Seattle
• Best Chef: South Justin Devillier, La Petite Grocery, New Orleans
• Best Chef: Southeast Tandy Wilson, City House, Nashville
• Best Chef: Southwest Justin Yu, Oxheart, Houston
• Best Chef: West Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Animal, Los Angeles
• Best New Restaurant Shaya, New Orleans
• Outstanding Baker Joanne Chang, Flour Bakery + Café, Boston
• Outstanding Bar Program Maison Premiere, Brooklyn, NY
• Outstanding Chef Suzanne Goin, Lucques, Los Angeles
• Outstanding Pastry Chef Dahlia Narvaez, Osteria Mozza, Los Angeles
• Outstanding Restaurant Alinea, Chicago
• Outstanding Restaurateur Ken Friedman, The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, Tosca Café, NYC
• Outstanding Service Eleven Madison Park, NYC
• Outstanding Wine Beer or Spirits Ron Cooper, Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal, Ranchos de Taos, NM
• Outstanding Wine Program Bern’s Steakhouse, Tampa, FL
• Rising Star Chef of the Year Daniela Soto-Innes, Cosme, NYC

for all the other detailed awards, including design, books, Media and Journalism, check out the James Beard website. I am including here some of the higlights in these categories:

Outstanding Restaurant Design Awards

• 75 Seats and Under (TIE) 
  • Firm: Demian Repucci Design Designer: Demian Repucci Project: Bruno, NYC
  • Firm: Renzo Piano Building Workshop Designers: Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Collaboration with Cooper Robertson and Bentel & Bentel Project: Untitled, NYC
• 76 Seats and Over  Firm: Land and Sea Dept.  Designers: Mode Carpentry, Land and Sea Dept. (Robert McAdams, Jon Martin, Peter Toalson, and Cody Hudson) Project: Cherry Circle Room, Chicago

Book Awards

• General Cooking  The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science J. Kenji López-Alt (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Book of the Year:  Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook (Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Media Awards

• Documentary The Starfish Throwers Director: Jesse Roesler Producers: Jesse Roesler and Melody Gilbert Airs on: DirecTV Audience Network and iTunes
• Outstanding Personality/Host Host: Vivian Howard A Chef’s Life Airs on: PBS
• Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location Extra Virgin Hosts: Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos Producers: Gordon Elliott, Mark Schneider, Dan Connell, Sara Porter, Debi Mazar, and Gabriele Corcos Airs on: Cooking Channel
• Television Program, on Location I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Host: Phil Rosenthal
  Producers: Laurie Donnelly, Phil Rosenthal, Richard Rosenthal, John Bedolis, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Craig H. Shepherd, and David Beebe Airs on: PBS

Journalism Awards

• Dining and Travel “America’s Best Food Cities” Tom Sietsema The Washington Post
• Food and Health  “The Healthy Cook’s Guide to Fat” Sidney Fry and Robin Bashinsky Cooking Light
• Food Blog Lucky Peach
• Food-Related Columns “Eat” Francis Lam New York Times Magazine
• Publication of the Year Lucky Peach