Check Out the Chefs’ and Restaurateurs’ Looks at Last Night’s James Beard Awards
Silk suits, Air Jordans, strapless dresses, and more sartorial choices from last night's big event.
New York had an exceptionally strong showing, with Le Bernardin, wd~50, Blue Hill, Mission Chinese, Del Posto, and Momofuku among the winners.
The American team has never placed higher than sixth in the competition.
This fall's most ambitious culinary experiment now has a retrospective companion video.
Journey into the mind of Grant Achatz.
If Grant Achatz leaves Chicago in a train traveling 45 miles per hour ...
"Booze, weed, cocaine ambien, herion [sic] or cocktail of all vs Melatonin/fasting. Who r u ppl?"
Plus: East Oakland's food-truck crime spree, Grant Achatz's secret fast-food vices, and more, in our morning news roundup.
Unfortunately, legal issues turned the menu-development process into a "sh-tshow."
He's mulling menus inspired by the French Laundry and El Bulli for his Chicago restaurant Next.
"We’re hyperconscious of the fact that the public perception comes from a place of wanting us to fail. You have to worry. You have to keep pushing forward."
Plus: a new happy hour, Fatty Johnson's closes, and more, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
A documentary on the Corton chef, eight years in the making.
We plucked chefs' responses out of their epic list.
The Noma chef talks geotagging and culinary geneaology at last night's New York Public Library event.
Grant Achatz's still-unopened spot Next is anointed this year's best restaurant, even though it might not open until 2011.
Ferran Adrià and Grant Achatz have fun with cocktails.