Winner Recap!
Outstanding Pastry Chef: Brooks Headley, Del Posto, NYC
Best New Restaurant: State Bird Provisions, San Francisco
Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America Inductee: Zarela Martinez, Chef and Restaurateur, NYC
Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America Inductee: Michael Mina, Chef and Restaurateur, San Francisco
Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America Inductee: Bill Yosses, Author and Pastry Chef, Washington, D.C.
Outstanding Restaurateur: Maguy Le Coze, Le Bernardin, NYC
Outstanding Service: Del Posto, NYC
Outstanding Restaurant: Blue Hill, NYC
Outstanding Chef: (tie) David Chang, Momofuku Noodle Bar, NYC, and Paul Kahan, Blackbird, Chicago
Gala Chef Q & A: David Myers
David Myers, Hinoki & the Bird, San Francisco
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
Late-night pasta and wine, followed by Gummi Bears.
What’s your favorite movie, and why?
I have a lot, but Blade Runner is my go-to movie. The music by Vangelis is perfect.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
Sushi in Tokyo at Nakamura.
What’s the dish you’re most proud of?
I don’t focus on one dish. I like the ability to change constantly.
What’s your earliest food memory?
Picking vegetables from the garden and cooking them right away as a part of my daily task.
What do you eat for breakfast?
A four-minute boiled egg and crispy nori.
What’s your favorite healthy food?
The slow-pressed j... Read more >
Gala Chef Q & A: JBF Award Winner Traci Des Jardins
JBF Award Winner Traci Des Jardins, Jardinière, San Francisco
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
Tortilla chips and salsa.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
I had a great bite the other night: griddled rice cake with uni in soy butter and watercress. It was divine—texture, flavors, everything.
What’s the dish you’re most proud of?
I don’t have favorites—that would be like saying you have a favorite child.
What’s your favorite movie snack?
Popcorn with real butter.
What’s your earliest food memory?
Eating oatmeal in my high chair.
What do you eat for breakfast?
Cottage cheese with coarse salt, pepper, and olive oil.
What’s your favorite healthy food?
Lacinato kale.
What was your f... Read more >
Food in Film: Gourmets
From food fights to fava beans and a nice Chianti, here are some more memorable food scenes.
Gala Chef Q & A: JBF Award Winner Grant Achatz
JBF Award Winner Grant Achatz, The Aviary, Chicago
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
Pizza.
What’s your favorite movie, and why
Big Fish. It's a fairy tale and a life lesson.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
The French Laundry—need I say more?
What’s your favorite movie snack?
Cheese-flavored Pirate's Booty.
What’s your earliest food memory?
Making cherry Jell-O.
What do you eat for breakfast?
Coffee.
What’s your favorite healthy food?
Juices from Peeled, a local juice company.
What was your first job in the culinary world?
At my parents’ restaurant.
What movie are you ashamed to admit you love?
The Goonies.
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Gala Chef Q & A: JBF Award Winner Gabriel Rucker
JBF Award Winner Gabriel Rucker, Le Pigeon, Portland, OR
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
In-N-Out cheeseburgers.
What’s your favorite movie, and why?
The Last of the Mohicans—the beautiful cinematography and the history.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
Lunch at our favorite spot: Clark Lewis. Great fresh salads and handmade pastas with the most amazing ragù. I always treat my son with the respect of an adult diner even though he is only one.
What’s the dish you’re most proud of?
Right now, scallops with fresh heart of palm.
What’s your favorite movie snack?
Sour Patch Kids.
What’s your earliest food memory?
Eating sweetbreads at the CIA in Napa. [I had] no idea what they were, but I loved them.
What do you ea... Read more >
Winner Recap!
America’s Classic: Frank Fat’s, Sacramento, CA
Outstanding Restaurant Design Award: 75 Seats and Under: Design Firm: Taavo Somer; Designer: Taavo Somer; Project: Isa, Brooklyn, NY
Outstanding Restaurant Design Award: 76 Seats and over: Design Firm: Alejandro Barrios Carrero Designs; Designer: Alejandro Barrios Carrero; Project: Juvia, Miami Beach, FL
America’s Classic: C.F. Folks, Washington, D.C.
America's Classic: C. F. Folks
1225 19th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Owner: Art Carlson
Art Carlson’s weekday-only lunch haunt on Dupont Circle, open since 1981, is a 600-square-foot temple of honest cooking and goodwill. (The name combines the initials of Carlson and his business partner, Peggy Fredricksen.) The vibe is loud and scrappy, and the food is delicious. Art Carlson, the ever-present host, is one of the last of a dying breed: a hands-on owner who schmoozes and teases his customers, often at the same time.
The place, with its 11 counter stools, is comfortable in its age. Behind the long Formica counter, racks of cookbooks from Julia Child and fellow titans share space with scribbled postcards, a rattletrap stereo system, a collection of old political campaign buttons, and a jumble of knickknacks including a Presidential Barbie and dusty cans of Alpo and Cheez Whiz.
The cooking is in the hands of George Vetsch, a veteran o... Read more >
Gala Chef Q & A: JBF Award Winner Aarón Sánchez
JBF Award Winner Aarón Sánchez, Mestizo, Leawood, KS
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
Fried chicken.
What’s your favorite movie, and why?
Rocky, because it’s all about the underdog.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
My last great meal was at chef John Besh’s restaurant August in New Orleans. We had just about everything on the menu, but the real standouts were the potato gnocchi, the seafood, and all the meat dishes.
What’s the dish you’re most proud of?
The grilled mahi-mahi tacos at Mestizo.
What’s your earliest food memory?
Making tortillas with my mom when I was 12.
What do you eat for breakfast?
Eggs Benedict. My favorite is with Swiss chard and smoked bacon.
What’s your favorite healthy food?... Read more >
Gala Chef Q & A: Melissa Perello
Melissa Perello, Frances, San Francisco
What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?
Ice cream and doughnuts.
Describe the last great meal you ate.
Some memorable dishes of late: tiger salad from Mission Chinese, chicory salad with dates and crispy chicken skin at Rich Table, smoked potatoes with pickled ramp mayo at Bar Tartine,a guinea hen dumpling at State Bird Provisions, yogurt at Manka’s Inverness Lodge, and a Meyer lemon semifreddo that my pastry chef made.
What’s the dish you’re most proud of?
I like to think that I dominate in the whole soup category.
What’s your favorite movie snack?
Salty buttered popcorn (homemade when possible).
What’s your earliest food memory?
My grandmother’s peanut brittle.
What do you eat for breakfast?
Does coffee count?
What’s your f... Read more >
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