Just like last year, I’ve added all the Beard award nominees to my restaurant map. I added 14 categories which includes 71 nominations. The map you see includes 68 restaurants. I think the discrepancy is a result of individual restaurants earning multiple nominations. I didn’t double check. Categories I omitted include best restaurateur, best service, best wine, best wine and liquor professional…. I included all the regional categories, outstanding chef, outstanding restaurant and rising star. I was going to tell you how many restaurants were carried over from 2008 but Tagzania failed at giving me that answer and I don’t want to count by hand. Over course of entering these restaurants, I got the impression that the number of restaurants that carried over was high. In fact, I think every regional category had either three or four repeaters.











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