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Restaurants awards

I created a map of 79 of this year’s Beard nominees. The 79 are all of the nominees in the categories that would influence my decision to visit a restaurant. That excludes the two alcohol categories, the service category and the restaurateur category. It includes outstanding chef, outstanding restaurant, new restaurant, all of the [...]

Two Benefit Dinners, Beard Pre-nomination musings

Awesome hot chocolate at Sapore

Chef’s Fantasy Dinner to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at Ritz Carlton Cleveland (Wednesday March 25, 2009) – Upcoming

March 25, 2009 6:30 � 9:30pm : Chef’s Fantasy Dinner to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at the Ritz

Six courses prepared by six different chefs. It’s great to see Chef Matthew Anderson of [...]

Should Chicago be its own category for the Beard Awards?

Or: Why won’t Chicago stop picking on Cleveland?

New York is sui generis. The New York metro area has more than 100% higher population than the Chicago Metro and  Nearly 50% higher than the Los Angeles Metro. New York also has nearly 500% higher foreign tourist visits than Chicago and nearly 200% higher than Los Angeles. [...]