Outstanding Wine Program: Canlis, Seattle Outstanding Service: Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, NY Outstanding Restaurateur: Stephen Starr, Starr Restaurants, Philadelphia (Le Coucou, Serpico, Upland, and others) Outstanding Restaurant: Topolobampo, Chicago Outstanding Pastry Chef: Ghaya Oliveira, Daniel, NYC Outstanding Chef: Michael Solomonov, Zahav, Philadelphia Outstanding Bar Program: Arnaud’s French 75 Bar, New Orleans Outstanding Baker: Mark Furstenberg, Bread Furst, Washington, D.C. The crowd got to feast once the final awards had been announced.Ģ017 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards Winners For a complete list of semifinalists - basically this year’s losers - announced back in February, visit the James Beard site. The complete list of winners is below and includes the “America’s Classic” winners - for restaurants with timeless appeal, beloved in their regions for quality food that reflects the character of its community (and are usually not too expensive).
Chicago’s Rick Bayless won “Outstanding Restaurant” for Topolobampo (hard to believe he didn’t win that one already), and Dan Barber got up on stage and made another smart speech after Blue Hill at Stone Barns (in Pocantico Hills, NY) won for “Outstanding Service.” At New York’s Daniel, Ghaya Oliveira took top “Top Pastry Chef” honors. Some well-known restaurants - many that seem like they must have already won every honor possible - found new awards to win. Arnaud’s French 75 Bar won “Outstanding Bar Program” and Zachary Engel won “Rising Star Chef of the Year” for his work at Shaya.
New Orleans finally got some of the love it has long deserved. Stephen Starr, who runs more than 30 eateries in five states, not only won “best restaurateur” (after years of being on the ballot and losing), but his new eatery, Le Coucou in New York, also won best new restaurant, which basically guarantees that reservations will be impossible to score for another year or so. If you want to know where to eat across the USA, the Beard winners list would be a fine place to start, and possibly more reliable than the Michelin guide (full disclosure: I used to be on the James Beard Restaurant & Chef committee). Some highlights below: And like every year (the awards began in 1990), there were big winners and losers, tremendous surprises and a whole lot of heartfelt, this-medal-really-belongs-to-someone-else, thank-you speeches. All this squeezed into a tiny first project for this relatively new practice specifically formed to design bridges anywhere in the world.Last night the winners of the James Beard Awards - the Oscars of fine dining - were announced at the Lyric Opera of Chicago building before a crowd of nearly 2,000 gourmands and industry insiders. The project displays a masterly control of form and function, with pinches of references from Borromini, Palladio and Stirling. It will no doubt feed the soul and restore the spirits of its occupants. At all turns the occupant is drawn to framed woodland views.Īlthough small the building exploits a rare opportunity for experimentation beyond normal conventions and is already an extremely popular destination, now fully booked in its first season. Here also deep voids between outer (variously clad) timber and inner timber linings are punctuated by openings and niches to create an effective impression of thick walled solidity in defiance of the lightweight construction. The heart of the plan is a rotunda, which holds the support spaces much as a Scottish castle keep does with thick outer walls housing support spaces such as bedroom, kitchen, toilet and bathroom spaces. The treehouse is structurally independent of the host English oak tree that it encompasses. Built by a self-build team of skilled furniture makers and green wood craftsmen including the client and his family members, using traditional methods applied to contemporary building design. This treehouse built in the Dorsetshire woodland is the latest and most ambitious design to this woodland enterprise to date.
The initial view is both inviting and exciting, through the front door and one is into a different world. The treehouse is set deep in the woodland and an atmosphere of anticipation builds up as one reaches the setting for the treehouse, leaving the footpath and setting foot onto the timber deck of the raised walkway then onto the suspension bridge that leads to a charred oak door with a reclaimed brass porthole set within. We approached this house from the top of the hill walking down to the woodland below. Awards RIBA South West Award 2017 and RIBA South West Small Project of the Year 2017
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