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Central's chef de cuisine Cedric Maupillier (left) and head chef Michel Richard receive the James Beard Award for best new restaurant |
While reality fans and food enthusiasts have spent the past week anticipating tonight's Top Chef season finale, the James Beard Foundation - the Academy of the food world - spent Sunday night announcing their picks for top chefs and restaurants of 2007.
Once again, the D.C.-area's nominees provided a strong showing this year by bringing home awards in several categories. Chef Michel Richard's Central won the title of Best New Restaurant. In the Mid-Atlantic regional awards, CityZen's Eric Ziebold beat out fellow local chef Cathal Armstrong to win Best Chef. Lastly, Silver Spring's Terry Theise took the Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional Award.
Special recognition goes out to Johnny Monis and José Andrés for being nominated this year. If it's any consolation for Chef Andrés, we'll be watching Bravo's A-List Awards Thursday night to see if he can win there.
A full list of winners is available on the James Beard Foundation website. Awards season continues with next month's RAMMYs.
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It is a damn good restaurant, and you can actually get in, unlike places like Mini Bar.
it's good to see burl ives is happy and doing well.
watch out cedric! a borg disguised as a deranged santa claus is trying to ingest your body!
ah, i'm just jealous noone has taken me to his restaurant yet.
weirdly, i used to LOVE burl ives. did anyone ever see that bizarre disney movie called summer magic that involved burl singing to a catepillar? was my mom the only one who used to sit me in front of obscure disney movies?
peta note: i don't think any catepillars were ingested or harmed in the filming of the film.
Central is excellent. Try the 72-hour short ribs.
Little known fact: the song "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" was based on Burl Ives albums. The insane dialog ("I told you I'd shoot! But, you didn't believe me! Why didn't you believe me?!" and "I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!") was cribbed from his role in the movie "The Big Country."
I had lunch at Sent-Trawl. I wasn't that impressed. The food was ok, and the atmosphere sucked.
I think there were better, less hyped, restaurants that opened here over the last year. Personally, along the same bistro front, I enjoyed the food and the atmosphere at Brasserie Beck a lot more than Central.
Ironic that importer Terry Thiese is based in Silver Spring. The Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control makes sure that most of Thiese's selections aren't available there.