Via Food & Wine's brand new iPhone app, in addition to sources at the magazine, Feast can confirm that the following chefs will be named 2010 Best New Chefs at a ceremony tonight:
2010 F&W Best New Chefs
Roy Choi, Kogi BBQ truck, Los Angeles
Matt Lightner, Castagna, Portland, OR
Clayton Miller, Trummer's on Main, Clifton, VA
Missy Robbins, A Voce, New York City
Jonathon Sawyer, The Greenhouse Tavern, Cleveland, OH
Alex Seidel, Fruition, Denver
Mike Sheerin, Blackbird, Chicago
John Shields, Town House, Chilhowie, VA
Jason Stratton, Spinasse, Seattle, WA
James Syhabout, Commis, Oakland, CA
Check this space later tonight for color from tonight's festivities, which begin at 7:00 PM at the Four Seasons in Manhattan. Official announcement follows. Also check out our videos of two winners as they learn their fates:
—Food & Wine Taps Missy Robbins for 2010 Best New Chef Honors [Feast TV]
—Roy Choi Named 2010 Food & Wine Best New Chef [Feast TV]
FOOD & WINE NAMES BEST NEW CHEFS IN AMERICA 2010
22nd Annual Award Highlights 10 Rising Culinary Talents in New York, Chicago,Seattle, Los Angeles, Virginia & More
Magazine Launches First-Ever iPhone App: Best New Chefs Past and PresentNew York, NY (April 6, 2010) – FOOD & WINE Editor in Chief Dana Cowin announced the magazine’s highest honor, the FOOD & WINE Best New Chef award, at a celebration at The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City. Launched in 1988, this annual award recognizes up-and-coming chefs with an innovative style and a distinctive vision creating exceptionally delicious food. The 2010 winners will be featured in the July issue of FOOD & WINE and will travel to Colorado for the 28th annual FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen, June 18 to 20. For more on the winners, go to foodandwine.com/bestnewchefs or download the iPhone application on iTunes.
"This year we have one of the most exciting rosters of Best New Chefs ever,” Cowin says. “They represent every frontier of cooking in America today, from an avant-garde chef in a remote area of Virginia to the mastermind behind the Korean taco-truck boom in Los Angeles. The future of cooking in this country is in excellent hands."
At the party, alumni F&W Best New Chefs Andrew Carmellini of Locanda Verde (‘00), Paul Liebrandt of Corton (’09), Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park (’05), Dan Silverman of The Standard Grill (’97) and Gabriel Kreuther of The Modern (’03) created signature dishes. Also, Top Chef season 6 winner Michael Voltaggio prepared tastings for the celebration. All-Clad, Beringer, FIJI
Water, Infiniti, Patron and Stella Artois sponsored the evening.The F&W Best New Chefs are chosen after a months-long selection process. The magazine worked with restaurant critics, food writers and other trusted experts around the country to identify outstanding chefs who have been in charge of a kitchen for less than five years. Then the editors travel, incognito, to taste the food themselves.
As America’s talent-seeking epicurean magazine, FOOD & WINE has awarded the Best New Chef title to such luminaries-in-the-making as Thomas Keller (‘88), Nobu Matsuhisa (‘89) and Tom Colicchio (‘91). For a complete guide to two decades of legendary Best New Chefs, download the new F&W iPhone app or visit foodandwine.com/bestnewchefs. To go behind the scenes at the party follow @fandw on Twitter.
