Food & Wine’s The People’s Best New Chef 2013 Nominations for Rhode Island Chefs Nemo Bolin and Benjamin Sukle
Food & Wine has announced the nominees for this year’s The People’s Best New Chef and in the New England region the nominees include Rhode Island Chefs Nemo Bolin of Cook & Brown Public House and Benjamin Sukle of The Dorrance. This is Bolin’s third nomination for the award and Sukle’s second. Food & Wine nominates 100 [...]
RI Restaurants and Chefs Named to 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards Semifinalists List
The 2013 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Award Semifinalists were announced today and a number of Rhode Island chefs and restaurants are included on this year’s list. The semifinalists in our area are: Outstanding Bar Program: Cook & Brown Public House Outstanding Service: Persimmon Best Chef: Northeast: Matt Jennings of Farmstead Inc. Champe Speidel [...]
R.I. DEM News Release: DEM Agriculture Chief Ayars receives Award of Merit from RINLA
For Release: January 23, 2013 Contact: Gail Mastrati 222-4700 ext. 2402 DEM AGRICULTURE CHIEF KEN AYARS RECEIVES MERIT AWARD FROM RI NURSERY AND LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION PROVIDENCE – Ken Ayars, chief of the Department of Environmental Management’s Division of Agriculture, received the Award of Merit from the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association (RINLA) at the [...]
Chef Jamie Bissonnette Wins Cochon 555 Boston 2012
Chef Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa and Toro in Boston was the winner of the fourth annual Cochon 555 Boston competition. The event, held this year at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Boston was even more over-the-top than years past with a packed ballroom of people eating outstanding pork dishes from Bissonnette along with the four other competitors, Chefs [...]
March of Dimes Rhode Island Names Chef Jonathan Cambra Their 2012 Signature Chef
Not everyone likes surprises, but when leaders from March of Dimes Rhode Island recently showed up on the doorsteps of the Boat House in Tiverton to surprise the restaurant’s Executive Chef Jonathan Cambra with an important announcement, cheers and elation ensued. That’s because Chef Cambra was named Signature Chef of the 11th Annual March of [...]
Chef Matt Jennings Nominated for 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards Best Chef Northeast (UPDATED)
For a second year in a row Rhode Island can claim a James Beard Foundation Award Nominee in the category of Best Chef Northeast: Chefs Matt and Kate Jennings of Farmstead & La Laiterie in Providence. The Jennings were nominated alongside Jamie Bissonnette of Toro and Coppa in Boston, Tim Cushman of O Ya in [...]
News Bites: Gracie’s, The Capital Grille/Share Our Strength, Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ and Temple Downtown
Gracie’s Congratulations to Gracie’s restaurant in Providence on receiving the AAA Four Diamond Award. Gracie’s is one of only three restaurants in Rhode Island to earn the award in 2011 and one of only 754 restaurants in the nation to hold the AAA Four Diamond rating. The AAA Four Diamond Award was presented to Gracie’s [...]
Three Rhode Island Chefs Nominated for The People’s Best New Chef 2012
Clearly it’s award season, and the food world isn’t getting left out. The James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists were announced two weeks ago and Food & Wine magazine also awards very prestigious honors to chefs and restaurants. Rhode Island’s Melissa Denmark from Gracie’s was nominated in the magazine’s first People’s Best New Pastry Chef and now [...]
RI Chefs and Restaurants Stand Out on 2012 James Beard Awards Semifinalists List
UPDATED (more comments below) The James Beard Foundation 2012 Restaurant and Chef Award Semifinalists were announced this morning and a number of Rhode Island chefs and restaurants are included on this year’s list. The semifinalists in our area are: Best New Restaurant: The Dorrance Outstanding Bar Program: Cook & Brown Public House Rising Star Chef [...]
News Bites: Hemenway’s, Temple Downtown and Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro
Three restaurants in the Providence area have released news updates. Below is information direct from Hemenway’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar, Temple Downtown and Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro. Hemenway’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar Corresponding with the photo to the right: Hemenway’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar recently donated $7,268.00 to the Ronald McDonald House [...]
