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 [...]
The Dorrance in Providence is one of Bon Appétit’s Top 50 Best New Restaurants of 2012
The accolades continue to pour in for The Dorrance. Those of us who’ve eaten there know it’s one of the best new places to eat and drink in Rhode Island but now Bon Appétit magazine’s Foodist, Andrew Knowlton, has chose the Providence restaurant as one of the Top 50 Best New Restaurants in the country. This [...]
News Bites: Travel + Leisure 2012 “America’s Favorite Cities” Voting, Summer at Castle Hill Inn, and Food TV Comes to Federal Hill’s Marrocco Group
Travel + Leisure 2012 “America’s Favorite Cities” Voting It’s that time of year again. Voting for the 2012 “America’s Favorite Cities” poll has begun on the Travel + Leisure site. According to the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, “Providence did extremely well in this survey last year, earning #2 Food Destination and #1 burger rankings, as [...]
News Bites: The Sunnyside Daytime Dining in Yankee magazine, Mill’s Tavern Turns Ten and Save Chocolateville at AAA
The Sunnyside Daytime Dining The March/April 2012 issue of Yankee magazine features “New England’s Best Breakfasts” with one restaurant from each of the six New England states being chosen for the story. Yankee‘s favorite in Rhode Island is The Sunnyside Daytime Dining in Warren. Jocelyn Ruggiero wrote about her experience at Chef Joe Simone’s beautiful breakfast-and-lunch gem [...]
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 [...]
Vote for Gracie’s Melissa Denmark in Food & Wine’s “People’s Best New Pastry Chef” Award
Food & Wine magazine has named Gracie’s Pastry Chef Melissa Denmark one of the 50 best new pastry chefs in the country, by nominating her for their first-ever The People’s Best New Pastry Chef Award. Now it’s up to the people who have experienced Denmark’s great talent at turning out world-class desserts to vote online [...]
Chef Matt Jennings in New England vs. New York chefs Super Bowl bet
Chef Matt Jennings of Farmstead & La Laiterie in Providence joins New England Patriots’ fans Chefs Jamie Bissonette, Tiffani Faison and Gabriel Frasca in putting their pride where their mouths are in a big Super Bowl bet against New York Giants’ fans Chefs Harold Dieterle, Lee Anne Wong and Michael Ferraro. The trash talk begin [...]
Providence Ranks Number Three on T+L’s America’s Best Cities for Foodies
Travel + Leisure magazine’s America’s Favorite Cities reader survey once again puts Providence in the top five, this time in the category of America’s Best Cities for Foodies. Highlighted in the posting were Chez Pascal, Nick’s on Broadway and RI seafood pioneers Trace and Trust. Previous top fives were in the categories Best Burgers and [...]
Yankee Magazine Can’t Get Enough of Rhode Island
There’s always some mention of Rhode Island in each issue of Yankee, since it is subtitled “New England’s Magazine.” But the July/August 2011 issue can’t seem to spotlight enough of the Ocean State, especially the South County region. Christine Chitnis author of the recently released book Markets of New England, writes about “The Best 5 [...]
Chef Nemo Bolin Highlights Rhode Island in Travel + Leisure
For the second time in less than a month Travel + Leisure magazine mentions the excellent food available in Rhode Island. This time it’s in a story in the July 2011 issue of the magazine called “United States of Deliciousness” wherein 51 chefs from around the country talk abut their favorite local spots. Representing Rhode [...]
