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Three Minneapolis restaurants are up for James Beard awards
And the James Beard Award winner is …
The honors, among the nation’s most prestigious in the culinary industry, will be announced Monday. The Twin Cities has three nominees up for awards.
Oro by Nixta is one of ten finalists up for Best New Restaurant. Oro’s chefs and co-owners are Kate and Gustavo Romero. The northeast Minneapolis eatery highlights Mexican heirloom corn.
Also nominated: Christina Nguyen of Hai Hai in northeast Minneapolis and Ann Ahmed of Khaluna in East Harriet. Both are nominated for Best Chef of the Midwest.
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Ahmed told MPR News host Tom Crann she has worked hard in all of her restaurants since she opened her first one nearly 20 years ago.
“This has been awesome because it’s been a recognition not for myself but my whole team,” she said.
Chef Ann Ahmed at Gai Noi in Loring Park in Minneapolis.
Photo by Monique Sourinho, courtesy of Tiffany Gerber
Ahmed specializes in Laotian food. She is also chef and owner of Gai Noi in Loring Park and Lat14 Asian Eatery in Golden Valley.
Nguyen serves Southeast Asian street food at Hai Hai in northeast Minneapolis, but the self-taught chef first opened Hola Arepa in south Minneapolis.
Nguyen told Cathy Wurzer earlier this year that she doesn’t do her work for awards, but she is “super honored” to be nominated again. She was nominated in 2019 and 2020 for Best Chef of the Midwest.
“But it is absolutely a nice acknowledgment to have, for me and our entire team, who work so hard all the time,” Nguyen said. Hai Hai has gotten busier since her nomination, she added.
Hai Hai restaurant owner Christina Nguyen says her bar welcomes a diversity of patrons through her takes on Southeast Asian food and drink.
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On Oro by Nixta’s Instagram page a few days ago, “Team Tortilla,” presumably the restaurant’s staff, took over the account to shower praise on the Romeros.”
“Corngratulations chef y chefona. And mil gracias – for giving so many of us a place to belong and feel at home. We’re so proud of you.”
The 2024 Restaurant and Chef Award announcements will be streamed here beginning at 5:30 p.m. CST.
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Extra Minneapolis police patrols planned for synagogues after Temple Israel gets threats
“It’s not progressive nor inclusive to target any group of people for hate. It is ignorant. And every one of us, regardless of your ideology or background, should be calling that out as problematic, as hateful and as not having a place in our city.”
Temple Israel Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman said she is sending a message to her congregation “to assure them that we truly feel proud to be Jewish, proud to be a Jewish community in Minneapolis, and proud to have a heritage that is strong and vibrant and beautiful.”
“Every religious community should be able to worship without fear, especially on the holiest days of their year,” she said. “A threat to any religious community is a threat to all of us.”
O’Hara said he expects protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza will continue and that those First Amendment activities will be protected.
“However, we absolutely will not tolerate threats of violence against members of our Jewish community,” he said. “We will not tolerate acts of destruction against property in this city, and we want everyone to know that we will ensure that all houses of worship for people of all faiths will be places where they can be safe.”
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