More than 10 Bay Area chefs make James Beard award first cut

San Francisco space cooks and eateries made the primary minimize in all classes within the 2023 prestigious James Beard meals awards.

Why it issues: Successful raises a restaurant’s profile, and all people might use a lift this yr!

Plus: The James Beard awards have been diversifying for just a few years, beginning with the choose lineup and including a targeted funding fund for companies which are majority-owned by Black or Indigenous folks.

Of word: Berkeley’s Cafe Ohlone creators Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino are semifinalists for greatest rising cooks. They name the restaurant “a love track” to their Ohlone tradition.

Particulars: Here is the remainder of our native checklist, plus 10 extra greatest chef nominees:

• Excellent restaurateur: Yuka Ioroi and Kris Toliao, Cassava, San Francisco
• Excellent chef: David Nayfeld, Che Fico, San Francisco
• Excellent restaurant: Mourad, San Francisco
• Finest new restaurant: Birch & Rye, San Francisco
• Excellent bakery: Yasukochi’s Candy Cease, San Francisco
• Excellent pastry chef or baker: Vince Bugtong, Viridian, Oakland

What’s subsequent: Winners are introduced in June.

Flashback: Beard was born 120 years in the past simply up the street in Portland, Ore., the place he reportedly watched Triscuits being made on the 1905 World’s Truthful!