Next's dining room. (Photo: Next)
Last year, the actual James Beard award ceremonies were pretty dismal for Chicago, so here's hoping we'll fare better in 2012. New this year is a category for Outstanding Bar Program, in which two Chicago spots were tapped; no Chicagoan included in the Outstanding Wine & Spirits Professional category.
Charlie Trotter (Charlie Trotter's) is named Humanitarian of the Year and Grant Achatz (Alinea, The Aviary, Next) is one of the 2012 Who's Who Inductees.
Here are the Chicago finalists; the Restaurant and Chef Award winners will be announced in New York on May 7:
Best New Restaurant
Next
Outstanding Bar Program
The Aviary
The Violet Hour
Outstanding Chef
Paul Kahan, Blackbird
Outstanding Pastry Chef
Mindy Segal, Mindy’s HotChocolate
Outstanding Service
Spiaggia
Topolobampo
Rising Star Chef of the Year
Dave Beran, Next
Best Chef: Great Lakes
Michael Carlson, Schwa
Stephanie Izard, Girl & the Goat
Bruce Sherman, North Pond
Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia
Here's the official list of James Beard finalists.
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