Blogging about his trip to New York last week, MB wraps up his report on Corton, a new place from Drew Nieporent (who last year closed Rubicon, his SF restaurant, partly because, as MB previously reported, he couldn't mark wine up as much here as he can in New York), by saying, "The best deal is the price: the three-course menu is $79, a real bargain in New York ..." Really? A bargain? Even compared with, for example, Wu Liang Ye on 48th, where you can feed two or three people for that money?
Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the
food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated
for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and
Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Douglas Keane
of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David
Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco.
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