List of Best Chefs

The secret of being the best Chef is cook food that’s personal, creative and delicious. Work as a Head of the Kitchen for not more than 5 years. Keep an eye open for editor to visit anonymously and the prize; one of the winners for 2009 Nate Appleman still has a copy of 1998 “Best New Chefs” story that inspired him.

The reason why the above mentioned Chefs won the Best Chefs awards are as follows:

1. Nate Appleman: He won because at his two Bay area Restaurants he uses exceptional ingredients especially House butchered meat for his Italian menu.
1. Bryan Caswell : He won as he sources an array of seafood and then prepares it using techniques he has mastered cooking around the world.
1. Vinny Dotolo with Jon Shook: They won because of the innovative no-holds-barred meat-centric restaurant in LA for the fried chicken Livers.
1. Kelly English: He won for preparing stunning, seasonal dishes he has been reinventing French-Creole standouts, like Natchitoches meat pies.
1. Mark Fuller: He won for his experience that He has gained from Northwest’s best chefs, and he prepares delicious dishes of his own.
1. Linton Hopkins: He won for his style in southern cooking; He prepares these at amazing places; the elegant Restaurant Eugene and the superfun Holeman and Finch.
1. Christopher Kostow: He won because of his amazing superlative modern Californian menu.
1. Jehangir Mehta: He won because He expertly prepares food that’s both ambitious and delicious.
1. Barry Maiden: He won because of the combined blend of ingredients from New England and the South with French techniques prepares amazing not so traditional dishes.
1. Naomi Pomeroy: She won because her dishes have the major focus on the local ingredients that are accessible and prepares these in style that she calls “refined French grandmother”.

These are the best Chefs who have been awarded for their uniqueness in preparing the best and tasty dishes.