As a public service, since 2018, Bham Now has reported monthly Jefferson County Department of Health restaurant scores. See the full list of winners, and other James Beard news, here.ĭisclosure: Some Vox Media staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Foundation Awards. Several Birmingham area restaurants including Automatic Seafood and Oysters in Lakeview, the newly opened COOK OUT and Avondale’s Luna Latin Cuisine received 95 and above on their health inspection scores in January 2021. Outside of the restaurant and chef categories, a New Orleans chef did take home a James Beard Media Award over the weekend: Melissa Martin won for her cookbook, “ Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou,” in the category “U.S. Stuart, Shauna (June 21, 2020) 'Automatic Seafood temporarily closing after staff member tests positive for COVID-19.' The Birmingham News Taylor, Drew (June 16, 2022) 'Birmingham chef Adam Evans looks to new challenges after winning James Beard Award. (Caleb Chauncey/Automatic Seafood) On Monday, June 13, Chef Adam Evans of Automatic Seafood and Oysters joined Birmingham’s growing list of James Beard winners when he brought home the medal for Best ChefSouth category. It’s the first time in 10 years New Orleans has been shut out from the top honors.Īdam Evans, chef of Birmingham, Alabama’s three-year-old Automatic Seafood and Oysters, won best chef, South, and in his acceptance speech credited his first cooking gig in New Orleans with shaping his culinary career: At 21, Evans cooked at Bacco, a former French Quarter restaurant from Ralph and Cindy Brennan, before working with French chef Gerard Maras to open Ralph’s on the Park. James Beard winner of the Best Chef in the South for 2022, Automatic Seafood and Oyster’s Adam Evans. This year, New Orleans had 12 semifinalists across five categories, with six local contenders making the finalist list: Serigne Mbaye, the chef behind Dakar Nola, for emerging chef Blake Aguillard and Trey Smith ( Saint-Germain), Melissa Martin ( Mosquito Supper Club), and Isaac Toups ( Toups’ Meatery) for best chef, South and Brennan’s for outstanding restaurant. No New Orleans chefs or restaurants took home a medal from the James Beard Awards ceremony in Chicago on Monday night, getting shut out of three categories with local finalists, including emerging chef best chef, South and outstanding restaurant - although New Orleans did get a number of shoutouts throughout the livestreamed awards show, including one from the host, chef Kwame Onwuachi, about Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, which earned an America’s classics award from the James Beard Foundation in 2014.
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