For the second year in a row, St. Louis’ Gerard Craft has been named as a finalist in the James Beard Foundation Awards, the food world’s highest honors. Finalists were announced this morning at the Palace Café in New Orleans.
Craft – the man behind Niche Restaurant and Taste by Niche in Benton Park and Brasserie by Niche in the Central West End – is competing for the title of Best Chef Midwest. The foundation will announce award winners at a gala ceremony May 3 in New York’s Lincoln Center.
Also included among the semifinalists for Best Chef Midwest was Joshua Galliano of Monarch Restaurant and Wine Bar in Maplewood.
This article appears in Mar 1-31, 2010.