It’s shaping up to be another rough year for Seattle at the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards, without a single one of the city’s eight semifinalists in national categories moving on to the finalists list. In some ways, this looks even worse than last year, when only Archipelago and Atoma represented Seattle in the national categories—Outstanding Hospitality and Best New Restaurant, respectively.
On the other hand, last year Seattle got completely shut out from the regional competition for Best Chef Northwest & Pacific, and this year, two Seattle chefs are in the mix, alongside one chef from Alaska and two from Portland: Johnny Courtney of Atoma and
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