Four Alaskan chefs have been cooking up something special recently... James Beard Award nominations! Check out which restaurants and chefs received the special accolade this year.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaskans are once again making their presence known on the national culinary scene, with three chefs and one restaurateur receiving“Alaska in general is a lot more cosmopolitan from the aspect of we like quality,” said Laile Fairbairn, Managing Member for Snow City Cafe, Spenard Roadhouse, South Restaurant and Coffee House and Crush Bistro. “And we’ve seen other places and we’ve chosen to live here because of how beautiful it is.
“The fish here is the best in the world,” Trafton said. “I’m really passionate about cooking fish and I over the years, I’ve been in business since 2017, I’ve like cultivated relationships with fishermen. And that’s really fantastic. Because I can get, like the highest quality fish with not too much difficulty.”
“It feels amazing. It really does,” Bentley said. “Especially two years in a row. It just, it just shows that we really, really take our craft seriously here and we really appreciate bringing in high-quality ingredients, making everything from scratch and doing it justice.”“We always feel being a local, you know, small town person from Alaska, we kind of seem like we get overlooked sometimes — and it just shows that we don’t,” Bentley said.
“We’ve got a really good staff here and we got a really good front of house that makes people feel welcome whenever they walk in the door,” said Schooler. “So I’d say just a good team effort we have here really kind of leads to any kind of recognition you get.”
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