SANTÉ MAGAZINE NAMES WINNERS OF 2005 SANTÉ RESTAURANT AWARDS
September 1, 2005-Santé, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals, is pleased to announce winners of the 2005 Santé Restaurant Awards. Now in its eighth year, the 2005 Santé Awards program has been expanded with a new category for individuals-the Service Professional Award-as well as updated categories for culinary judging that allow winners for Innovative Cuisine, Traditional Cuisine, and Sustainable Cuisine. Altogether, this year's awards will honor more than 70 professionals in the restaurant industry.
Sponsored by the Allied Domecq Wines USA Academy of Wine and hosted by the Monterey County Vintners Association and the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance, the Santé Awards program is the only peer-judged restaurant-and-hospitality program in North America. The awards include four distinct programs: Service Professional, Culinary Hospitality, Wine Hospitality, and Spirits Hospitality. The culinary awards are granted in three subcategories: Traditional, Innovative, and Sustainable. The wine awards are also conferred in three subcategories: Fine-Dining, Bistro, and Hotel/Resort. And the spirits awards are given in two subcategories: Restaurant Bar and Hotel/Resort Bar. The Service Professional Award is not subcategorized.
This year's panel of top professional judges are Michael Bonadies, partner of Myriad Restaurant Group; Peter Cassell, general manager of Lever House and Lure Fishbar; Virginia Philip, chef and sommelier at The Breakers Hotel; Adrian Hoffman, group chef for Lark Creek Restaurant Group; Michael Schlow, executive chef and co-owner of Great Bay, Radius, and Via Matta; Ivy Stark, executive chef for Zocola; Rebecca Chapa, DWS and CWE; Leonard Logan, proprietor of Elizabeth's Café & Winery; Greg Harrington, MS, former beverage-division manager for B. R. Guest Inc.; Robert Plotkin, proprietor of Bar Media; Doug Frost, MS, MW, wine consultant and writer; and Tony Abou-Ganim, proprietor of The Modern Mixologist.
Sant 3; Award winners are chosen on a variety of criteria and represent a broad spectrum of restaurant-and-hospitality-industry professionals: owners, chefs, food-and-beverage managers, general managers, and wine-and-bar professionals from small, independent restaurants as well as international hotels and resorts. What they have in common is a passion for their work and a commitment to excellence. Winners will be honored for their achievements at this year's Santé Restaurant Awards festivities, to be held October 29 through November 1, 2005, at The Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa on Cannery Row in Monterey Bay, California, where they will also receive commemorative plaques from Santé and the awards' sponsors.
2005 SANTÉ RESTAURANT AWARDS WINNERS
Culinary Hospitality Awards, Honoring Excellence in Wine and Spirits Cooking:
Grand Awards
Culinary Hospitality Restaurant of the Year
Cetrella Bistro and Café, Half Moon Bay, California
Culinary Professional of the Year
Edward G. Leonard, CMC AAC, team management/chef, ACF Culinary Team USA
Regional Winners
Traditional
Il Capriccio, Waltham, Massachusetts
Andale, Washington, DC
New Orleans Grill Room, Windsor Court Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sparacinos Ristorante, Henderson, North Carolina
Andrae's, Boise, Idaho
Innovative
Hemingway's Restaurant, Killington, Vermont
New River, Providence, Rhode Island
The Bernards Inn, Bernardsville, New Jersey
Savoy, Asheville, North Carolina
Restaurant August, New Orleans, Louisiana
NoMI, Park Hyatt Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, Fort Worth, Texas
The Ventana Room, Tucson, Arizona
Grand Café, San Francisco, California
Rosemary's Restaurant, Las Vegas, Nevada
Sustainable
Wheatleigh, Lenox, Massachusetts
The Tilghman Island Inn, Tilghman Island, Maryland
Soby's New South Cuisine, Greenville, South Carolina
The Oceanaire Seafood Room, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Restaurant at Wente Vineyards, Livermore, California
Canlis Restaurant, Seattle, Washington
Wine Hospitality Awards, Honoring Excellence in Wine Hospitality:
Grand Awards
Wine Hospitality Restaurant of the Year
Canlis, Seattle, Washington
Wine Professional of the Year
Debbie Zachareas, Bacar Restaurant and Wine Salon: wine director, partner
Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant: partner, Ferry Godmother
Regional Winners
Fine Dining
Il Capriccio, Waltham, Massachusetts
Barbetta Restaurant, New York City
Ristorante Panorama, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Port Land Grille, Wilmington, North Carolina
Charlie Trotter's, Chicago, Illinois
Swingos on the Lake, Lakewood, Ohio
Brennan's of Houston, Houston, Texas
Prima, Walnut Creek, California
Seablue Restaurant, Las Vegas, Nevada
Bistro
Rustic Kitchen, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Maxie's Supper Club & Oyster Bar, Ithaca, New York
The Greenbrier Sporting Club, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Harry Caray's Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Backstreet Café, Houston, Texas
Divino Wine & Cheese Bistro, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cetrella Bistro & Café, Half Moon, California
Hotel/Resort Fine Dining
Wheatleigh, Lenox, Massachusetts
The Bernards Inn, Bernardsville, New Jersey
Horizon's, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
Ritz-Carlton Hotel-Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
NoMI, Park Hyatt Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The State Room, East Lansing, Michigan
The Ventana Room, Tucson, Arizona
Studio, Montage Resort & Spa, Laguna Beach, California
DW's Restaurant, Genoa, Nevada
Spirits Hospitality Awards, Honoring Excellence in Spirits Hospitality:
Grand Awards
Spirits Hospitality Restaurant of the Year
Rosemary's Restaurant, Las Vegas, Nevada
Spirits Professional of the Year
Dale DeGroff, master mixologist, author of The Craft of the Cocktail
Regional Awards
Hotel/Resort Bar
Wheatleigh, Lenox, Massachusetts
The Left Bank, Duck, North Carolina
NoMI Lounge, Park Hyatt Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Mission Inn, Riverside, California
Petrossian Bar, Las Vegas, Nevada
Restaurant Bar
33 Restaurant & Lounge, Boston, Massachusetts
Andale, Washington, DC
The Bombay Club, New Orleans, Louisiana
The St. Paul Grill, St. Paul, Minnesota
Brennan's of Houston, Houston, Texas
Cyrus, Healdsburg, California
NobHill at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
Service Professional Award, Honoring Individuals that Exhibit a High Level of Professional Achievement in Food, Wine, and Spirits Service:
Regional Awards
Jeein Ha, Min Ghung Asian Bistro, Glastonbury, Connecticut
Terri Baldwin, The Bernards Inn, Bernardsville, New Jersey
Marc Sauter, Todd Jurich's Bistro, Norfolk, Virginia
Matt Tidd, Savoy, Asheville, North Carolina
David Pettinger, Andrae's, Boise, Idaho
Luis Cano, Duck Club Grill at Monterey, California
Shayn Bjornholm, Canlis, Seattle, Washington
The 2005 Santé Restaurant Awards are sponsored by the Allied Domecq Wines USA Academy of Wine. Founded in 2003, the academy is designed to help industry businesses that recognize the need for product knowledge and skills but don't necessarily have enough time or resources to fully nurture them. The academy provides practical and proven business solutions through customized wine and service education for all tiers of the wine and hospitality industry and empowers organizations to proactively anticipate, recognize, and fulfill customers' needs.
Founded by Mark Vaughan and Chris Costello in 1996, Santé is published by On-Premise Communications, Inc., in Bennington, Vermont. Now in its ninth year of publication, the magazine reaches 55,000 upscale casual to fine-dining establishments in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. More than 200,000 restaurant professionals read each of the magazine's nine issues per year.
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