Email Author Jason Sheehan

Awards

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published October 22, 2009

  "Mourning"

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published February 19, 2009

  "Wonderland"

• 2010 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published May 7, 2009

  "White on White"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published December 13, 2007

  "After Dark"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published September 13, 2007

  "Holiday"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published June 2, 2005

  "Lost and Found"

• 2007 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 5, 2006

  "Mama's House"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 6, 2006

  "Sum More, Please"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 1, 2006

  "Wedded Bliss"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 5, 2006

  "Mama's House"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 24, 2005

  "Kokoro Bebop"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 10, 2005

  "Z Whiz"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published February 17, 2005

  "Girl Trouble"

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2006 Stories by Jason Sheehan

• Surprise!

  published August 31, 2006

  At first, the most surprising thing about Tables is the lines. Big lines that sometimes reach to the door, stretch past it and spill onto... More >>

• Fair Game

  published August 31, 2006

  They're already setting up the road signs, laying out the hurricane fence, rolling in the trailers and cordoning off huge swaths of Civic Center... More >>

• Cherry Tomato

  published August 31, 2006

  Tables (see review) is a great neighborhood restaurant -- one of those places you dream of... More >>

• Booty Call

  published August 24, 2006

  Lung cancer has never been sexier. I'm sitting on the patio at Sketch Food and Wine -- lounging on the patio, actually, which... More >>

• Ground Zero

  published August 24, 2006

  Larimer Square is hot -- not just as a fine-dining center, but also as a source of great restaurant gossip. And even in these scorching summer... More >>

• Mel’s Restaurant and Bar

  published August 24, 2006

  Wine bars come and wine bars go. Like Sketch (see review, page 53), they often enter the scene with a splash -- but then, crippled by the... More >>

• Floating Belly Up

  published August 17, 2006

  Halfway through my lunch at Islamorada Fish Company, it occurs to me that this is the worst meal I've had in five years. I've eaten a... More >>

• Come Fly With Me

  published August 17, 2006

  United Airlines and Trader Vic's recently announced a partnership deal in which Vic -- or at least Vic's minions -- will provide the... More >>

• The Kitchen

  published August 17, 2006

  I'm all for consistency in restaurants, and grouse loudly (and too long, some might say) about restaurants where the organic squab in styrofoam... More >>

• Beyond Borders

  published August 10, 2006

  I can still miss it something awful, but there are now times when I'm glad I'm no longer a chef. When it's 103 degrees on a Friday afternoon and I... More >>

• An Open Book

  published August 10, 2006

  When the people behind Aji (see review) decided they wanted a second restaurant -- or, in... More >>

• Opal

  published August 10, 2006

  What kills me about Opal is that it's not necessarily a bad restaurant; it's just so much less of a great restaurant than it once was. When I... More >>

• Words Fail

  published August 3, 2006

  We'd already ordered drinks, Laura and I, and were just settling into the purple banquette behind a scratched black cafe table at Prima,... More >>

• Cleansing the Palette

  published August 3, 2006

  There's Restaurant Kevin Taylor at Hotel Teatro (see Second Helping),... More >>

• Restaurant Kevin Taylor

  published August 3, 2006

  Toby, my waiter at Restaurant Kevin Taylor, is very excited. When he hands me the menu, the look on his face is one of barely contained joy. He... More >>

• A World of Discovery

  published July 27, 2006

  Not every country under the sun deserves its own pizza, but don't tell that to John Pool. In his mind, there's no land too far-flung, no cuisine... More >>

• Larry's Place

  published July 27, 2006

  Larry Herz is adamant. "No," he says. "No. You gotta go back and check what I said. Read your column. I said, 'I will never open a... More >>

• Two-Fisted Mario’s

  published July 27, 2006

  Two-Fisted Mario's must drive John Pool nuts. Here he's doing his international thing, throwing down the masala pizzas and the lobster pizzas and... More >>

• Endless Summer

  published July 20, 2006

  For barbecue fanatics, summer is like one lengthy treasure hunt, a months-long stretch when, every weekend, the faithful can pile into their cars... More >>

• Get a 'Cue

  published July 20, 2006

  Unlike Cabin Creek Smokehouse BBQ (see review, page 53), Yazoo Barbecue Company is not the kind of place you have to scout out. This... More >>

• Chapter Two BBQ and Grill

  published July 20, 2006

  There was a time when this barbecue joint was one of the best in the city, back when it was known as Chapter One BBQ and Grill (" More >>

• Metamorphosis

  published July 13, 2006

  I've said a lot of nasty things about chain restaurants. I've advocated a boycott of Applebee's (because of my horror of Riblets), asked both God... More >>

• The New Revolution

  published July 13, 2006

  I have fairly low expectations of the business of running restaurants -- understanding all too well the lowest-common-denominator math... More >>

• Pasquini’s Pizzeria

  published July 13, 2006

  Pasquini's is the place you went with your band just before you made it big, where you and your girlfriend ate every Friday night when you were... More >>

• Pancake Apocalypse

  published July 6, 2006

  Jon Schlegel is standing outside the door of his restaurant, Snooze, wondering where the people are. I'm sitting at the counter inside,... More >>