Frank Bonanno up for James Beard Award as Outstanding Restaurateur

The James Beard Foundation has just released the semifinalists list for its 2009 restaurant and chef awards. And Frank Bonanno -- of Mizuna, Luca D'Italia and Osteria Marco (and now Bones, which opened at the very end of December) fame -- is one of twenty people up for Outstanding Restaurateur.No...

By Patricia Calhoun

February 13, 2009

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The James Beard Foundation has just released the semifinalists list for its 2009 restaurant and chef awards. And Frank Bonanno -- of Mizuna, Luca D'Italia and Osteria Marco (and now Bones, which opened at the very end of December) fame -- is one of twenty people up for Outstanding Restaurateur.

No Coloradan made the Outstanding Chef semifinalist list, and there's no Colorado place included on the Outstanding Restaurant list, or for Best New Restaurant.

But Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, of Duo (and Aix's soon-to-be replacement), is included in the Oustanding Pastry Chef lineup. Regionally, in the Best Chef:Southwest category, Colorado's represented by Mark Fischer (Restaurant Six89), Ryan Hardy (Montagna at the Little Nell in Aspen), Kelly Liken (Kelly Liken in Vail) and Alex Seidel of Fruition in Denver.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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