SAME Cafe profile wins James Beard Foundation award

Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue stands for So All May Eat, and speaks to the...

By Patricia Calhoun

May 3, 2010

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Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs.

The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue stands for So All May Eat, and speaks to the couple's desire to serve everyone, regardless of what they pay for a meal. That concept might not sound like a recipe for restaurant success, but in the three years since they opened the cafe, they've expanded staff, space and offerings. And since the Westword piece appeared, SAME Cafe has been profiled on both CBS and NBC's nightly newscasts.

Read Jared Jacang Maher's original article, "A Hunger to Help," here. The awards were announced this past weekend in New York; find a list of the finalists here.

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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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