McCormack Nominated for James Beard Award
Congratulations to Margot McCormack, chef-owner of Margot Café & Bar, the only Nashville chef and restaurant to make the semifinals for the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards. McCormack is one of 20 semifinalists in the category of Best Chef Southeast. The only other Tennessee contender in the category is Erling Jensen from Memphis. Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., is in the running for Outstanding Wine Service.
On Monday, March 24, the James Beard Foundation will announce five final nominees in each category, from which the winners will be selected and announced on June 8 in New York City.
For a full list of nominees and information about the awards process, see the press release.
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That is a well deserved honor. Thanks to Margot for all she's done for Nashville eaters. And for bringing a real brunch to the masses! Down with Shoney's breakfast bar.
Posted 03/07/2008 at 03:37:52 PMmy sincerest congrats to margot who has fed me countless excellent meals throughout my years here. i am pulling for you!!!
Posted 03/07/2008 at 03:40:37 PMWell deserved honor for a chef who does her work every day without ego, whose gratification lies in a plate perfectly done and guests well fed. Forks crossed for the next step...and a shout out to The Tennessean's Jim Myers for making the nomination and nudging it along through the process.
Posted 03/07/2008 at 04:40:31 PMthis anonymousey person, she sounds strangely familiar... it couldn't be... yeah. it is.
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Posted 03/07/2008 at 07:34:25 PM"And for bringing a real brunch to the masses! Down with Shoney's breakfast bar."
Not to be all TobintheGnome about it, but this is pure snobbery.
Marche brunch for four, four plates and two sides, plus four coffees and four juices, with 20% tip is approximately $80.
Shoney's breakfast bar for four, with coffee and juice, plus 20% tip, is $32.
Two totally different categories. It's possible to go to Marche and not look down on Shoney's, many of whose customers only trip to a restaurant all week is a Sunday breakfast bar after church, and a brunch at Marche costs 2/3 of the rest of the family's weekly food budget.
If there was a local, independent restaurant interested in bringing good food at affordable prices to people for whom a family meal at Marche would wreck the weekly budget, you would have a point. But in the meantime, get some perspective on the way people live. It's fine to go to Marche, which serves my favorite brunch in town and whose prices are in line with comparable restaurants, but you have set up a false opposition that basically looks down at the way many people in Nashville have to eat.
Posted 03/08/2008 at 09:16:17 PMDG, I didn't set up any "false opposition." I expressed my personal opposition.
I personally don't like the lard buffet stocked with boiled bacon and fruit flies hovering beneath the sneeze guard. My opinion is as valid as anybody else's, including yours.
Way to piss in the punchbowl when I was trying to recognize Margot's achievement for bringing good morning food to my friends across the river.
Posted 03/09/2008 at 04:47:22 PM