{"id":357902,"date":"2026-04-01T03:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:21:16","slug":"austin-misses-out-on-james-beard-award-finalist-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357902\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin misses out on James Beard Award finalist round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Austin restaurants were named as finalists for this year\u2019s James Beard Awards despite a strong showing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/austin\/2026-01-21\/barley-swine-mercado-sin-nombre-and-7-more-austin-restaurants-named-james-beard-award-semifinalists?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ3zghleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFzU1c2djd0OERHRjBUREo2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHu5xzxCNun0xDKncaawB4wdxZPCk1tcbTzNqAeOj5pL7XBl6eLSu_cSCpZlY_aem_JiiycyYGqJQNEtW_g52omw\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the semifinalist round.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Austin\u2019s chefs and restaurateurs won\u2019t be up for any accolades at the final ceremony on June 15, Texas will still be represented.<\/p>\n<p>Chefs and restaurants from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and other cities across the state are up for different categories, including the recognition as best chef in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Below are all the finalists and their nomination categories.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Ortega and Tracy Vaught, H Town Restaurant Group, Houston (Outstanding Restaurateur)Mixtli, San Antonio (Outstanding Restaurant)Adrian Torres, Maximo, West University Place (Emerging Chef)Agnes and Sherman, Houston (Best New Restaurant)Tavel Bristol-Joseph, Nicosi, San Antonio (Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker)Maggie Huff, Lucia, Dallas (Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker)June Rodil, March, Houston (Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service)Ope Amosu, Ch\u00f2pnBl\u1ecdk, Houston (Best Chef: Texas)Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu, J\u016aN, Houston (Best Chef: Texas)Scott Girling, Osteria Il Muro, Denton (Best Chef: Texas)Gabe Padilla and Melissa Padilla, Caf\u00e9 Piro, Socorro (Best Chef: Texas)Finn Walter, The Nicolett, Lubbock (Best Chef: Texas)<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Arjav Ezekiel of Birdie&#8217;s won the award for Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No Austin restaurants were named as finalists for this year\u2019s James Beard Awards despite a strong showing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-357902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}