{"id":338532,"date":"2026-06-16T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:03:10","slug":"dallas-snubbed-again-no-local-winners-at-2026-james-beard-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338532\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas snubbed again: No local winners at 2026 James Beard Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1240\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/osteria_il_muro_chef_sean_welch.webp.jpeg\" class=\"article-thumbnail-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chef Scott Girling at Osteria Il Muro\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChef Scott Girling at Osteria Il Muro \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sean Welch<\/p>\n<p>Dallas had only one contestant going into the James Beard Awards ceremony last night. Denton had one as well, the first for the college town to the north. <\/p>\n<p>Maggie Huff of Lucia was a semifinalist for the Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker award. Scott Girling of<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/food-drink\/osteria-il-muro-puts-italy-on-dentons-map-14411801\/\"> <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/food-drink\/osteria-il-muro-puts-italy-on-dentons-map-14411801\/\">Osteria Il Muro<\/a> in Denton was a semifinalist for Best Chef Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Neither walked away with an award. It\u2019s been 32 years since chef Dean Fearing was awarded Best Chef in America Southwest in 1994. <\/p>\n<p>Lucia has been in the running seven other times: Chef David Uygur has been a semifinalist for Best Chef in America Southwest five times (2014-2017, 2019); plus one nomination as Outstanding Chef in 2024; and Lucia was a nominee for Outstanding Restaurant in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the Food Alerts newsletter to get the latest stories delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re all set.<\/p>\n<p>CLOSE\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding Pastry Chef and Baker went to Susan Bae at Moon Rabbit in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star State earned only two awards: Best Chef: Texas went to Evelyn Garcia and Henry Lu at JUN in Houston. Emerging Chef went to Adrian Torres at Maximo in the Houston enclave, West University Place. <\/p>\n<p>See the full list of winners on the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbeard.org\/stories\/james-beard-award-winners-2026\">James Beard site<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chef Scott Girling at Osteria Il Muro Sean Welch Dallas had only one contestant going into the James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2595,102,104,103],"class_list":["post-338532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-awards-accolades","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}