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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Photo | Michael T. Regan

Philly's own Jose Garces just won Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic honors at the annual James Beard Foundation awards, going down in NYC right now. Aside from being an Iron Chef America winner, Garces runs Amada, Tinto, Distrito and Chifa here in Philly and Mercat a la Planxa in his hometown of Chicago.

It was Garces' third consecutive nom; he beat out Cathal Armstrong of Alexandria's Restaurant Eve, Peter Pastan of D.C.'s Obelisk, Maricecl Presilla of Hoboken's Cucharamama and Vikram Sunderam of D.C.'s Rasika. The news came to us via JBF's Twitter page. (For more real-time awards Tweeting, check out the pages of The Food Section, Slashfood and Serious Eats.)

Check out Felicia D's March 26 chat with Garces and some other Philly JBF nominees here.

Congrats, chef!


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Posted 2009-07-30 11:34:11
[...] T. Regan     We already watched chef Jose Garces wax Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America and scoop up a Best Chef Mid-Atlantic Award from the James Beard Foundation. Now comes word that the multi-restaurant wonder will appear as one [...] 
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