Chitown represent!
Rising Star Chef
Graham Eliot Bowles - Avenues
Best Chef Midwest
Shawn McClain - Spring, Green Zebra, and Custom House
Best New Restaurant
Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas-Alinea
In addition to those folks, others who got nods include: Rick Bayless, Charlie Trotter, Mark Caro of the Chicago Tribune, Carol Mighton Haddix and the whole Chicago Tribune food section, Everest, and Spiaggia.
In case anyone wants to hear recent interviews with Chef Bowles or Chef McClain, we got em at
Hungry Magazine