5/9/2012

James Beard Foundation Awards dubs Boulevard best restaurant in America

San Francisco restaurant Boulevard, set in a historic building and designed in the manner of France’s Belle Epoque, has been named the best in the US.

At the James Beard Foundation Awards, an event known within the hospitality industry as the ‘Oscars’ of the food world, chef Nancy Oakes’s eatery was named Outstanding Restaurant Monday night, beating fellow nominees like Blue Hill and Balthazar, both of New York; Highlands Bar and Grill in Birmingham, Alabama; and Vetri in Philadelphia.