As our sibling publication Grub Street reported earlier, Food and Wine is playing a game today on twitter today where editor Dana Cowin drops clues about the identities of this year’s Best New Chefs, which will be announced tomorrow.
She already called Grub Street out for guessing at Paul Liebrandt, of Corton (“Not true. Yet.”). That clue was “Broadway Beauty and the NW.”
Her fourth clue seems to suggest A16/SPQR executive chef Nate Appleman: “Ciao I-95W.” As Eater SF points out, “Nate Appleman hasn’t won the honor yet, A16 is a freeway in Italy, San Francisco is west of NYC (you’re welcome for the geography lesson).”
Also, Appleman is in town, helping to cook at Chelsea Market last night. According to his own twitter feed, he’s still around, heading to Blue Hill at Stone Barns this afternoon.
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