Your Local Food And Wine Best New Chefs

Left: Nate Appleman (via A16, Right: Christopher Kostow (via Meadowood)

Food and Wine’s Best New Chefs awards party just started, but Grub Street already knows who won. Two Bay Area chefs claim Best New Chef awards, including one we name-checked yesterday, and one from a ways up north.

As fun as it was to play FW editor Dana Cowin’s twitter game, in which she dropped coy clues about the winners, it’s time to open the danged envelopes already.

While you can see the whole list at Grub Street, here’s what matters right here and now: Locally, the awards are going to Nate Appleman, of A16 and SPQR, and Christopher Kostow, of Napa’s Meadowood.

MenuPages Boston is also giving kudos to honoree Barry Maiden, of Cambridge’s Hungry Mother.

Kostow, who won a Michelin Star for the first restaurant he headed, Mountain View’s Chez TJ, came on as executive chef at Meadowood just about a year ago, replacing Joseph Humphrey. He was a Chronicle Rising Star Chef last year.

Appleman is one of a few American chefs who can call themselves a “pizzaiolo,” a stringent Italian certification of mastery. He’s worked in Italy and at top restaurants around the country, First landing in San Francisco at Campton Place, under Laurent Manrique. Now he’s a partner at A16 and SPQR, and a 2007 Chronicle Rising Star Chef.

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Your Local Food And Wine Best New Chefs