What Tasty Restaurant Design Has Been Nominated for James Beard Awards?
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Here at UnBeige, we’ve been known to select dining establishments based on their chairs and menu typefaces, so when the James Beard Foundation announces its annual slate of award nominees, we head straight for the design and graphics categories. New Orleans’ Palace Cafe was the setting for this morning’s announcement of the 2010 contenders, selected by committees of industry professionals in each of the categories.
Duking it out for the James Beard Award in outstanding restaurant design are Evan Douglis Studio for Choice Market in Brooklyn; Project M’s John Bielenberg for PieLab, a pie shop-cum-community design center in Greensboro, Alabama; and Andre Kikoski Architect for The Wright, the swooping, Liam Gillick-accented eatery on the ground floor of New York’s Guggenheim Museum. The restaurant graphics category again pits Korn Design, who won last year for its work for Denver’s The Corner Office and this year makes the list for Catalan-inspired Mercat a la Planxa in Chicago, against Steven Solomon, who is nominated for the second consecutive year for Terroir in New York City. The new face in the crowd is that of Pandiscio Co., whose pub-gone-whimsical look for New York’s Standard Grill is going to be tough to beat. Here’s hoping that the nominating committee makes it to Casa Lever to check out Mucca Design’s graphical achievements before next year’s shortlist is announced. Winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards will be announced on May 3 at a Lincoln Center ceremony hoted by gastronomic celebrity-entrepreneurs Alton Brown, Lidia Bastianich, and Wolfgang Puck. Wear your fanciest clogs!
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