Menu editors Pat Cobe and Bret Thorn have been among the many friends celebrating the 2024 MenuMasters award winners on Saturday. We have been on the middle of the occasion at Morgan Manufacturing in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood, sampling the meals ready by the cooks on the varied stations and talking with the eight cooks honored this 12 months.
Chef and restaurateur Nancy Silverton was inducted into the MenuMasters Corridor of Fame and we talked on the podcast about her accomplishments as a chef and restaurateur. She was notably moved to obtain an business award and commented on how these awards have fun the range of the eating places represented on the ceremony. Different winners included informal eating places CAVA and Tender Greens, quick-service gamers Del Taco and McDonald's, and informal eating idea Fogo de Chão.
Indian entrepreneur Meherwan Irani and digital cooking guru Samuel “Sam the Cooking Man” Zien have been additionally honored, additional reflecting that range.
We additionally featured the wild MenuMasters after-party, the place particular results, music, dancing and extra meals and drinks stored friends entertained till virtually midnight.
MenuMasters was held through the Nationwide Restaurant Expo, so we toured the reveals and chatted about our favourite tastes, sips, and happenings.
Menu Speak is a collaboration between Restaurant Enterprise senior menu editor Pat Cobe and Bret Thorn, senior meals and beverage editor at Nation's Restaurant Information and Restaurant Hospitality. You may subscribe wherever you hearken to podcasts.