Four Durham Restaurants & Chefs Recognized as Semifinalists for James Beard Award

More great things are happening on the Durham food scene! More because Durham is already in the running to be named the Tastiest Town in the South by Southern Living magazine.  Read about that here, and read on for some great reasons why, precisely, Durham is on that list to begin with.

Durham-admirers will be pleased to discover that the Oscars of the food world, The James Beard Awards, have recognized five Durham chefs and restaurants as part of its 2013 semifinalists list.

The honorees for the James Beard Foundation's 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards Restaurant and Chef Award Semifinalists are:

1. Mateo bar de Tapas in the category of Best New Restaurant
2. Pheobe Lawless of Scratch Bakery in the category of Outstanding Pastry Chef
3. Sean Lilly Wilson of Fullsteam Brewery in the category of Outstanding Wine, Spirits, Beer Professional
4. Scott Howell of Nana's in the category of  Best Chef in the Southeast

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