Food & Wine has posted its Best New Chef awards for 2008. Look for their profiles in the July issue, but take a peek at the winners here:
    - Jim Burke: owner of James, a modern Italian restaurant in Philadelphia's Bella Vista neighborhood.
 
    - Gerard Craft: owner and chef at Niche in St. Louis, where bacon and eggs sandwich and braised pork belly top the menu.
 
                                    
                                    
                                
                                
                             
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
    - Tim Cushman: The Boston native cooks at O Ya, a New England eatery with Japanese flavors in Boston.
 
    - Jeremy Fox: A meat-eater, Fox heads Ubuntu, a vegetarian restaurant in Napa.
 
    - Koren Grieveson: This ex-US soldier cooks up European wine country fare at Chicago's wine bar, Avec.
 
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Food & Wine's top chefs, click on the link below.