May 9th, 2011
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Author: NEW YORK — For the third year in a row, Birmingham’s Highlands Bar and Grill made the final five, but watched a New York City restaurant win the James Beard Foundation Award as the country’s top eatery.
This year, it was Eleven Madison Park.
In 2009, Highlands lost to Jean Georges, and last year, Daniel won the top award.
Highlands chef-owner Frank Stitt did not go home without a coveted James Beard Foundation medal, however.
Earlier in the evening, the foundation inducted Stitt into its Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America, calling him “the culinary king of Alabama.”
Another Birmingham chef, Chris Hastings of Hot and Hot Fish Club, had been a finalist for best chef in the South, but that award went to Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon in New Orleans.
Hastings has been a finalist in that category for four of the past five years, but has yet to win.
Also, in an award announced earlier, Alabama native Rick Bragg won a James Beard Foundation journalism award for “The Southerner’s Guide to Oysters,” a piece he co-wrote for Garden & Gun magazine.
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