Nancy Oakes
Nancy Oakes | |
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 Oakes in 2012 | |
| Spouse | Bruce Aidells |
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| Cooking style | New American cuisine |
Current restaurant(s)
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Previous restaurant(s)
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Nancy Oakesis an American chef, who ishead chefofBoulevard,and won theJames Beard Foundation Awardfor Outstanding Chef in 2001.
Career
[edit]The culinary career of Nancy Oakes began under Pat O'Shea at the Mad Hatter restaurant in theRichmond DistrictofSan Francisco.She left that restaurant to open a location on her own, with L'Avenue opening in 1988. Although the restaurant closed in 1993, theSan Francisco Chronicle's website "SFGate" highlighted Oakes' work at L'Avenue as being one of five trendsetting restaurants which changed the culinary scene in the city.[1]
When L'Avenue was closed, Oakes opened her second restaurant,Boulevard.[1]It is located inone of two buildingson the waterfront that survived the1906 San Francisco earthquake.[2][3]Oakes has continued to work in the kitchen there ever since, although she takes an interest in her third restaurant, Prospect.[4]With the exception of 1996, Oakes was nominated consecutively for theJames Beard Foundation Awardfor Outstanding Chef from 1995 to 2000, winning the award in 2001.[5]Likewise, Boulevard was nominated on eight consecutive occasions for the Best Restaurant Award,[2][5]before finally winning in 2012. She said that over the time she has spent at the restaurant, it was evolved from a neighborhood restaurant into something that people view as a destination restaurant.[4]
WithAnna Weinbergand Ken Fulk, she opened Tosca Cafe in 2021.[6]
Personal life
[edit]Oakes is married to Bruce Aidells, founder of Aidells sausage company and a cook book author.[7]
References
[edit]- ^abBauer, Michael (May 18, 2011)."Restaurants that changed dining in San Francisco".SFGate.RetrievedNovember 6,2017.
- ^ab"James Beard Foundation Awards dubs Boulevard best restaurant in America".New York Daily News.May 8, 2012.RetrievedNovember 6,2017.
- ^"San Francisco Landmark #7 Audiffred Building".RetrievedJune 2,2023.
- ^abWilkey, Robin (May 17, 2012)."Nancy Oakes, Boulevard Chef And Owner, On San Francisco Food Trends And Winning The Ultimate James Beard Award".Huffington Post.RetrievedNovember 6,2017.
- ^ab"Nancy Oakes".James Beard Foundation.RetrievedNovember 6,2017.
- ^Duffett, Becky (May 12, 2021)."Step Inside the Historic Tosca Cafe, Reopened for Indoor Dining After Nearly Two Years".Eater San Francisco.Retrieved5 November2022.
- ^Martin, Glen (October 9, 2017)."Students Sink Their Teeth Into the Search for a Meat Alternative".Cal Alumni Association. Archived fromthe originalon November 7, 2017.RetrievedNovember 6,2017.