Chef Eric Ripert’s PBS series Avec Eric won the 2011 Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award over the weekend in the “Outstanding Culinary Program” category. The show beat out Cook’s Country, America’s Test Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy, Paula’s Best Dishes, and Secrets of a Restaurant Chef. Incidentally, Avec Eric also won a Beard Award this year for “Television Program, On Location.”

by Sophie Gayot
I have had the pleasure of meeting French chef Bruno Lopez many times throughout his career.
I’ve tasted his dishes when he was working at different The Ritz-Carlton hotels, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire (now a Four Seasons), and the Hotel Bel-Air.
I was most impressed with his peach gazpacho with truffle oil, which he made when he was at the restaurant of the Raffles L’Ermitage hotel (now part of the Viceroy Hotel Group). I was sorry when he stopped serving the public when he became a private chef at the …

Photo by Ben Fant

“I am very honored,
 because the people who vote for me are also chefs,”
says chef Jose Gutierrez.

By popular votes:
Chef Claude Godard at Madison Bistro is the winner of the 2010 Beaujolais Bistro Cup.
That means YOU think we exude the best of bistro culture.

The top-tier Toronto chef Didier Leroy has been awarded the prestigious title Maître Cuisinier de France. Leroy joins the ranks of 350 international chefs honoured by France for contributing to the tradition of French gastronomy. As the first one bestowed in English Canada, Leroy’s award marks one more feather in Toronto’s culinary cap, and one more example of the city’s French food renaissance.
A long-time name on the Toronto scene, the Parisian worked in many a Michelin-starred kitchen before opening his eponymous midtown restaurant in 2000. With newfound responsibility to keep …

CINCINNATI — Stars mean a lot in the dining world, and it appears chef Jean-Robert de Cavel will continue to rule the Cincinnati restaurant realm with his. On Jan. 28, Mobil Travel Guide yet again awarded the restaurateur’s flagship restaurant, Jean-Robert at Pigall’s, the status as Ohio’s only four-star eatery.
Located at 127 W. Fourth St., de Cavel’s French fine dining hub is no stranger to awards in late October, Zagat Survey named Pigall’s one of the top 11 restaurants in the country.While the Mobil Travel Guide celebrates its 50th anniversary …