Food & Wine has come out with their 2018 Best New Chef list. There aren’t any chefs in Maine on the list this year, but the July issue does include a list of all 323 chefs that have been recognized in the last two decades. Four are located in Maine today:
- 2004 – Rob Evans, Duckfat and former chef/owner of Hugo’s
- 2007 – Steve Corry, Five Fifty-Five
- 2011 – Bowman Brown, Elda in Biddeford and former co-chef/owner of Forage in Salt Lake City
- 2014 – Cara Stadler, Tao Yuan, Bao Bao and Lio