sentences:  Her innovative, regional American cuisine earned her awards from The Washington Post and Wine Spectator magazine, and she was a finalist for a James Beard Award in 1999.In 2002, a dinner she created in celebration of Julia Child's 90th birthday was filmed and became a top-rated documentary on Washington's public television outlet, WETA in the summer of 2004.Lacoste left "1789" at the end of 2005 and opened "Ris" in December 2009, in the West End neighborhood of Washington, located in the Ritz-Carlton.