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" The biggest night of the year for chefs, when they all congregate in New York and give each other medals and then go out drinking, happened Monday night. But it came with a few interesting surprises for everyone else: This was the first year the James Beard Awards have individually recognized cocktails in the form of the Outstanding Bar Program honor, which went to PDT in New York City (they have a book you should check out). Perennial nominee Chris Hastings was finally awarded for his Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama. Paul Qui got a nod for his Uchiko, proving that it apparently does pay to win Top Chef (or judge it \u2014 Hugh Acheson also won). And Best New Restaurant Next in Chicago is apparently every bit as strange and impossible-to-get-into and life-altering as Tom Chiarella found it to be some months ago. See all the winners here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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