Nancy Oakes Biography

Few chefs in America today have achieved and maintained the level of awareness and culinary expertise that Chef Nancy Oakes has. Her clients have clearly been cared for, and they have spoken up: she is San Francisco's most popular chef. Almost every reader's survey in the San Francisco Bay Area identifies Nancy Oakes as the most popular chef and Boulevard as the best restaurant in the city, including the Zagat guide for the past seven years and the San Francisco Chronicle Reader's Poll. She was also one of just a handful of restaurants in the world to obtain a Michelin Star in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Chef Nancy Oakes was honored by her peers in 2001, with the prestigious and well-deserved James Beard Foundation Award for "Best Chef in California." Nancy Oakes was also nominated for the "Outstanding Service Award" in 2002 and 2004 by the James Beard Foundation, as well as the "Outstanding Restaurant Award" in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Boulevard, The Cookbook, created by Chef Oakes and Co-Chef Pamela Mazzola, was nominated for both the James Beard Foundation and the IACP in 2006 and was chosen by the Amazon Cookbook Editor as one of his best cookbooks of the year. Chef Oakes appears often on the local ABC network show View From The Bay, as well as on radio and as a public speaker both locally and worldwide. Oakes is a frequent writer to Bon Appetit Magazine and has had articles published in Fine Cooking Magazine as well as periodicals in Spain, Japan, Korea, Norway, and New Zealand.

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