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Ave Maria!

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson
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She was named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs in 2005. The past two years she’s been nominated for the James Beard Award’s Best Chef in the Northwest award. Last year The New York Times’ Frank Bruni named her Wallingford restaurant, Tilth, one of the Top Ten in the country.

And yesterday she took the James Beard prize for the Best Chef in the Northwest.

Hines beat out a slew of other nominees, who boiled down to these finalists: Jason Wilson of Crush; Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez of Harvest Vine and Txori; Ethan Stowell of Union, Tavolata, How To Cook a Wolf, and Anchovies & Olives; and Cathy Whims of Portland’s Nostrana.

Really stiff competition. Really well-deserved. Brava Maria.




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Kathryn Robinson
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Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.