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Miami Herald
30-04-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Are these the best new chefs in Miami? Magazine honors the rising stars of 2025
A national restaurant magazine has named several chefs and food and beverage professionals from Miami as some of the best in the country. StarChefs, which highlights up-and-coming culinary talent and industry trends, has announced its 2025 Miami Rising Stars Award winners who are being recognized for their food and the ability to lead, inspire and support the community and the restaurant industry. Managing partner Will Blunt said the winners — who are judged on creativity, ambition, presentation and philosophy as well as their menus — are 'successfully representing the city's dynamic cultures and communities with respect and intention.' 'As the focus shifts west — beyond the beach — a new generation of chefs, bartenders, sommeliers and restaurateurs are thinking locally by emphasizing South Florida Produce, catering to year-round residents and embracing Miami's global influences while paying homage to the industry leaders who have come before them,' he said in a statement. The culinary luminaries honored include Maria Teresa Gallina and Nicolas Martinez of Recoveco in South Miami and Juan Camilo Liscano of Palma in Miami. Both restaurants were added to the 2025 Michelin Guide this year, and Liscano won the Michelin Young Chef Award this year as well. Also honored was Tam Pham of the insanely popular Vietnamese spot Tam Tam, named a Bib Gourmand by the Michelin Guide, who's also one of the owners of the new Double Luck Chinese on the 79th Street Causeway. Evan Burgess and Osmel Gonzalez of the Michelin-starred EntreNos in Miami Shores earned the Game Changer award, which recognizes professionals whose leadership is advancing the industry. Burgess and Gonzalez, who try to source the majority of their ingredients from Florida, earned a Michelin Green Star this year. They were honored for their locally sourced produce and land-based protein; sustainably sourced seafood; dinnerware made by a Miami-based artisan, an organic and biodynamic wine program and the repurposing of food waste into vinegars and sauces. StarChefs is also hosting Miami Rising Stars Restaurant Week from May 7-21 — yes, that's technically two weeks — during which the chefs will prepare new and special dishes at their restaurants to show off their skills. Here is a full list of this year's Miami winners. Rising Stars chefs Estefania Andrade of Trippy Kitchen, Tripping Animals Brewing Co. in Miami Ivan Barros of Magic Wine Bar in Miami and Coconut Grove (formerly at Amara at Paraiso) Javier Cussato and Carmen Ibarra of Atomica at MIA Market in the Design District Maria Teresa Gallina and Nicolas Martinez of Recoveco in South Miami Juan Camilo Liscano of Palma in Miami Tam Pham of Tam Tam in downtown Miami Juan Manuel Umbert of Pasta in Wynwood Pastry chef Ana De Sa Martins, formerly of Stubborn Seed in Miami Beach Bakers Christian Julien and Oscar Lastra of Facade Bartender Rensel Cabrera of The Sylvester in Miami Sommeliers Gabriela Ospina of Boia De in Little River Matt Whitney of Sunny's Steakhouse in Little River Game Changer award Evan Burgess and Osmel Gonzalez of EntreNos in Miami Shores Community award Karla Hoyos of Tacotomia in Miami Restaurateurs Josh Hackler, Pili Restrepo and Sebastian Vargas of Grassfed Culture Hospitality Concept award Kavan Burke, Wayne Sharpe and Harrison Sofer of Jrk! in downtown Miami Mentor award Diego Oka of La Mar by Gaston Acurio
BBC News
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Michelin young chef of the year enjoying British ingredients
The winner of the Michelin Young Chef Award for 2025 has said she is enjoying cooking with British ingredients since making the move to the UK from South Africa. Ash Valenzuela-Heeger came over to be with her wife Erin and the pair set up the Riverine Rabbit in Stirchley, restaurant has also caught the eye of the Michelin Guide and it received a Bib Gourmand award in recognition of food which is both good quality and good described the young chef award as a "nice pat on the back" and the couple said they were "very happy" with their restaurant. Before coming to the UK, Ash had her own restaurant in Cape Town and said "leaving a continent is a very hard thing to do".The 35-year-old said "hats off to anyone who does it" and explained it was especially difficult because she came over in 2020, during the coronavirus setting up a new restaurant in Birmingham the couple ran a number of pop-ups in different locations around the said they had been "generating buzz in Brummie circles for some time" before opening Riverine said they eventually settled on Stirchley because they spent a lot of time there "hanging out" and she said there were "a lot of cool independent businesses on the high street"."We felt a kinship to Stirchley," she said. Ash said she really enjoyed working with Asian ingredients and techniques, but when she moved to Birmingham she had to adapt to use British said she was really enjoying working with new ingredients such as scallops and oily fish and said: "Even the beef tastes different over here."She admitted "there's a lot of indigenous flora that you get in South Africa which I do miss a lot," but trying new ingredients was "fun".Presenting her with the young chef award, the Michelin Guide said Ash's "original cooking is big on flavour and draws on influences from her native South Africa to across Asia".It also praised the couple for an "inventive and invigorating restaurant".Riverine Rabbit is a lot smaller than the restaurant in Cape Town, but Erin, 29, said they were "very happy just serving our 12 guests".Erin divides her time between the restaurant and her other job as a materials scientist at the University of Birmingham, specialising in aerospace ceramics, and said there were no plans to expand at this said they "just make things a little bit better every day". Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
