Stephan Pyles, Sharon Hage Named Semifinalists for James Beard Award

As Jason mentioned in Leading Off this morning, Stephan Pyles has made the list of semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Awards — twice. The man himself is a semifinalist for Outstanding Chef for his work at his eponymous Stephan Pyles restaurant. And his Samar, right down the street, is a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant.

The link Jason gave was to a story on nbcdfw.com, which said Pyles was the only chef in North Texas to be named a semifinalist. Alert FBvian Marcus had a look at the semifinalists list and noticed that the fine folks at nbcdfw.com missed Sharon Hage’s name. She’s a semifinalist in the Best Chef Southwest category.

Congrats to both. I’m sure Nancy will have a more extensive post on this in a bit over on SideDish.