Colorado chef wins prestigious James Beard Award – and here’s where you can taste her food
Penelope Wong, a Colorado chef at a Denver restaurant, has won a prestigious James Beard Award.
With the James Beard Award winners announced on June 15 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Penelope Wong won best chef in the program’s ‘Mountain Region’ – a region that includes Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.
Wong works at Yuan Wonton, a food truck-turned-full service restaurant in Denver. According to Open Table, Yuan Wonton serves up made from scratch, hand-made wontons and dumplings, as well as first generation Canto-American creations.
The restaurant has an impressive 4.5 stars on Yelp, with customers leaving rave reviews about the “innovative and amazingly executed” food. One reviewer wrote that it was some of the “best food we have had in Denver recently…or ever,” and another said that the restaurant is “a must visit for any fan of dumplings, or really anyone.”
Check out the full list of James Beard Award winners here.
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