Leelanau Chefs are semifinalists for prestigious award

MyNorth.com reports the 3 area chefs have been named semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Leelanau County’s Randy Chamberlain of Blu restaurant in Glen Arbor, Guillaume Hazaël-Massieux of La Bécasse in Burdickville and Myles Anton of Traverse City’s Trattoria Stella in the Best Chef: Great Lakes category:

Selected from thousands of online entries, the prestigious group of semifinalists in the 19 Restaurant and Chef categories represents a wide variety of culinary talent, from legendary chefs and dining destinations in 10 different regions across the United States, to the nation’s best new restaurants and rising star chefs.