Food & Wine Names Philly Chef Among Best In Nation

PHILADELPHIA — The food scene in Philadelphia has become a shining star across the nation, and even internationally, with numerous accolades awarded to our eclectic eateries, chefs, bakers, and more.

And now, the city has another reason to brag, as a Philadelphia chef was named among the best new chefs in 2020 by Food & Wine Magazine.

The list, "Food & Wine Best New Chefs 2020," is the magazine's 32nd to date.

Among the honorees is Philadelphia chef Camille Cogswell.

Cogswell is the chef at Kfar, one of the restaurants owned and operated by the James Bear Award-winning team of Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook whose restaurants include Zahav and Federal Donuts.

Here's part of what Food & Wine says about Cogswell:

Kfar translates to “village” in Hebrew, and chef Camille Cogswell’s version is a culinary utopia. Her restaurant, K’Far, located on a busy corner of Rittenhouse neighborhood in Philadelphia, is a place where piping hot rings of Jerusalem bagels, shaped like lithe zeros that got stretched out at yoga class, are constantly being pulled from the ovens. (The restaurant makes around 1,300 pieces a week.) They are best slathered with butter and generous amounts of za’atar or piled with fluffy yellow scrambled eggs and brushstrokes of bright green schug, a fiery Yemenite hot sauce. It’s enough to make you forget cream cheese ever existed.

Cogswell herself is no stranger to high praise.

She won the Rising Star Chef of the Year James Beard Award when she was chef at Zahav in 2018.

You can read Food & Wine's full write-up on Cogswell here.

Find the entire list of the best new chef's here.