Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong restaurant in downtown Phoenix has won her first James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. Martin grew up cooking alongside her mother in Thailand. Since 2022, she has ...

Yotaka Martin, chef of Lom Wong in Phoenix, won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. Several Phoenix chefs congratulated Martin on social media. The James Beard Awards — the Oscars of ...

On a cloudy morning in May, Yotaka “Sunny” Martin stands at a large black stone mortar and pestle, adding garlic and peppercorns. While she deftly bashes the ingredients into a paste, her husband Alex ...

The most talented folks in food gathered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Monday night for the 2025 James Beard Awards ceremony hosted by chefs Nyesha Arrington and Andrew Zimmern. Six months after ...

Food & Wine released its 2025 Best New Chefs list on Sept. 9 and Phoenix chef Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong in Phoenix received a shoutout. Martin, who won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef — ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The new Best Chef in the Southwest is right here in the Valley! On Monday, Lom Wong’s Yokata “Sunny” Martin won the prestigious James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Southwest, ...

PHOENIX — The award-winning chef of a Phoenix Thai restaurant received more national recognition this week. When Martin moved to the United States, she made it her goal to share he family and friend’s ...

The congress has divided into two parties after the reconciliation budget process, Banner University Medical Center Phoenix has a new and comprehensive one-stop-shop services for critically ill ...

While Food & Wine just recognized Yotaka Martin, who won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest, among its 2025 list of Best New Chefs, The New York Times gave Arizona no love at all on ...