Eater Awards 2012 Gala Celebration at the Bowery Hotel

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• Pok Pok's Andy Ricker
• Nancy and Tim Cushman from O Ya in Boston and Tribeca's Drew Nieporent
• Restaurant of the Year winner Mission Chinese represents
• Noah and Rae Bernamoff
• Eater founder Lockhart Steele and Jordana Rothman
• Eater founder Lock Steele and Editorial Director Amanda Kludt hold and point at Eater Awards tomato cans.
• The Amateur Gourmet
• Eater Awards!
• Pavia Rosati with departing Eater Chicago editor Ari Bendersky
• Team Ox from PDX and Michael White
• Will Guidara here to pick up his award for Stone Cold Stunner
• Carlos Suarez, owner of the So Hot Right Now award restaurant Rosemary's, his designer cousin, and Jee Park
• Jeffrey Tascarella, repping Stone Cold Stunner winner The Nomad
• Booker & Dax's Dave Arnold and Aldea's George Mendes
• Eater flipbooks
• Team Eater Class Portrait, repping 20 sites in 19 cities
• The ladies of Eater! SF's Carolyn Alburger, LA's Kat Odell, and Miami's Chelsea Olson
• Eater photog Daniel Krieger with Atera's Matt Lightner
• Eater Nightlife editor Scott Solish and Curbed poobah Josh Albertson
• Chef Jesus Nunez (right)
• More ladies of Eater! Maine's Susan Axelrod, DC's Missy Frederick, Dallas' Whitney Filloon, National's Amy McKeever, PDX's Erin DeJesus, and Vegas' Susan Stapleton
• Team Booker & Dax (with Bartender of the year Tristan Willey)
• The Resto/Cannibal crew
• Eater NY's Greg Morabito, Amy Sather, Jonathan Rubenstein of Joe, and friend
• Paul Denamiel, Pat LaFrieda, Andrew Carmellini, Mark Pastore, Luke Ostrom, and friend
• Lillit Marcus, Lock Steele, Amanda Hesser
• Christian Debenedetti, Allen Salkin
• Altamarea Group's Eben Freeman with Gwynnett St.'s Carl McCoy.
• Eater NY's Alexander Hancock, Fran Merkley
• Eater Editorial Director Amanda Kludt and her husband Pablo Douzoglou
• Curbed's Sheena Vega and Kate Riesenberg
• Eater Associate Editor Hannah Leighton and intern Ashley Mason
• Eater Editorial Assistant Jackie Goldstein, Susan Stapleton, and Eric Sandler
• Josh Ozersky at the Crif Dogs cart

And so it came to pass that last evening, on the second floor of the Bowery Hotel, Team Eater joined its friends and acquaintances from the restaurant and nightlife industries to toast the nominees and winners of the 2012 Eater Awards. Accompanied by unseasonably nice weather, chefs from Portland restaurant Ox, Boston's O-Ya, San Francisco's State Bird Provisions, Yardbird in Miami, New Orleans' Maurepas Foods, Houston's Oxheart, and hometown hero Gwynnett St served up deliciousness to a room packed with food-obsessed revelers. By the DJ booth, custom cans of Eater Awards-brand signature Italian Peeled Tomatoes were stacked high, emblazoned with the names of the Eater Award winners from across this great nation.

Peruse the party pictures in our gallery above and check out some hangover observations, food porn, and video recap below.

· There was one major topic of the night, besides the Eater Awards winners, and that was Hurricane Sandy: which restaurateur's summer house in Breezy Point got destroyed, which chef had to walk his dog in the dark with a machete, who's getting insurance money and who isn't, whose meat was saved by Team LaFrieda, who's doing fundraisers and charity events.

· Harold Dieterle showed up with a beard.

· Mandy Oser is mulling over possible future locations for her wine bar hit Ardesia. Brooklyn is a distinct possibility. More than anything, she wants to offer her chef, Amorette Casaus, a bit more space to work.

· Noah and Rae Bernamoff say that they are mulling over their options in Red Hook, where their new facility was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy. Customer support at Mile End Deli and Mile End Sandwich has been off the charts since the storm.

· King of Tribeca Drew Nieporent has no interest in joining Twitter. But if you see him, please ask him to join Twitter.

· Will Guidara says the EMP/Alinea switch was fun and a lot of work, but things are back to normal at The Nomad/EMP.

· Yes, there were meat donuts. And fried quail and charcuterie and octopus topped with chicken and lamb belly and uni and all kinds of delicious foodstuffs. See below:

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• Ox's meat doughnut
• Fried quail from State Bird Provisions
• Chicken and grits from Maurepas Foods
• State Bird Provisions' World Peace Milk
• Team O Ya
• O Ya's hamachi and uni
• The Optimist's chicken drippings
• Meatloaf and mashed potatoes from Yardbird
• Duck skin from Maurepas Foods
• Gwynnett St
• Team Yardbird
• Tito's Vodka
• Sixpoint Beer
• Charcuterie from Yardbird
• Charcuterie from Yardbird
• Team Yardbird
• Arancini from L'Apicio
• Amstel at the after party
• The Gwynnett St dog at the Crif Dogs cart
• Octopus with chicken skin
• Sweet potatoes with miso butter from Maurepas Foods
• Homemade Slim Jim and cheddar from Yardbird
• Gwynnett St's lamb belly

· In 2010, we brought out the Korilla truck for a late night surprise. Last year it rained milk and cookies. For 2012, we saw a rare appearance from the Crif Dogs hot dog truck, serving up a special Gwynnett St hotdog in front of afterparty spot L'apicio.

How about we relive the party right now?

Thanks to our Sponsors:
· Tito's Vodka
· Sixpoint Brewery
· Verity Wines
· Whole Foods
· Pat LaFreida
· VerTerra
· Warby Parker
· CityEats
· Travel Oregon
· Houston CVB
· Wellness in the Schools
· Wines of Greece

Special thanks to: the Institute of Culinary Education and Dinex Group for the refrigerator and kitchen prep space and to the International Culinary Center volunteers who helped our chefs.

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