Edouardo Jordan is also nominated for Best Chef: Northwest (for JuneBaby and Salare), along with chef-team Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi (Joule and more). (All were named finalists in the same category last year.) Rounding out the Northwest chef nominations: Katy Millard (Coquine, Portland), Bonnie Morales (Kachka, Portland) and Justin Woodward (Castagna, Portland).
Joule is a Korean steakhouse that’s great for big groups. We love the marinated short rib steak with kalbi sauce and the even-better ribeye with spicy peanut oil and beef belly la lot. Plus, there’s bright blue wallpaper that looks like something from a trippy Victorian dream sequence at first, but upon further inspection is actually patterns of diamond rings, roosters, and ribeye steaks. How appropriate.