Chef Susan Spicer
Bayona and Mondo Restaurants
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Susan Spicer is a one-woman industry in New Orleans. She has been named one of Food and Wine's 10 Best New Chefs and received the James Beard Award for Best Chef, Southeast Region, 1993. Bayona has been featured in Bon Appetit (1994) and Food and Wine featured Susan in their 2000 Thanksgiving issue. She has been a guest chef for the Cunard Line four times and for Crystal Cruise Line in 1996. She has received the DiRoNa designation from Distinguished Restaurants of North America, the Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence, and Bayona was voted Number One in Gourmet Reader's Choice Poll of America's Top Tables, New Orleans. Mondo, recently opened in the city's Lakeview neighborhood, specializes in world cuisine "with a New Orleans accent." |
