Jay Senter
Jay Senter
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Story chef among nominees for Food & Wine’s ‘People’s Best’ award

Carl Thorne_Thomsen
The gastronomical glory continues at The Village Shops.

Story restaurant’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen is among the nominees for Food & Wine magazine’s “The People’s Best New Chef” award in the Midwest division. (Port Fonda’s Patrick Ryan made the list as well, and is the only other Kansas City-area chef among the 10 nominees).

Thorne-Thomsen recently made the semi-finalist list for the prestigious James Beard awards.

Food & Wine’s nominee write up for Thorne-Thomsen says he’s amazing because “he’s turning out incredible European-inspired dishes in a shopping center in suburban Kansas”…which doesn’t make the location sound all that remarkable. We would, of course, beg to differ.

Voting for the Food & Wine “People’s Best” awards is open to the public through March 18. Click here to vote.

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About the author

Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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