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1993 Ivy Awards: a year of firsts. (food service awards)

By Futran, Eric; Ryan, Nancy Ross; Tauber, Richard
Publication: Restaurants & Institutions
Date: Saturday, May 15 1993

The winners of the 1993 Ivy Awards are presented. The winners include Antoine's in New Orleans, run by Bernard R. Guste, great-great-grandson of the 23-year-old family operation's founder. The Harvard Street Grill of Brookline, MA, with only 32 seats and owner and 1-man cook John J. Vyhnanek, is the smallest restaurant to win the award. Larry and Mark Levy won another award this year for Spiaggia in Chicago after winning last year for Bistro 110.

"We wish to thank the Academy," quipped Larry Levy and Mark Levy, the first-ever winners of consecutive Ivy Awards (last year for Bistro

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