Three Pittsburgh-based chefs and one local restaurant are semifinalists for the annual James Beard Foundation Award, which recognizes the best of the best in the restaurant industry.
Released on Wednesday, the James Beard semifinalists for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic, which includes D.C. , Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania, named Kate Lasky and Tomasz Skowronski and Wei Zhu of Pittsburgh among over 20 other names.
Lasky and Skowronski are with Apteka , a Central and Eastern European restaurant right between Bloomfield and Lawrenceville on Penn Avenue…