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Chef at downtown Phoenix Thai restaurant wins prestigious James Beard Award
PHOENIX – The chef at a downtown Phoenix Thai restaurant won a 2025 James Beard Award on Monday. Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong kept the title of best chef in the Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Oklahoma) in Arizona for a second consecutive year.
On a cloudy morning in May, Yotaka “Sunny” Martin stands at a large black stone mortar and pestle, adding garlic and peppercorns. While she deftly bashes the ingredients into a paste ...
In early 2019, self-taught chefs Yotaka Promtun-Martin and her husband, Alex Martin, launched Lom Wong, an East Valley dinner series that offers Thai food like no other restaurant in metro ...
Yotaka Promtun-Martin and her husband Alex Martin started Lom Wong in 2019 as an intimate dinner party in their home in Scottsdale and over the years it has evolved to become one of Phoenix's ...
Each week since late October, husband-and-wife team Alex and Yotaka Martin have spent Wednesday through Friday cooking just a few meals available for Friday takeout. They aim, Alex says ...
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