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The impressive roster of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs was released yesterday and, according to Grub Street, they appropriately celebrated their newly distinguished honor with a party catered by Andrew Carmellini, Paul Liebrandt, and Daniel Humm.

2010 F&W Best New Chefs

Roy Choi Kogi - BBQ truck, Los Angeles
Matt Lightner - Castagna, Portland, OR
Clayton Miller - Trummer's on Main, Clifton, VA
Missy Robbins - A Voce, New York City
Jonathon Sawyer - The Greenhouse Tavern, Cleveland, OH
Alex Seidel - Fruition, Denver
Mike Sheerin - Blackbird, Chicago
John Shields - Town House, Chilhowie, VA
Jason Stratton - Spinasse, Seattle, WA
James Syhabout - Commis, Oakland, CA

See all the winners and past winners on Food & Wine's site or their new iPhone app.

Stephanie Izard and Lee Anne Wong at Best New Chefs 2009

Reminding y'all to follow @slashfood on Twitter tonight for breaking news and menu notes from tonight's Food & Wine Best New Chefs 2009 soiree. Chefs on deck for the night's grub include Former BNC winners Momofuku's David Chang, Scarpetta's Scott Conant and Anthos' Michael Psilakis as well as Top Chef champs Harold Dieterle and Stephanie Izard.

Tweets are anticipated to get a tad less carefully spell-checked as the night progresses and cocktails are, um, sampled. Forgive us.

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UPDATE: The Winners

You do follow our Twitter @slashfood, don'tcha? The Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs festivities commence at 6:30 p.m. on April 1, and Food & Wine Editor-In-Chief Dana Cowin has been dropping devilish little hints about the winners via Twitter all day long. First person to solve the mystery wins two tickets to tomorrow night's event.

Won't you Tweet with us? If we're really lucky, we'll even post some red-hot guest chef David Chang or "Top Chef" winner Harold Dieterle cell-phone camera action.

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