Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong restaurant in downtown Phoenix has won her first James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. The James Beard Awards — the Oscars of the restaurant industry — were ...

Yotaka Martin, chef of Lom Wong in Phoenix, won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. Several Phoenix chefs congratulated Martin on social media. The James Beard Awards — the ...

Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong was a finalist for Best Chef — Southwest. She opened Lom Wong in Phoenix in 2022 alongside her husband, Alex Martin. The restaurant specializes in regional Thai cuisine.

"Lom Wong has always been the type of place that decides to cook something, and then we cook it," Martin said. When: Oct. 11-13, during normal business hours.

Lom Wong, with its homey vibe and family recipes, is the restaurant equivalent. Bring a group and get the cold-and-sweet green mango salad along with the fried chicken you can dunk in Thai red ...

Chef Mark Tarbell and guests enjoy bold flavors at Little Miss BBQ, Vic and Ola's, and Lom Wong. Give your tastebuds a thrill. At Little Miss BBQ, the melt-in-your-mouth briskets and ribs have put ...

Lom Wong’s Yokata “Sunny” Martin won the prestigious James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Southwest, beating out other chefs from Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Oklahoma.

On Thursday, social media creator Juan Gonzalez, from the popular channel “That Was Epic,” showed up at Amici Pizza to give away pizza to the first 300 customers in line. Lom Wong’s Yokata ...