Seen on Slashfood today: the James Beard Foundation has just announced its nominees for 2007. One of the categories is Outstanding Restaurant. In order to be eligible, a restaurant has to have been in business for at least 10 years. And one of the nominees this year is Durham's own Magnolia Grill. Woohoo! There's some pretty heavy competition in that field, including Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill, in Chicago, along with several places I'm not familiar with but which do not have the word "grill" in their names. Good luck to the Barkers.