{"id":85348,"date":"2025-04-03T08:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=85348"},"modified":"2025-04-03T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:52:53","slug":"gusto-bread-is-a-james-beard-award-finalist-again-continuing-its-streak-of-accolades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/gusto-bread-is-a-james-beard-award-finalist-again-continuing-its-streak-of-accolades","title":{"rendered":"Gusto Bread is a James Beard Award finalist again \u2014 continuing its streak of accolades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the second consecutive year, Gusto Bread is a finalist for a James Beard Award, one of the highest honors in the restaurant industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The James Beard Foundation announced the finalists Wednesday for 25 categories. Gusto is one of five contenders in the outstanding bakery category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gusto, run by Arturo Enciso and his partner Ana Bel\u00e9n Salatino, serves up a variety of innovative pan dulce (sweet bread), artisan breads and savory pastries out of its store on Fourth Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arturo Enciso of Gusto Bread. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They specialize in baking with wild fermented sourdough culture and fresh corn masa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the New York Times<\/a> called Gusto Bread one of the best bakeries in the U.S., in part because of the Nixtamal Queen \u2014 which combines a kouign-amann pastry with sourdough and nixtamalized corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, local favorites Ammatoli and La Parolaccia Osteria made the list<\/a> of James Beard semifinalists for the 2024 awards. Gusto was the only Long Beach eatery to make it this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this year\u2019s outstanding bakery category, Gusto is up against: Atelier Ortega in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; JinJu Patisserie in Portland, Oregon; Starship Bagel in Dallas and Lewisville, Texas; and Super Secret Ice Cream in Bethlehem, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZU Bakery in Portland beat out Gusto to win the award in 2024. This year’s winners are scheduled to be announced June 16 at a ceremony in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gusto Bread, 2710 E. Fourth St., is open Wednesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. It is closed Monday and Tuesday.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gusto, which was nominated for the second year in a row, has soared to nationwide acclaim recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23521,"featured_media":85358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32323],"class_list":["post-85348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85348"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85361,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348\/revisions\/85361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85348"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=85348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=85348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}