When L'Avenue was closed , Oakes opened her second restaurant , Boulevard . It is located in the only building still standing to have survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . Oakes has continued to work in the kitchen there ever since , although takes an interest in her third restaurant , Prospect . With the exception of 1996 , Oakes was nominated consecutively for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef from 1995 to 2000 , winning the award in 2001 . Likewise , Boulevard was nominated on eight consecutive occasions for the Best Restaurant Award , before finally winning in 2012 . She said that over the time she has spent at the restaurant , it was evolved from a neighbourhood restaurant into something that people view as a destination restaurant
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Nancy Oakes