Tony Maws, chef/owner of Craigie on MainA cross-town move to a new address — this time with adequate elbow room to showcase his personal brand of food alchemy — has turned Tony Maws’s bistro into a contender for the toughest ticket in town for a primetime table (even on weeknights) and created a bar scene packed with cocktail connoisseurs, not to mention other top Boston chefs enjoying a night out. This is just Maws’s year. His slightly piratical smile has been on the cover of every publication locally — and beyond. In addition to all the previous kudos for the maniacally hard-working and inventive chef, Maws recently became a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation 2009 award for best chef in the Northeast. Not bad for a guy whose previous haunt was a cramped basement space on an out-of-the-way residential street in Cambridge.
