2024 James Beard Award Winners: Full Listing of Cooks and Eating places

Tonight, the James Beard Basis introduced the winners of its Restaurant and Chef Awards. The annual occasion introduced out cooks, restaurateurs, and different hospitality business professionals all dressed to the nines to take residence medals for Greatest New Restaurant, Rising Chef, 12 regional greatest chef classes, and extra.

Cooks Nyesha Arrington, Richard Blais, Amanda Freitag, and Marcus Samuelsson presided over the ceremony, which was stuffed with emotional speeches as dozens of hospitality professionals obtained what are among the many highest honors within the business.

Some highlights: Gregory Gourdet’s regional greatest chef award for Kann, in Portland, Oregon was his third James Beard win in as a few years; he referred to as for better inclusivity and an finish to the sample of generational trauma in eating places. Michael Rafidi, chef of Washington D.C.’s Albi, devoted his Excellent Chef award to Palestine. Greatest New Restaurant went to one in every of Eater’s 2023 Greatest New Eating places, Dakar NOLA of New Orleans; its chef Serigne Mbaye teared up as he acknowledged his staff, a few of whom had taken their first flights to attend the ceremony.

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Throughout the regional greatest chef classes, it was a giant evening for small cities: David Standridge received Greatest Chef: Northeast for the Shipwright’s Daughter, positioned in Mystic, Connecticut; Harley Peet took residence the Greatest Chef: Mid-Atlantic award for Bas Rouge in Easton, Maryland; and Paul Smith’s Greatest Chef: Southeast win for 1010 Bridge marks the first-ever win for a West Virginia restaurant in a predominant class (the state did have a 2019 America’s Classics Winner).

The Beards highlighted restaurant variety by way of delicacies as nicely. Hajime Sato turned the primary sushi chef to win in his class for his work at Sozai in Clawson, Michigan. And the Greatest Chef: Texas win went to Ana Liz Pulido of Ana Liz Taqueria in Mission, Texas, who delivered her acceptance speech in Spanish, ending it with a triumphant “Viva Mexico.”

On Saturday, the muse introduced the winners of the James Beard Media Awards in classes spanning the cookbook publishing and meals journalism worlds. Yow will discover the complete record of these winners right here. And beneath, the complete record of 2024 James Beard Award winners.

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2024 James Beard Awards: Restaurant and Chef Award Winners

Excellent Chef

Michael Rafidi, Albi, Washington, D.C.

Excellent Restaurant

Langbaan, Portland, Oregon

Excellent Restaurateur

Erika Whitaker and Kelly Whitaker, Id Est Hospitality Group (The Wolf’s Tailor, BRUTØ, Basta, and others), Boulder, Colorado

Greatest New Restaurant

Dakar NOLA, New Orleans

Excellent Hospitality

Lula Cafe, Chicago

Rising Chef

Masako Morishita, Perry’s, Washington, D.C.

Excellent Pastry Chef or Baker

Atsuko Fujimoto, Norimoto Bakery, Portland, Maine

Excellent Bakery

ZU Bakery, Portland, Maine

Excellent Wine and Different Drinks Program

Lula Drake Wine Parlour, Columbia, South Carolina

Excellent Bar

Jewel of the South, New Orleans

Greatest Chef: New York State

Charlie Mitchell, Cloverhill, Brooklyn, New York

Greatest Chef: Mid-Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)

Harley Peet, Bas Rouge, Easton, Maryland

Greatest Chef: South (AL, AR, FL, LA, MS, PR)

Valerie Chang, Maty’s, Miami

Greatest Chef: Northwest and Pacific (AK, HI, OR, WA)

Gregory Gourdet, Kann, Portland, Oregon

Greatest Chef: Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

David Standridge, The Shipwright’s Daughter, Mystic, Connecticut

Greatest Chef: Midwest (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI)

Christina Nguyen, Hai Hai, Minneapolis

Greatest Chef: California

Lord Maynard Llera, Kuya Lord, Los Angeles

Greatest Chef: Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)

Matt Vawter, Rootstalk, Breckenridge, Colorado

Greatest Chef: Southwest (AZ, NM, NV, OK)

Rene Andrade, Bacanora, Phoenix

Greatest Chef: Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV)

Paul Smith, 1010 Bridge, Charleston, West Virginia

Greatest Chef: Nice Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH)

Hajime Sato, Sozai, Clawson, Michigan

Greatest Chef: Texas

Ana Liz Pulido, Ana Liz Taqueria, Mission, Texas

The next wins have been beforehand introduced:

2024 America’s Classics

• Mandalay, San Francisco
• Vietnam Restaurant, Philadelphia
• Pheasant Restaurant and Lounge, Brookings, South Dakota
• Sylvia’s Restaurant, New York Metropolis
• Wade’s Restaurant, Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Peppermill Restaurant and Fireplace Lounge, Las Vegas

2024 James Beard Basis Lifetime Achievement Award

Ruth Reichl

2024 James Beard Basis Humanitarian of the 12 months

The LEE Initiative

2024 Management Awards

• Muhammad Abdul-Hadi, Founder/Proprietor, Down North Pizza and Down North Basis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director, North American Marine Alliance (NAMA) and Director, Nationwide Household Farm Coalition (NFFC), Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Helga Garza, Govt Director, Agri-Cultura Community / La Cosecha, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Mai Nguyen, Farmer, Farmer Mai, Sonoma, California
• Rising Management: Christa Barfield, Founder and Chief Govt Officer, FarmerJawn, West Chester, Pennsylvania

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