Tonight, at a Star-Studded ceremony at Lyric Opera in Chicago, the James Barbas Foundation announced the winners of 2025 James Beard Awards, considered the highest accolade for the chefs and restaurants in America. Eater is Host the living alive hereAnd in the night, we will update this post with winners as they let live and culinary professionals accept their shiny medal in JBF.
This night at the restaurant and chef awards followed Saturday Padma Lakshmi's Media AwardsCelebrating food media working in cookbooks, journalism, and television and audio. For 35th-chef restaurants and chef awards, Nyesha Harrington and Andrew Zimmern Act as the ceremony host.
Winners tonight, chosen from A list of finalists announced April 2Follow previously announced 2025 Beard Award: Reporter and historian Toni Tipton-Martin (Who Gets the Lifetime Accessement Award), Cafe Momentum Founder Chad Houser . Edwins & Restaurant Institute leadership), Anthony Edwards, Jr., (co-founder of Black-owned guide guide fOOD), Seanicaa Edwards Herron (founder and Executive Director of Heirs Heirs Foundation), and Dune Lankard (president and planner of Konservata native).
In the evening, winners will live here:
2025 James Beard Awards: Restaurant Winners and Chef Award
Phila Dorn, Philadelphia,
Unusual pastry chef or baker
Cat Cox, Bay Bird Bootery, Tulsa, OK
Jinju Patisserie, Portland, O
The identity at the cocktail, San Juan, PR
Unusual Cocktail Service Professional
Ignacio Jiménez, Suprusing, New York, NYN
Extraordinary wine and other beverage program
Charleston, Baltimore, MD
Exceptional liquor service professional
Arjav Ezeviel, Birdie's, Austin, TX
The following victories previously announced:
2025 James Beard America's Classics
• Bar-BQ in LemChicago
• The Pioneer SaloonKetchum, ID
• Island by Sullivan's CastleBoston
• Lucky aspirationAnchorage, and
• Dooky chaseNew Orleans, LA
• Gaido'sGalveston, TX
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