The James Beard Award is a prestigious honor for chefs across the United States. Here's how the regions for each award are ...

"Service in the restaurant industry" sounds bland. Florence Kemp was honored for cooking "scratch-made soul food that ...

The James Beard Foundation Awards are among the highest honors in the American food world. Finalists for the restaurant and chef awards were revealed on April 3, following the semifinalists ...

The James Beard Foundation now ‘interrogates’ its award nominees By Steve Cuozzo Published June 3, 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET ...

The entry and recommendation period for the James Beard Foundation 2025 awards is officially open. Each one of us has until Nov. 29 at 11:59 p.m. to submit restaurant and chef recommendations.

The James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards took place on June 16, 2025, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. This year’s ceremony for the Restaurant and Chef Awards crowned winners from the ...

“The James Beard Awards are known as the standard-bearers of excellence in the industry. We take that very seriously,” said Clare Reichenbach, the foundation’s CEO.

The James Beard Foundation is hoping updates to the way chefs are scouted, vetted, and voted on will increase the diversity of award winners, and avoid the scandal and protest that comes when it ...

The James Beard Foundation Awards Gala takes place at 6 p.m. Monday at the Civic Opera House. For those unfamiliar with this annual event, here are the basics, in Q&A form: ...

The nonprofit James Beard Foundation was established more than 30 years ago, shortly after “pioneer foodie” James Beard’s death, “to celebrate, support and elevate the people behind ...

This year, the Beard Awards were back for the first time since 2019. During the two-year pause, the Foundation grappled with a diversity problem, systemic bias and the upheaval COVID wrought in ...

The James Beard Foundation, which administers the awards, also announced a slate of other changes aimed at diversifying its judging committees — a move it ultimately hopes will lead to a more ...