2025 James Beard Awards: Complete Restaurant Winners List

Kumiko has accumulated one of the most decorated award records of any bar in the United States, including the 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar, a World's 50 Best ranking, and a North America Top 10 placement. Operating Wednesday through Sunday from a West Loop address on Lake Street, the bar occupies a serious position in Chicago's cocktail scene and in the national conversation about American bar culture.

Frasca Food & Wine on Pearl Street holds a Michelin star and the 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant, making it the most decorated table in Colorado. The kitchen draws exclusively from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a mountainous northeast Italian region where Slavic, Austrian, and Mediterranean influences converge, matched by a 910-selection wine list with deep Italian and French depth.

Superbueno on First Avenue in the East Village holds North America's #2 bar ranking from World's 50 Best (2025) and a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. The bar runs a technically driven Mexican-American drinks program alongside a food menu built around refined cantina classics, all delivered through a hospitality approach that has made it one of New York's most-visited bars.

Frenchette arrived in TriBeCa in 2018 and has since grown into the ageless French bistro it always promised to be, earning a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur and a place on La Liste's global ranking. Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr run a 100-seat room at 241 West Broadway where classic bistro cooking, smoked trout beignets to tarte au chocolat, sits alongside quietly confident service and a wine program recognised with a White Star from Star Wine List.

At 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Le Rock translates the French brasserie format for one of Midtown Manhattan's most architecturally charged addresses. The team behind Frenchette brought the same Francophile conviction here, earning OAD recognition and a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur. Dim Art Deco interiors, a high-velocity bar program, and a menu anchored in classical technique make it one of the more serious French dining rooms in the Rockefeller Center corridor.

Among New York's three-Michelin-star restaurants, Jungsik occupies a category it effectively created: Korean fine dining built on French technique, not French fine dining with Korean accents. Chef Jungsik Yim's nine-course tasting menu in TriBeCa earned a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef and 98 points from La Liste, placing it in the company of the city's most decorated tables.

Atomix holds three Michelin stars and ranked No. 1 in North America's 50 Best Restaurants 2025, making it the continent's most decorated Korean fine dining address. Chef Junghyun Park's 12-course tasting menu operates from a 14-seat basement counter in NoMad, Manhattan, where custom ceramics and course cards frame each dish within its Korean culinary context.

Established in 1937 and revived in 2024 by Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr of Frenchette, Le Veau d'Or is the Upper East Side's clearest argument for classical French cooking as a living discipline. A prix-fixe menu anchored by pâté en croûte and poulet à l'estragon, a 100-label all-natural wine list, and a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur mark it as the most credentialed bistro revival in New York.

Mawn is a Cambodian-led noodle house on South 9th Street in Philadelphia, where chef Phila Lorn — recipient of the 2025 James Beard Emerging Chef Award — serves bright, salty-sour dishes rooted in Southeast Asian cooking with no fixed borders. A B.Y.O. format and a dining room run with the warmth of a domestic space make reservations here among the most sought-after in the city since opening in March 2023.

Gift Horse on Westminster Street brings New England seafood into conversation with Korean technique, under chef Sky Haneul Kim, who won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast. A Google rating of 4.8 from 126 reviews and an Esquire Best New Restaurants listing from 2023 signal a kitchen that earned its reputation quickly. Providence's most talked-about table is at 272 Westminster St.

Kitchen Istanbul is an elevated neighborhood restaurant that combines Turkish regional cuisine with the best local ingredients. They believe in real food, honest wine, and genuine hospitality. Recently named one of the Bay Area's Top 100 Restaurants by the SF Chronicle and one of San Francisco's standout spots by the LA Times, their little corner of Clement St. has become both a local favorite and a destination for visitors. Led by owner Emrah Kilicoglu, Kitchen Istanbul is run by a close-knit team dedicated to creating memorable experiences for guests. Chef Busra Ayvaz leads the kitchen. Her deep knowledge of Turkey's culinary history and passion for seasonal ingredients is reflected in her menu's classic-meets-contemporary approach. The wine program, curated by Joseph DiGrigoli, reflects a producer-first philosophy and a focus on thoughtful farming and vinification. It has been recognized by the James Beard Foundation and Wine Spectator.

Lom Wong brought serious Thai cooking to downtown Phoenix and earned a 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest in the process. Chef Yotaka Martin works through the aromatic foundations of Thai cuisine — galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime — at a level that ranks the restaurant third on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list for 2023. For Phoenix, it marks a shift in how the city thinks about Southeast Asian food.

Peninsula on East Nashville's Eastland Avenue holds a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand and a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southeast, placing it among the most decorated Southern American kitchens in the region. Chef Jake Howell's cooking draws a loyal local crowd to a neighbourhood that has quietly become one of the city's most interesting dining corridors. A Google rating of 4.6 across 350 reviews signals consistent execution rather than hype-driven novelty.

Birdie's Austin pioneers "fine-casual" dining where Chef Tracy Malechek-Ezekiel and James Beard Award-winning sommelier Arjav Ezekiel serve Michelin-quality contemporary American cuisine through an innovative counter-service model, earning recognition as Food & Wine's 2023 Restaurant of the Year.

James Beard Award-winning Chef Thomas Bille transforms his Mexican-American heritage into extraordinary fine dining at Belly of the Beast Spring, where Michelin-recognized dishes like cherry mole duck and saag paneer mole verde redefine contemporary Mexican cuisine through bold global influences.

ITAMAE holds a Michelin star and a 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: South, placing it among Miami's most credentialed Peruvian kitchens. Operating out of Miami's Wynwood-adjacent Design District corridor on NE 1st Ave, the restaurant applies Japanese technique to Peruvian ingredients — a Nikkei lineage that has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings and Esquire recognition since 2023.

JinJu Patisserie elevates Portland's culinary scene through James Beard Award-winning pastries that blend French technique with Korean artistry. Founded by Las Vegas-trained virtuosos Jin Caldwell and Kyurim Lee, this intimate Williams District bakery creates hyper-laminated croissants, innovative bonbons, and petit gateaux that regularly sell out among devoted locals and national food enthusiasts.

Semma brought Tamil Nadu's regional cooking to Greenwich Village in 2022 and has not softened its position since. Chef Vijay Kumar's 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York State and a Michelin star confirm what the room already signals: this is South Indian food argued on its own terms, with fermented dosas, gunpowder spice, and falling-apart lamb that answer to no fusion brief.

Kumiko occupies a precise position in Chicago's Japanese dining scene: part tasting-menu restaurant, part James Beard Award-winning bar program, with the two disciplines operating at the same level of craft. The kitchen's Japanese-inflected tasting menu and Julia Momosé's spirits collection hold equal weight here, making it one of the few $$$$-tier venues in the city where the drink program is not an afterthought.

Myriel in St. Paul's Mac-Groveland neighborhood translates a Scandinavian-inspired, forage-and-farm philosophy into a restrained tasting menu that earned chef Karyn Tomlinson the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Midwest. Vintage china, muted neutrals, and whole-animal sourcing from local farms define the room and the plate in equal measure. It is among the most decorated destination-dining addresses in the Twin Cities.

Kato occupies a spare, art-hung room in the redeveloped LA Terminal Mart in Downtown LA, where a 10-course tasting menu reframes Taiwanese and San Gabriel Valley references through precise contemporary technique. Jon Yao holds a Michelin star and the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: California. The wine program, built around 2,665 selections and an exclusive Kato savagnin bottling, competes for attention with the kitchen.

Causa occupies a 20-seat tasting counter on the first floor of Blagden Alley NW, where chef Carlos Delgado's Nikkei menu moves through coastal Peru, the Andes, and the Amazon in a single sitting. The restaurant earned a Michelin star in 2024 and the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic in 2025, placing it among Washington D.C.'s most decorated small-format rooms. Open Wednesday through Saturday evenings only.

Amano in Caldwell, Idaho earned the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mountain under Salvador Alamilla, placing it among the most decorated restaurants in the Mountain region. Located at 802 Arthur St, it represents a rare concentration of culinary recognition in a small Idaho city. For anyone tracing where serious American cooking is happening outside the coastal centers, Caldwell is now on that map.

Charleston holds a 2025 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program alongside AAA 5 Diamond recognition, placing it among the most decorated dining rooms in Maryland. Under chef Cindy Wolf, the restaurant operates from Baltimore's Inner Harbor at 1000 Lancaster Street, drawing regulars who treat an evening here as a structured ritual rather than a casual dinner. The beverage program, in particular, sets a national benchmark rarely matched outside major coastal cities.

Two Michelin stars, a 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes, and a La Liste score of 93 points place Oriole at the serious end of Chicago's tasting-menu tier. Chef Noah Sandoval's progressive American format draws on French and Japanese technique, served in a converted West Loop warehouse where guests arrive by freight elevator and dine beneath a ceiling collage above an open kitchen.

A James Beard Award-winning cocktail bar on the Lower East Side, Superbueno brings Mexican-inflected drinking to First Avenue with the kind of program serious enough to earn Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service recognition in 2025. The bar sits within New York's shift toward transparent, technique-led cocktail formats rather than theatrical concealment. Google reviewers rate it 4.3 across 254 reviews.

A Montrose fixture on Westheimer Road, Common Bond Cafe & Bakery sits in Houston's mid-tier all-day dining bracket and has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats rankings in 2024 and 2025. The format spans café service and serious baked goods in a neighborhood that also houses some of the city's most decorated fine dining rooms.