2025 James Beard Awards: Complete Restaurant Winners List

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, 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, a menu anchored in classical technique make it one of the more serious French dining rooms in the Rockefeller Center corridor.

Jungsik New York helped move Korean fine dining in Manhattan from novelty to serious dining category. The TriBeCa restaurant links Korean structure and fermentation with contemporary tasting-menu technique, backed by James Beard recognition, La Liste scoring, Opinionated About Dining placement, a cellar noted for Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, California, Italy, Germany.

Atomix is where New York's Korean fine-dining conversation becomes precise, formal, deeply contemporary. The counter format, illustrated course cards, Junghyun Park's modern Korean cooking turn the meal into a study of accompaniment, sequence, cultural translation rather than a conventional luxury tasting menu.

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, 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. 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.

Lom Wong brought serious Thai cooking to downtown Phoenix and earned a 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest in the process. Chef Anthony Taormina 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. 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 Belly of the Beast 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, 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, 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, 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 reads Los Angeles through Taiwanese American fine dining rather than through imported tasting-menu orthodoxy. Jon Yao's cooking carries the speed, heat, precision of Chinese technique into a composed dinner format, while Ryan Bailey's beverage program has become a major part of the restaurant's national standing.

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, 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, 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 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.