Here Is the Full List of James Beard Awards 2025 Winners
This evening's Restaurant and Chef Awards follow Saturday's Media Awards hosted by Padma Lakshmi, which celebrated food media working in cookbooks, journalism, and television and audio. For this 35th-annual Restaurant and Chef Awards, Nyesha Arrington and Andrew Zimmern acted as the ceremony hosts.
Tonight's award winners, selected from a finalists list announced on April 2, follow previously announced 2025 Beard Award recipients: journalist and historian Toni Tipton-Martin (who earned the Lifetime Achievement Award), Cafe Momentum founder Chad Houser (who received the Humanitarian of the Year Award), and the five winners of the Impact Award. Several winners addressed the current political moment directly in their speeches — three specifically emphatically declared 'fuck ICE' at the end of their remarks. The full list of winners, below:
Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, Frenchette, Le Veau d' Or, and Le Rock, New York, NY
Jungsik Yim, Jungsik, New York, NY
Frasca Food and Wine, Boulder, CO
Phila Lorn, Mawn, Philadelphia, PA
Bûcheron, Minneapolis, MN
JinJu Patisserie, Portland, OR
Cat Cox, Country Bird Bakery, Tulsa, OK
Charleston, Baltimore, MD
Identidad Cocktail Bar, San Juan, PR
Arjav Ezekiel, Birdie's, Austin, TX
Ignacio Jimenez, Superbueno, New York, NY
Jon Yao, Kato, Los Angeles, CA
Noah Sandoval, Oriole, Chicago, IL
Carlos Delgado, Causa and Amazonia, Washington, D.C.
Karyn Tomlinson, Myriel, St. Paul, MN
Salvador Alamilla, Amano, Caldwell, ID
Vijay Kumar, Semma, New York, NY
Sky Haneul Kim, Gift Horse, Providence, RI
Timothy Wastell, Antica Terra, Amity, OR
Nando Chang, Itamae AO, Miami, FL
Jake Howell, Peninsula, Nashville, TN
Yotaka Martin, Lom Wong, Phoenix, AZ
Thomas Bille, Belly of the Beast, Spring, TX
The following wins were previously announced:
• Lucky Wishbone, Anchorage, AK
• Dooky Chase, New Orleans, LA
• U.S. Representative Angie Craig (the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture)
• Anthony Edwards, Jr., (co-founder of Black-owned restaurants guide EatOkra)
• Seanicaa Edwards Herron (founder and executive director of the Freedmen Heirs Foundation)
• Dune Lankard (president and founder of Native Conservancy)
Disclosure: Some Vox Media staff members are part of the voting body for the James Beard Awards. Eater is partnering with the James Beard Foundation to livestream the awards in 2025. All editorial content is produced independently of the James Beard Foundation.
Additional photo illustration credits: Getty Images for the James Beard Foundation
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