News James Beard Awards 2017: Chef and Restaurant Winners, the Complete List This year's awards were presented at the Lyric Opera in Chicago at a ceremony hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson. By Danica Lo Updated on May 24, 2017 Share Tweet Pin Email James Beard Foundation Award. Photo: Getty Images The James Beard Foundation Awards were presented in Chicago tonight at a ceremony hosted by Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson (don't forget to check out last week's James Beard Media Awards' complete list of winners, announced last week in New York City). Here is this year's list of chef and restaurant winners: 2017 James Beard Foundation Restaurant Design Award Winners 75 Seats and Under (For the best restaurant design or renovation in North America since January 1, 2014) Firm: AvroKO Designers: Kristina O'Neal, William Harris, Adam Farmerie, Greg Bradshaw Project: SingleThread, Healdsburg, California 76 Seats and Over (For the best restaurant design or renovation in North America since January 1, 2014 Firm: Meyer Davis Designers: Will Meyer, Gray Davis, Katie McPherson Project: St. Cecilia, Atlanta Design Icon Grand Central Oyster Bar, New York 2017 James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Award Winners Best New Restaurant (Presented by True Refrigeration®) Le Coucou NYC Outstanding Baker Mark Furstenberg Bread Furst Washington, D.C. Outstanding Bar Program Arnaud's French 75 Bar New Orleans Outstanding Chef (Presented by All-Clad Metalcrafters) Michael Solomonov Zahav Philadelphia Outstanding Pastry Chef (Presented by Lavazza) Ghaya Oliveira Daniel NYC Outstanding Restaurant (Presented by S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water) Topolobampo Chicago Outstanding Restaurateur Stephen Starr Starr Restaurants (Le Coucou, Serpico, Upland, and others) Philadelphia Outstanding Service Blue Hill at Stone Barns Pocantico Hills, NY Outstanding Wine Program (Presented by Robert Mondavi Winery) Canlis Seattle Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional Sam Calagione Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton, DE Rising Star Chef of the Year (Presented by S.Pellegrino® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water) Zachary Engel Shaya New Orleans Best Chefs in America Best Chef: Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH) Sarah Grueneberg Monteverde Chicago Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (D.C., DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA) Greg Vernick Vernick Food & Drink Philadelphia Best Chef: Midwest (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI Kevin Nashan Sidney Street Cafe St. Louis Best Chef: New York City (Five Boroughs) Marco Canora Hearth Best Chef: Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY State, RI, VT) Andrew Taylor and Mike Wiley Eventide Oyster Co. Portland, ME Best Chef: Northwest (AK, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY) Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez Denton Ox Portland, OR Best Chef: South (AL, AR, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, FL, LA, MS) Rebecca Wilcomb Herbsaint New Orleans Best Chef: Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV Steven Satterfield Miller Union Atlanta Best Chef: Southwest (AZ, CO, NM, OK, TX, UT Hugo Ortega Hugo's Houston Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV) Corey Lee Benu San Francisco Lifetime Achievement Award Nora Pouillon, Restaurant Nora Humanitarian of the Year Denise Cerreta, One World Everybody Eats America's Classic Award Winners Bertha's Kitchen, Charleston, South Carolina Gioia's Deli, St. Louis, Missouri La Taqueria, San Francisco, California Sahadi's, Brooklyn, New York Schultz's Crab House, Essex, Maryland Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit