James Beard Awards

• Outstanding Restaurateur
• Outstanding Chef
• Outstanding Restaurant
• Emerging Chef
• Best New Restaurant
• Outstanding Bakery
• Outsanding Pastry Chef or Baker
• Outstanding Hospitality
• Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
• Outstanding Bar
• Best New Bar
• Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service
• Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service
• Best Chefs (by region):
  • California
  • Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH)
  • Mid-Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA)
  • Midwest (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD, WI)
  • Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)
  • New York State
  • Northeast (CT, MA, ME, MH, RI, VT)
  • Northwest & Pacific (AK, HI, OR, WA)
  • Southeast (GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, WV)
  • South (AL, AR, FL, LA, MS, PR)
  • Southwest (AZ, NM, NV, OK)
  • Texas
• America's Classics

• Baking and Desserts
• Beverage with Recipes
• Beverage without Recipes
• Bread
• Food Issues and Advocacy
• General
• International
• Literary Writing
• Reference, History, and Scholarship
• Professional and Restaurant
• Single Subject
• U.S. Foodways
• Vegetable-Focused Cooking
• Visuals
• Cookbook Hall of Fame
• Emerging Voice

• Audio Programming
• Audio Reporting
• Commercial Media
• Competition Visual Media
• Documentary Visual Media
• Docuseries Visual Media
• Instructional Visual Media
• Lifestyle Visual Media
• Social Media Account
• Travel Visual Media
• Emerging Voice
• Broadcast Media Hall of Fame

• Beverage
• Columns and Newsletters
• Craig Claiborne Distinguished Criticism Award
• Dining and Travel
• Feature Reporting
• Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication
• Foodways
• Health and Wellness
• Home Cooking
• Innovative Visual Storytelling
• Investigative Reporting
• Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award
• MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
• Narrative Photography
• Personal Essay with Recipes
• Personal Essay
• Profile
• Emerging Voice

Open Call for Entries are conducted and require a fee of $85.00 per entry (waivers provided upon request). Winners and nominees are selected from the entries.

Open Call for Recommendations are conducted in addition to recommendations provided by the Awards program’s voting body. Recommendations from the public are reviewed and considered by the Subcommittees when generating the semifinalist list. There are no entry fees for these programs.

Open Call for Recommendations from the public are reviewed and considered by the Foundation’s Impact Committee. There is no entry fee for this program.

There is no open call for entries. Prospective candidates are researched and recommended by Awards Committee members, subcommittee members, and judges from all Awards programs.