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Looking for your next dining destination? The James Beard Foundation announced its 2024 restaurant and chef award winners at a live ceremony at the Lyric Opera...

Bay Area chefs and restaurants come up empty at the James Beard Foundation awards. Considered the Oscars of the food world, the awards were held on Monday at

From the red carpet to the after-party dance floor, the restaurant industry showed up and showed out at the 2024 James Beard Awards restaurant and chef gala.

See the winners of this year's prestigious culinary awards.

Local names that made the cut include a chef from Los Angeles and a bakery in Long Beach.

Sacramento Chef Up For Prestigious James Beard Award - Sacramento, CA - Chef Buu "Billy" Ngo, founder, chef and partner at Kru, is among five nominees named finalists for the Best Chef: California category.

Animae Executive Chef Tara Monsod is the San Diego chef to be named a finalist for a James Beard Award in the category of Best California Chef.

Los Angeles has received finalist nominations for Outstanding Bakery, Best Chef: California, and more for this year’s James Beard Foundation Awards

In the 34 years the James Beard Foundation has given out culinary awards, no San Diego chef has ever made it past the semifinalist round until now

The Napa Valley chef Rogelio Garcia, of Auro in Calistoga, is one of five finalists for the Best Chef California award from the James Beard Foundation.