This year’s semifinalists for the James Beard Awards dropped this morning, which — of course — included a number of Oregon-based restaurants and chefs, in categories beyond best chef: Northwest and Pacific.
This will be the first James Beard Awards held since 2019, after the James Beard Foundation examined and altered its structure in response to mounting criticism surrounding bias and a lack of diversity within the nominees and winners. As a result, some of the categories have changed or shifted, and the award ceremony has introduced new categories, like the emerging chef category.
This year’s awards include seven nominees from Portland proper, as well as two
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