After facing questions about its new processes, the James Beard Foundation held its annual gala in Chicago on Monday.

A Philadelphia restaurant with an eight-course tasting menu, a Haitian restaurant in the Pacific Northwest and a chef who focuses on a sustainable menu of oysters and wild vegetables in Washington, D.C., were three of the big winners at the 2023 James Beard Awards, widely considered the Oscars of the food world.

Headliners include Rob Rubba of Oyster Oyster in Washington, DC, Damarr Brown's Virtue in Chicago, Portland-based Kann by Gregory Gourdet, and Friday Saturday Sunday in Philadelphia.

The results from the 2023 James Beard Foundation Awards honoring restaurants and chefs in the U.S. An Asheville restaurant was among the finalists.

The James Beard Awards revealed its 2023 winners, including groundbreaking firsts for the annual ceremony, often called the Oscars of the food world.

A group of students from Kendall College as well as past Beard Award winners pose on the red carpet at the 2023 James Beard Awards. Barry Brechiesen At a red-carpet event tonight at the Lyric Opera in Chicago,

This wasn’t Alabama’s year at the 2023 James Beard Awards. A year after chef Adam Evans of Birmingham’s Automatic Seafood and Oysters was named Best Chef: South, no chefs or restaurants from Alabama were among the winners at tonight’s James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.