New York City restaurants won three of the six major national awards: outstanding chef (Jungsik Yim of Jungsik ), outstanding hospitality ( Atomix) and outstanding restaurateur (Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr of Frenchette, Le Rock and Le Veau d’Or ).

Chefs and restaurants were honored on Monday night with James Beard Awards, one of the US culinary community’s highest accolades.

The James Beard Awards are known as one of the highest honors in the restaurant and hospitality industry. The ceremony took place on Monday night. Bûcheron in Minneapolis won the Best New Restaurant award. St. Paul's Karyn Tomlinson was named the Best Midwest Chef, beating out two other Minneapolis chefs.