🏆 James Beard Awards: Dooky Chase's Restaurant was honored with one of the foundation's most prestigious awards last night — America's Classic. Our colleagues at Axios Chicago have more highlights from the so-called Oscars of the food world.

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.