{"id":220064,"date":"2026-06-16T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220064\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:25:09","slug":"jesse-ito-chef-at-royal-sushi-izakaya-in-philadelphia-wins-james-beard-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220064\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Ito, chef at Royal Sushi &#038; Izakaya in Philadelphia, wins James Beard Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/dancerobot-jesse-ito-sansom-street-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jesse Ito<\/a>, a chef at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/exclusive-interview-with-eagles-ot-jordan-mailata-and-james-beard-nominated-chef-jesse-ito\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Royal Sushi &amp; Izakaya<\/a> in Philadelphia, won a prestigious James Beard Award Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ito beat out four other finalists to win the best chef award from the Mid-Atlantic region (Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia) at the annual James Beard Award ceremony in Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-2281777419.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"gettyimages-2281777419.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Jesse Ito (L) attends the 2026 James Beard Restaurant And Chef Awards on June 15, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jeff Schear\/Getty Images for the James Beard Foundation)<\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Other Philadelphia chefs \u2014 Amanda Shulman at Her Place Supper Club and Omar Tate and Cybille St. Aude-Tate at Honeysuckle \u2014 were among the nominees for the best chef in the Mid-Atlantic region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Ito, a chef at Royal Sushi &amp; Izakaya in Philadelphia, won a prestigious James Beard Award Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[72,45726,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-220064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-food-amp-drink","tag-james-beard-award","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}