{"id":220353,"date":"2026-06-16T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:00:26","slug":"philadelphia-restaurant-and-chef-score-big-at-james-beard-awards-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220353\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia restaurant and chef score big at James Beard Awards \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s food scene earned top honors at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesbeard.org\/awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 James Beard Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kalayaphilly.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kalaya<\/a>, the popular Southern Thai restaurant located in Fishtown, won the James Beard Foundation&#8217;s Outstanding Restaurant award. The foundation recognized the restaurant for its consistent excellence in both food and hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>The honor adds to Kalaya&#8217;s previous James Beard success. The restaurant won the foundation&#8217;s Best New Restaurant award in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Also recognized during the awards ceremony was Jesse Ito of <a href=\"https:\/\/royalizakaya.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Sushi &amp; Izakaya<\/a>. Ito won Best Chef Award for the Mid-Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Sushi &amp; Izakaya, located in the city&#8217;s Queen Village neighborhood, was also in the running for a Michelin star last year.<\/p>\n<p> The restaurant and bar is considered one of the most difficult reservations to secure in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s food scene earned top honors at the 2026 James Beard Awards. Kalaya, the popular Southern Thai restaurant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1515,838,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-220353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-food","tag-food-drink","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220353","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=220353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}