The Jean Banchet Awards for Culinary Excellence, Chicago's only restaurant awards that aren't attached to media company, just announced finalists for its 2024 awards in more than a dozen categories. This is a return for the long-running local awards, which celebrates Chicago's food and beverage industry: the Jean Banchet Awards took a break in 2023 while reorganizing into an independent nonprofit, per the Chicago Tribune.
The finalists for Restaurant of the Year include intimate omakase destination KyÅten, contemporary Korean restaurant Jeong, Middle Eastern favorite Galit, and Midwestern comfort restaurant Daisies.
The heavy-hitting contenders for Chef of the Year are Paul Fehribach (Big Jones), Genie Kwon and Tim Flores (Kasama), Stephen Gillanders (S.K.Y., Valhalla, Apolonia), and Paul Virant (Vie, Vistro Prime, Gaijin).
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