James Beard Restaurants in Portland, ME

Leeward tops the list, a Delicious-rated pasta room with a 2024 Finalist nod. Below it, nine Damn Good spots and a run of Finalists and Semifinalists stretching back to 2012, plus three outright Winners — Fore Street, Eventide, and Allagash. Recognition isn't our rating, though: Eventide and Miyake land at Worth Trying despite Beard hardware, and Boda's lone Semifinalist nod only gets it On the Radar. The medals are real. So are the scores.