James Beard Recognitions - Nashville 2025
Three restaurants. A national conversation Nashville has been earning for years.
The James Beard Foundation doesn't recognize potential. It recognizes restaurants that have already done the work. Peninsula is making the most ambitious case for what a Nashville restaurant can be right now — Chef Jake Howell's cooking is the kind of thing the recognition is overdue for. Tailor has spent years making the argument for Indian-inflected fine dining in America with the kind of precision and conviction that doesn't need a foundation's blessing to matter — but the blessing fits. The Catbird Seat has been one of the best tasting menu experiences in the country for over a decade. Not a list of restaurants on their way up. A list of restaurants that already arrived.