Her Place

Kalaya won outstanding restaurant and Chef Jesse Ito of Royal Sushi & Izakaya won best chef, Mid-Atlantic at the 2026 James Beard Awards. Philly had seven total finalists across five categories.

Kalaya, Emmett, and the Lovers Bar at Friday Saturday Sunday all scored nominations for Outstanding Restaurant, Best New Restaurant, and Outstanding Bar, respectively.

The Michelin Guide provided some shocks on Tuesday night. Here's how accurate our readers were.

Friday Saturday Sunday, Her Place Supper Club, and Provenance each were awarded a Michelin star, capping a brilliant showing. Thirty-one other Philadelphia restaurants also brought home glory.

In our annual guide to the Philly dining scene, 40 new restaurants nab spots.

The arrival of the Michelin Guide will change Philly's dining scene. These are the restaurants with the best shot at winning Michelin stars for the 2025 Michelin Guide.

Every year, Inquirer critic Craig LaBan produces a list of his 10 favorite restaurants in the Philadelphia region. Here they are, mapped.

From a sushi counter doling out sublime slices of dry-aged toro to a rogue noodle shop producing only-in-South-Philly fusions, here are restaurant critic Craig LaBan's Top 10 for the year.

The chef, known for her in-house dinners, will bring her talents out of her house and to a new brick-and-mortar by the end of the year.

The warm chocolate chip cookie that My Loup and Her Place Supper Club chef Amanda Shulman presents at the end of every meal is the stuff of legends—and now we have the recipe for it.

“Pinch me,” said Amanda Shulman, who is having a very good year, what with a James Beard nomination, the opening of a second restaurant, and her wedding.

Philly's supper clubs, from Couch Cafe to Sante, bring diners into chefs' homes.