James Beard Foundation announces 2024 finalists. Did New Jersey chefs make it?
On Wednesday, April 3, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2024 Restaurant and Chef Award finalists — and none of the Garden State-based semifinalists made the list. Semifinalists for Best Chef in the Mid-Atlantic region included Dane DeMarco of Gass & Main in Haddonfield and Nur-E Gulshan Rahman of Korai Kitchen in Jersey City.