The James Beard Foundation Awards on Monday awarded a North Carolina-based Indian eatery named Chai Pani America's Most Outstanding Restaurant after being voted the best restaurant in the US.
The best restaurant in America is Chai Pani, which serves cheap Indian street food in North Carolina.
At the James Beard Foundation Awards in Chicago on Monday, the Asheville diner was awarded America's Most Outstanding Restaurant, beating out competitors including Brennan's in New Orleans.
After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 so the foundation could address systematic bias and as lockdowns to halt the spread of the Covid-19 virus prompted the temporary closure of numerous US restaurants, the honors were given for the first time in two years.
The awards also come at a time when Americans are paying the highest food costs in four decades, owing to rising inflation that is hurting the economy as a whole.
This year's award recipients and nominees were more diversified in order t...