New England received top honors in three categories at Monday night’s James Beard Awards in Chicago. Loma, a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, won for Best New Bar, with Portland, Maine, restaurant owner Dana Street, of Fore Street, Scales, Standard Baking Co. winning Outstanding Restaurateur.

Evan Hennessey from Stages in Dover, New Hampshire, was named Best Chef: Northeast. He beat out David DiStasi, of Materia Ristorante, in Bantam, Connecticut; Thomas Takashi Cooke, of Izakaya Minato, in Portland, Maine; Paul Trombly, of Fancy’s, in Burlington, Vermont; and Derek Wagner, of Nicks on Broadway, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Several other New England establishments were also nominated for James Beard Awards but did not receive awards on Monday night.

Original reporting: NBC10 Boston — read the source article.