{"id":270571,"date":"2025-04-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-north-americas-50-best-restaurants-announces-special-award-categories-and-academy-chairs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:50:02","slug":"north-americas-50-best-restaurants-anuncia-categorias-especiales-de-premios-y-academy-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/north-americas-50-best-restaurants-anuncia-categorias-especiales-de-premios-y-academy-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"NORTH AMERICA&#8217;S 50 BEST RESTAURANTS ANNOUNCES SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORIES AND ACADEMY CHAIRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">April 16, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; 50 Best reveals <b><span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> 50 Best Restaurants&#8217;<\/b> special award categories and Academy Chairs for its premier year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg81a9left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg81a9left\" title=\"50 Best NA 2025 Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2629929\/50_Best_NA_2025_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"50 Best NA 2025 Logo\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b><u>Special Award Categories<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Champions of Change Award:\u00a0<\/b>A celebration of unsung heroes of the hospitality sector who are driving positive action and creating a more inclusive society.<\/li>\n<li><b>Art of Hospitality Award:\u00a0<\/b>A special recognition for excellence in restaurant service and dining experiences.<\/li>\n<li><b>One To Watch Award:\u00a0<\/b>Identifying a rising-star restaurant which the 50 Best organization believes has the potential to feature in a future edition of the <span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> 50 Best Restaurants list.<\/li>\n<li><b>Icon Award<\/b>: A celebration of an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the hospitality industry.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> Best Pastry Chef Award<\/b>: Highlighting excellence in the fields of desserts and pastry.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> Best Sommelier Award<\/b>: A recognition of an individual displaying innovation, knowledge and customer service in the world of wine.<\/li>\n<li><b>Chefs&#8217; Choice Award<\/b>: A peer-voted accolade in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> 50 Best Restaurants program. It honors a chef who has had a positive impact over the last year, as chosen by the chefs leading the restaurants in this year&#8217;s list.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sustainable Restaurant Award<\/b>: This independently audited award champions a restaurant in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span> which has demonstrated an outstanding effort towards sustainability.<\/li>\n<li><b>Best in Destination Awards<\/b>: The highest-ranked restaurant in each of the eight sub-regions will be named as The Best Restaurant in that respective region.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Best Restaurant in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span><\/b>: The No.1 restaurant in the ranking will be named The Best Restaurant in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>, sponsored by S.Pellegrino &amp; <span class=\"xn-person\">Acqua Panna<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>Academy Chairs<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The North America Academy Chairs are chosen for their expertise and networks and are tasked with selecting a panel that ensures a diverse culinary representation.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Adrian\u00a0Brijbassi, <i>Canada West <\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Jamila Robinson<\/span>, <i><span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> Northeast<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Lesley\u00a0Chesterman, <i>Canada East<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Lyndsay Green<\/span>, <i><span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> Midwest<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Mike Jordan,\u00a0<i><span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> South<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Ren\u00e9e\u00a0Suen, <i>Canada Central<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Virginia Miller,\u00a0<i><span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> West<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Nneka Nurse<\/span>, <i><span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span><\/i> <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information on <span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> 50 Best Restaurants: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworlds50best.com\/northamerica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.theworlds50best.com\/northamerica<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Media centre:<br \/><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/mediacentre.theworlds50best.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mediacentre.theworlds50best.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2629929\/50_Best_NA_2025_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2629929\/50_Best_NA_2025_Logo.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  50 Best<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">April 16, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; 50 Best reveals <b><span class=\"xn-location\">North America&#8217;s<\/span> 50 Best Restaurants&#8217;<\/b> special award categories and Academy Chairs for its premier year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg81a9left\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"width: 100%;text-align: left\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg81a9left&quot; title=&quot;50 Best NA 2025 Logo&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/2629929\/50_Best_NA_2025_Logo.jpg&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270571"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270579,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270571\/revisions\/270579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}