The 2025 James Beard Award winners were announced on Monday, June 16, and Portland picked up some hardware, as usual.
Portland’s big winners were Kyurim “Q” Lee and Jin Caldwell’s JinJu Patisserie, which won the award for Outstanding Bakery. It’s national recognition for a bakery that already has an enormous amount of local acclaim. Lee and Caldwell were both born in Korea and trained in Las Vegas before they fell in love and moved to Portland. When they opened up their bakery in 2019 they earned immediate accolades for their huge, flaky photogenic croissants and elegant bonbons; Willamette Week singled out their gianduja kouign amann as something that helped the
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