Right here Are the 2025 Rammy Awards Winners

D.C.’s resident eating affiliation introduced the winners of the forty third annual Rammy Awards on Sunday, August 3, offering a snapshot of the restaurant trade across the nation’s capital. Restaurant Affiliation Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) doled out the awards — and created some controversy over a photograph mishap involving two embellished pastry cooks — throughout a black-tie soiree on the Walter E. Washington Conference Heart.

Peruvian chef Carlos Delgado continues to rack up main accolades for his work at Shaw’s Michelin-starred tasting room Causa and its tropical sibling Amazonia up prime. Weeks after taking residence the James Beard Award for Finest Chef: Mid-Atlantic, he received the Rammy for D.C.’s Finest Chef of the Yr. Causa/Amazonia additionally took residence the 2024 Rammy for Formal Wonderful Eating Restaurant. This yr, that Rammy went to Shaw’s polished vegetable pad Mita, which can be a member of D.C.’s Michelin-starred membership.

Class modifications in recent times included a transfer from Pastry Chef of the Yr to a more-expansive Pastry Chef or Baker of the Yr and the addition of a Finest Bar class. 4 publicly voted classes (Gathering Place, Bar, Brunch, and Sandwich Spot of the Yr) have been open to any eligible restaurant or meals service operation within the space, no matter RAMW membership. For the primary time, the Quick Informal Restaurant class was picked by the judges panel.

La’ Shukran, the Union Market’s Levantine scorching spot from chef Michael Rafidi, took residence two titles: Finest New Restaurant and Pastry Chef (Alicia Wang). The latter award got here with some drama connected to it. Wang’s picture was mistakenly proven on the display (and within the printed program) as that of fellow nominee and two-time James Beard Award finalist Susan Bae from Moon Rabbit. Wang – who additionally runs the pastry program at Albi and Yellow – didn’t go onstage, and her staff accepted the award on her behalf. RAMW didn’t problem an official public apology relating to the much-talked-about snafu. Eater reached out to RAMW and Wang for remark. Bae, who was not in attendance, expressed her “disappointment” relating to the Rammy picture blunder in an 11:20 p.m. Instagram story that has since been deleted. (Within the submit, she ate her emotions with a fritter from Again Door Donut in Martha’s Winery, the place she had a beforehand scheduled dinner.)

Right here’s the complete listing of 2025 winners that took residence a coveted Washington Monument-shaped glass trophy, with publicly voted classes denoted by an asterisk:

Informal Restaurant of the Yr

Carlos Delgado – Causa/Amazonia

Cocktail Program of the Yr

Formal Wonderful Eating Restaurant of the Yr

New Restaurant of the Yr

Pastry Chef or Baker of the Yr

Alicia Wang – Yellow/Albi/La’ Shukran

Seng Luangrath – Baan Mae, Padaek, and Thip Khao

Rising Culinary Star of the Yr

Service Program of the Yr

Upscale Informal Restaurant of the Yr

Lorena Reyes – Founding Farmers

Allied Member of the Yr

Juan Sanchez – Cafe du Parc and Willard’s Peacock Alley

Quick Informal Restaurant of the Yr

*Favourite Gathering Place of the Yr

Tune Inn Restaurant and Bar

*Hottest Sandwich Spot of the Yr

Nominees should be members of RAMW, and several other classes have necessities relating to the size of time a restaurant has been operational; earlier winners aren’t eligible to say the identical class for 5 years after a win. An nameless panel of judges in meals and media finally chooses nominees and honorees throughout most meals and beverage classes.

RAMW additionally introduced Honorary Milestone Awards to legacy eating places across the DMV which have reached “important anniversaries of service”:

RAMW beforehand introduced a number of 2025 management awards on the Hamilton Lodge on July 1 (Ruth Gresser, Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award; Virginia Ali and The Ben’s Chili Bowl Basis, John G. Laytham Distinctive Management Award; and Linda Roth, Honorary Rammy Award).