Chef Lord Maynard Llera of Los Angeles restaurant Kuya Lord won the Best Chef: California award at the 2024 James Beard Award Ceremony held in Chicago last June 10.
The James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards are a highly prestigious event often referred to as the “Oscars of food.”
What started as a pop-up restaurant, Kuya Lord eventually moved to a permanent storefront in Melrose Hill, California in 2022. The menu focuses on Filipino cuisine with classics like lucenachon (slow-cooked pork belly) and lechon kawali (twice-cooked pork belly).
Chef Llera’s Kuya Lord has also been named Los Angeles Times’101 Best Restaurants and Bon Appetit’s 24 Best New Restaurants for 2023.
The James Beard award puts Chef Llera and Kuya Lord on the national map of Filipino American restaurants alongside Chicago’s Kasama and Seattle’s Musang.
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