The RAMMY Awards, the D.C. region’s annual restaurant industry awards, are back for 2022 with plans to once again hold the event in person. It brings back some of the categories that had gone by the wayside during the pandemic, and follows an in-person event in September for the 2021 awards and a virtual RAMMYs in 2020.

Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, the region’s restaurant industry trade association, announced the nominees for this year’s awards program Tuesday night. Categories that were set aside during the pandemic, such as “Formal Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year” and “Best New Restaurant,” are back, along with a requirement that any nominee in that category be a member of the restaurant trade association.

Other RAMMY Awards categories that were newly formed to reflect the way locals ate and drank during the pandemic including “Hottest Sandwich Spot,” and “Outstanding Pop-up Concept,” remain. The association has trimmed some of those from the list, however; gone are “Most Innovative To-Go Packaging,” “Technology Trailblazer,” and even “Good Neighbor.”

As in the past, a panel of local judges chooses the winners in many of the categories, but several others are chosen by a public vote. Those include the categories “Best Neighborhood Gathering Place” and “Best Brunch.” The awards ceremony and gala will be held July 24 at the Washington Convention Center.

See this full list of honorees:

Joan Hisaoka Allied Member of the Year

• Congressional Seafood Co.
• CPA Eats
• Ecolab
• MarginEdge
• Saval Foodservice

New Restaurant of the Year

• Caruso’s Grocery
• Daru
• Dauphine’s
• L’Ardente
• Oyster Oyster

Cocktail Program of the Year

• Bresca
• Serenata
• Service Bar
• Silver Lyan
• The Imperial

Beer Program of the Year

• Boundary Stone
• Caboose Tavern
• Quarry House Tavern
• Shelter
• Sweetwater Tavern

Wine Program of the Year

• Albi
• Northside Social
• Queen’s English
• Reveler’s Hour
• Slate Wine Bar

Rising Culinary Star of the Year

• Will Fung, China Chilcano
• Christian Irabien, Muchas Gracias
• Kat Petonito, The Duck & The Peach, La Collina, The Wells
• Suresh Sundas, Daru
• Elias Taddesse, Mélange

Favorite Gathering Place of the Year*

• Casta’s Rum Bar
• Comet Ping Pong
• Pennyroyal Station
• St. Vincent Wine
• The Pug

Best Brunch of the Year*

• A&J Restaurant
• ala
• Blend 111
• Maialino Mare
• Nina May

Favorite Fast Bites*

• Happy Gyro
• Little Miner Taco
• Little Sesame
• Pogiboy
• Sunday Morning Bakehouse

Hottest Sandwich Spot*

• Cracked Eggery
• Mangialardo’s
• Queen Mother’s
• The Girl & The Vine
• Your Only Friend

Outstanding Pop-Up Concept*

• A Presto! Italian Foods
• Bun Papa
• Della Barba Pizza
• JUNE
• Tacos A La Madre

Splendid Holidays at Home*

• Bayou Bakery
• Convivial
• Kinship
• Stellina
• Unconventional Diner

Standout Family Meal Packages To Go*

• 2Fifty Texas BBQ
• Mintwood Place
• Muchas Gracias
• Neighborhood Provisions
• Thompson Italian

Employee of the Year

• Raphael Beltran, Et Voila
• Amanda Bell, All Purpose – Shaw
• Nicole Burdette, Taco Bamba – Springfield
• Oscar Iglesias, Moon Rabbit
  Herman Machado, The Salt Line – Navy Yard

Manager of the Year

• Gian Mario Cabiddu, Alta Strada, DC
• Sylvain Frances, Et Voila Restaurant
• Rob Heim, Shaw’s Tavern
• Atul Narain, Rasika and Rasika West End
• Laure Tartar, Bresca

Service Program of the Year

• Chloe
• Iron Gate
• Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab
• Rose’s Luxury
• Tail Up Goat

Casual Restaurant of the Year

• Baan Siam
• La Famosa
• Makan
• Ruthie’s All Day
• The Roost

Upscale Casual Restaurant of the Year

• Albi
• Anju
• Nama
• Rooster and Owl
• Shilling Canning Company

Pastry Chef of the Year

• Rochelle Cooper, The Duck & The Peach, La Collina, The Wells
• Tammy Saunders, Minibar
• Katherine Thompson, Thompson Italian
• Alicia Wang, No Goodbyes
• Aude Buisine, Un Je Ne Sai Quoi

Formal Fine Dining Restaurant of the Year

• Cranes
• Jônt
• Rasika West End
• 1789 Restaurant
• Xiquet by Danny Lledó

Chef of the Year

• Matt Adler, Caruso’s Grocery
• Cedric Maupillier, Convivial
• Shamim Popal, Lapis
• Michael Rafidi, Albi
• Rob Rubba, Oyster Oyster

*Indicates categories whose winner is chosen by public vote.