The finalists for the 2018 James Beard Foundation awards were announced this morning, and while the long list of Seattle-area semifinalists has been whittled down significantly, four strong contenders remain (five if Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi are considered separately, though technically they’re nominated as a package deal). Here are Seattle’s local nominees, with the winners to be announced May 7 in Chicago.

Best New Restaurant

Junebaby, Seattle

Outstanding Restaurant

Canlis, Seattle

Best Chef: Northwest

Edouardo Jordan of Salare in Seattle

Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi of Joule in Seattle

The list of finalists looks quite similar to last year’s, which also had four locals including Jordan, Yang, and Chirchi in the Best Chef: Northwest category, Canlis chef Brady Williams up for Rising Star Chef of the Year, and Canlis itself nominated for Outstanding Wine Program, an award the venerable restaurant went on to win.

In addition to the restaurant awards, the JBF also honors food media in a variety of ways. This year, Eater’s own Bill Addison is a finalist for the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award for his review of Edouardo Jordan’s Junebaby: “America’s Next Great Southern Restaurant Is in the Pacific Northwest.” In the glowing review, Addison called the restaurant “revolutionary” and praised Jordan for the complexity of food and story he’s telling:

“With JuneBaby, his second restaurant, Jordan distinguishes himself as one of the most accomplished and farseeing chefs cooking Southern food in America. The two dozen dishes on his dinner menu, plus a few gems from the weekend-only lunch service, convey a scholarly breadth of the region’s cuisines. He wields a bull’s-eye aim between tradition and modernity — and between homeyness and professional rigor — infused elegantly with the flavors of his African-American heritage.”

Bellevue-based Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya of Modernist Cuisine scored a nomination for their book Modernist Bread in the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Awards category, with winners announced on April 27.

And in the Broadcast Media Awards category, Seattle-based Andrew Gooi is again nominated for Visual and Technical Excellence for his Food Talkies films, whose subjects include chef Mutsuko Soma (Kamonegi) and Shoichi Sugiyama, who makes mochi the traditional way in the Seattle area. In the podcast category, Seattleite Rachel Belle nabbed a finalist slot for Your Last Meal (with Rachel Belle).

Representing Washington State with a 2018 James Beard America’s Classics Award, announced earlier this year, was Los Hernandez Tamales in Union Gap. The full list of nationwide nominees for the James Beard Awards can be found here.

Update: March 14, 2018, 10:15 a.m.

This article was updated to include finalists Modernist Bread and Andrew Gooi.

Update: March 14, 2018, 10:42 a.m.

This article was updated to include finalist Rachel Belle.