Down-home dining sits at Beard's table

— -- The James Beard Foundation is whetting appetites for its annual culinary awards gala June 8 in New York by announcing in advance the honorees in the America's Classics restaurants category. The five venerable down-home dining places that will receive tributes from gala co-hosts Kim Cattrall and Bobby Flay are:

•Bagaduce Lunch, Brooksville, Maine, a seafood shack overlooking Bagaduce Falls.

•Irma's Restaurant, Houston, a memorabilia-filled, breakfast/lunch eatery featuring Tex-Mex dishes.

•Maneki, Seattle, a century-old Japanese restaurant that's the lone survivor from the city's once-thriving Japantown area.

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•Jumbo's, Miami, a seafood/soul food cafe that was one of the city's first restaurants to integrate, in 1966.

•Tufano's Vernon Park Tap, Chicago, a working-class bar with a kitchen that has been owned by the same family since the 1930s.