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A curated selection of celebrated chefs organized by specialty cuisine. Explore profiles, signature styles, and inspiration tailored to the flavors you love — portrait photos via Wikimedia Commons where applicable.

  • Ayesha Curry

    Ayesha Curry

    Ayesha Disa Curry (née Alexander; March 23, 1989) is a Canadian-American businesswoman, restaurateur, author, actress and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of Sweet July, a lifestyle brand empowering and celebrating women and BIPOC creators. Curry is also the co-founder of Domaine Curry, a premium wine brand aiming to define and lead the wine category for Black and multicultural women. In 2011, she married basketball player Stephen Curry, with whom she has four children.

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  • Bethenny Frankel

    Bethenny Frankel

    Bethenny Frankel, also known as Bethenny Parisella, (born November 4, 1970) is an American entrepreneur, television personality, philanthropist, and author. She was the runner-up on the NBC reality competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005, and increased her profile on the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City (2008–2010, 2015–2019). She propelled her fame from the series and founded Skinnygirl, a lifestyle brand. Frankel's spin-off series Bethenny Ever After aired three seasons from 2010–2012, and Bethenny & Fredrik aired one season in 2018. She also headlined the Fox daytime talk show Bethenny (2013–2014) and the HBO Max reality competition series The Big Shot with Bethenny (2021). She also founded BStrong, a philanthropic organization that has provided disaster relief, and has written four self-help books, hosted two podcasts, and is a YouTuber.

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  • Bobby Flay

    Bobby Flay

    Robert William Flay (born December 10, 1964) is an American celebrity chef, food writer, restaurateur, and television personality. Flay is the owner and executive chef of several restaurants and franchises, including Bobby's Burger Palace, Bobby's Burgers, and Amalfi. He has appeared on Food Network since 1995, which won him four Daytime Emmy Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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  • Chrissy Teigen

    Chrissy Teigen

    Christine Diane Teigen (born November 30, 1985) is an American model, television personality, and author. She made her professional modeling debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, in 2010, and appeared on the 50th-anniversary cover alongside Nina Agdal and Lily Aldridge, in 2014. Teigen formerly appeared as a panelist on the syndicated daytime talk show FABLife (2015–2016). She co-hosted the musical competition show Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019) with LL Cool J and was a judge on the comedy competition show Bring the Funny (2019). She co-hosted the comedic court show Chrissy's Court (2020–2022) with her mother. Teigen has also authored three cookbooks.

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  • Giada De Laurentiis

    Giada De Laurentiis

    Giada Pamela De Laurentiis (born Giada Pamela De Benedetti, August 22, 1970) is an Italian-American chef, entrepreneur, writer, and television personality. She was the host of Food Network's program called Giada at Home. She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC's program entitled Today. De Laurentiis is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods. She is a winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and the Gracie Award for Best Television Host. She was also recognized by the International Hospitality Institute as one of the Global 100 in Hospitality, a list featuring the 100 Most Powerful People in Global Hospitality.

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  • Gordon Ramsay

    Gordon Ramsay

    Gordon James Ramsay ( RAM-zee; born (1966-11-08)8 November 1966) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world. Ramsay's media persona is defined by his fiery temper, aggressive behaviour, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity, while making blunt, critical, and controversial comments, including insults and sardonic wisecracks about contestants and their cooking abilities. He is known for presenting television programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen (2004), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004–2009, 2014), and The F Word (2005–2010), with Kitchen Nightmares winning the 2005 and 2008 British Academy Television Award for Best Feature, and the American versions of Hell's Kitchen (2005–present), Kitchen Nightmares (2007–2025), MasterChef (2010–present), and MasterChef Junior (2013–present), as well as Hotel Hell (2012–2016), Gordon Behind Bars (2012), Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back (2018–2020), and Next Level Chef (2022–present). Ramsay was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry. He was named the top chef in the UK at the 2000…

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  • Guy Fieri

    Guy Fieri

    Guy Ramsay Fieri (US: fee-ED-ee, Italian: [ˈfjɛːri]; né Ferry; born January 22, 1968) is an American restaurateur, author, and television presenter. He co-owned three now-defunct restaurants in California. He licenses his name to restaurants in cities all over the world, and is known for hosting various television series on the Food Network. In 2010, The New York Times reported that Fieri had become the "face of the network", bringing an "element of rowdy, mass-market culture to American food television" and that his "prime-time shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network".

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  • Gwyneth Paltrow

    Gwyneth Paltrow

    Gwyneth Kate Paltrow ( PAL-troh; born September 27, 1972) is an American actress and businesswoman. The daughter of filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, she established herself as a leading lady appearing in primarily mid-budget and period films during the 1990s and early 2000s, before transitioning to blockbusters and franchises. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films including Seven (1995), Emma (1996), Sliding Doors (1998), and A Perfect Murder (1998). She garnered wider acclaim for her role as Viola de Lesseps in the historical romance Shakespeare in Love (1998), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. This was followed by roles in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and Shallow Hal (2001). She made her West End debut in the David Auburn's play Proof (2003), earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination, and reprised the role in the 2005 film of the same name. After becoming a parent in 2004, Paltrow reduced her acting workload by making intermittent appearances in films such as Two Lovers (2008), Country Strong (2010), and Contagion (2011). Paltrow's career revived through her portrayal of Pepper Potts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). On television, she had a recurring guest role as Holly Holliday on the Fox musical television series Glee (2010–2011), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress…

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  • Martha Stewart

    Martha Stewart

    Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra, Polish: [kɔˈstɨra]; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising and e-commerce. She has written numerous bestselling books, was the publisher of Martha Stewart Living magazine and hosted two syndicated television programs: Martha Stewart Living, which ran from 1993 to 2004, and The Martha Stewart Show, which ran from 2005 to 2012. Stewart was convicted of felony charges related to the ImClone stock trading case; she served five months in federal prison for fraud and was released in March 2005. There was speculation that the incident would effectively end her media empire, but in 2005, Stewart began a comeback campaign, and her company returned to profitability in 2006. Stewart rejoined the board of directors of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in 2011 and became chairwoman of her namesake company again in 2012. The company was acquired by Sequential Brands in 2015. Sequential Brands Group agreed in April 2019 to sell Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, including the Emeril brand, to Marquee Brands for $175 million with benchmarked additional payments. In 2023, at the age of 81, Stewart became the oldest woman to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue magazine. In 2024, she was the subject of a Netflix documentary titled Martha directed by R. J. Cutler.

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  • Joël Robuchon

    Joël Robuchon

    Joël Robuchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔɛl ʁɔbyʃɔ̃], 7 April 1945 – 6 August 2018) was a French chef and restaurateur. He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976. He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France. He operated more than a dozen restaurants across Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Madrid, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City. His restaurants have been acclaimed, and he held 31 Michelin Guide stars among them by the time of his death in 2018, the most any restaurateur has ever held. He is considered to be one of the greatest chefs of all time.

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  • Thomas Keller

    Thomas Keller

    Thomas Aloysius Keller (born October 14, 1955) is an American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He and his Napa Valley restaurant, the French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, including Best California Chef in 1996 and Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant was a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World; the voting process has since been changed to disallow previous winners from being considered. In 2005, he was awarded three stars in the inaugural Michelin Guide for New York City for his restaurant Per Se, and in 2006, he was awarded three stars in the inaugural Michelin Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area for the French Laundry. He is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three-star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants. His restaurants hold seven Michelin stars in total: three at Per Se, three at the French Laundry, and one at the Surf Club Restaurant.

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  • Heston Blumenthal

    Heston Blumenthal

    Heston Marc Blumenthal (; born 27 May 1966) is an English celebrity chef, television personality and food writer. His restaurants include the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, a three-Michelin-star restaurant that was named the world's best by the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2005. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing and flavour encapsulation. He came to public attention with unusual recipes such as bacon-and-egg ice cream and snail porridge. His recipes for triple-cooked chips and soft-centred Scotch eggs have been widely imitated. He has advocated a scientific approach to cooking, for which he has been awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Reading, Bristol and London and made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Blumenthal's public profile was boosted by a number of television series, most notably for Channel 4, as well as a product range for the Waitrose supermarket chain introduced in 2010. Blumenthal also owns Dinner, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in London, and a one-Michelin-star pub in Bray, the Hind's Head. Blumenthal has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a condition he believes made him hyper-focused on his work, and bipolar disorder. He is an ambassador for the charity Bipolar UK.

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  • Eric Ripert

    Eric Ripert

    Eric Ripert (French: [ʁipɛʁ]; born 2 March 1965) is a French chef, author, and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and noted for his work with seafood. Ripert's flagship restaurant, Le Bernardin, in Midtown Manhattan, New York has been ranked among the best restaurants in the world by culinary magazines and the most prestigious culinary ranking systems around the globe. From 2022 to the present, Le Bernardin has been ranked No.1 on "La Liste", an annual list. It has held the maximum rating of four stars for over three decades from The New York Times and three stars from the Michelin Guide.

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  • Grant Achatz

    Grant Achatz

    Grant Achatz ( AK-its) (born April 25, 1974) is an American chef and restaurateur often recognized for his contributions to molecular gastronomy or progressive cuisine. Achatz has won numerous awards, including Food and Wine's "best new chefs" award in 1998, "Rising Star Chef of the Year Award" for 1999, "Best Chef in the United States" for 1998, a 2003 "Who's Who Inductee" from the James Beard Foundation, and a Jean Banchet Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026. His Chicago restaurant Alinea has won numerous accolades.

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  • Dominique Crenn

    Dominique Crenn

    Dominique Crenn (French pronunciation: [dɔminik kʁɛn]; born 7 April 1965) is a French chef. As of 2018, she was the only female chef in the United States to attain three Michelin stars, for her restaurant Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. Crenn has been featured in several Food Network and other television shows.

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  • Anne-Sophie Pic

    Anne-Sophie Pic

    Anne-Sophie Pic (French pronunciation: [an sɔfi pik], born 12 July 1969) is a French chef best known for regaining the third Michelin star for her restaurant Maison Pic, in southeast France. She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2011. She currently holds 10 Michelin stars, the most for any female chef.

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  • Pierre Gagnaire

    Pierre Gagnaire

    Pierre Galmier Gagnaire (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɡaɲɛʁ]; born 9 April 1950) is a French chef who is the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 Rue Balzac in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the fusion cuisine movement. Beginning his career in Saint-Étienne where he won three Michelin stars, Gagnaire tore at the conventions of classic French cooking by introducing juxtapositions of flavours, tastes, textures, and ingredients. On his website, he gives his mission statement as the wish to run a restaurant which is 'facing tomorrow but respectful of yesterday' ("tourné vers demain mais soucieux d'hier").

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  • Yannick Alléno

    Yannick Alléno

    Yannick Alléno (born 16 December 1968) is a French chef who operates the restaurants Pavillon Ledoyen and L'Abysse in Paris and Le 1947 in Courchevel. He currently holds sixteen Michelin stars.

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  • Guy Savoy

    Guy Savoy

    Guy Patrice Savoy (French: [ɡi savwa]; born 24 July 1953) is a French chef who is the head chef and owner of the eponymous Restaurant Guy Savoy in Paris, France, and its sister restaurant in Las Vegas, U.S., both of which have earned multiple Michelin stars. He owns three other restaurants in Paris.

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  • Marco Pierre White

    Marco Pierre White

    Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995, White became the first British chef and, at age 33, the youngest chef, to earn three Michelin stars. He has trained chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the enfant terrible of the British restaurant scene.

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  • Paul Bocuse

    Paul Bocuse

    Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul (Mister Paul). The Bocuse d'Or, a biennial world chef championship, bears his name. After completing his formal education and fighting to liberate France, Bocuse enrolled in a culinary apprenticeship in Pollionnay with chef Eugénie Brazier. Under the guidance of some of the most skilled and experienced Mères from the Lyon area, he honed his skills in French cuisine. He then took over the family restaurant, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, to turn it into one of the most renowned restaurants in the world; from 1965, it held its 3-star rating in the Michelin Guide for a record 55 years. Bocuse was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the then-emerging nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. However, Bocuse also criticised some nouvelle cuisine tendencies, stating "nouvelle cuisine was nothing on the plate, everything on the bill". Bocuse claimed that Henri Gault first used the term to describe food prepared by Bocuse and other top chefs for the maiden flight of the Concorde airliner in 1969. Bocuse inspired the character of chef Auguste Gusteau in the 2007 animated film Ratatouille, directed by Brad Bird, the plot…

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  • Michel Bras

    Michel Bras

    Michel Bras (born 4 November 1946) is a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999. It is also classed in the "Relais & Châteaux" since 1992. He was classed several times among the 10 best restaurants in the world.

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  • Alex Atala

    Alex Atala

    Milad Alexandre Mack Atala (born June 3, 1968) is a Brazilian chef of Palestinian and Irish ancestry, who runs the restaurant D.O.M. (Latin abbreviation of Deo optimo maximo) in São Paulo. In May 2012, D.O.M. was rated the 4th best restaurant in the world by the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants, published by Restaurant magazine. His establishment also holds the title of "Acqua Panna Best Restaurant In South America." He's known for transforming traditional Brazilian dishes, adapting French and Italian culinary techniques to native Brazilian ingredients. Atala also hosted a television show on Brazilian TV channel GNT. In 2013, he founded Atá, an institute about relation with food, with Roberto Smeraldi and Carlos Alberto Ricardo, among others. In 2019, Atala and his institute were accused of misappropriating the name "Cerrado vanilla" by registering it as a commercial name at the Brazilian Institute for Industrial Property (INPI), without prior consultation to rural communities who traditionally use the ingredient in their food cultures.

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  • Virgilio Martínez

    Virgilio Martínez

    Virgilio Martínez Véliz (born August 31, 1977) is a Peruvian chef and restaurateur. He is considered one of the new generation of Peruvian chefs promoting the spread of Peruvian cuisine. He is known for his use of applying modern cooking techniques to indigenous Peruvian ingredients. Marie Claire magazine has called him "the new star of Lima's gastro sky." On April 29, 2013, his flagship restaurant, Central, entered as number 50 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants as awarded by the British magazine Restaurant. In 2014, Central jumped 35 places to number 15, winning the "Highest Climber" award, and later that year was named Best Restaurant in Latin America. In 2023, Central earned the No. 1 spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking. According to a study on innovation in Peruvian gastronomy by the Inter-American Development Bank (2022), Virgilio Martínez had the conceptual idea of combining ingredients in the same dish in the same way that they are found together in the ecosystem.

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  • Mauro Colagreco

    Mauro Colagreco

    Mauro Colagreco (born 5 October 1976 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine chef at the three-Michelin stars restaurant Mirazur in Menton, France.

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  • Andoni Luis Aduriz

    Andoni Luis Aduriz

    Mugaritz is a restaurant in Rentería, Gipuzkoa, Spain. It was opened in March 1998 under the management of Chef Andoni Aduriz. It is considered one of the world's best restaurants since 2006 according to Restaurant Magazine and has been recently been ranked fourth in their list.

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  • Joan Roca

    Joan Roca

    Joan Roca may refer to: Joan Roca i Caball (1898-1976), Catalan politician Joan Roca i Fontané (born 1964), Catalan gourmet chef

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  • Jordi Roca

    Jordi Roca

    Jordi Roca i Fontané (born 2 May 1978) is a Spanish chef, pastry chef of the restaurant El Celler de Can Roca. In 2014, he won the inaugural "World's Best Pastry Chef" award from Restaurant magazine. In April 2018, an episode of Chef's Table: Pastry featuring Roca debuted on Netflix. He has dysphonia, a neurological disease that has left him permanently hoarse.

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  • Carme Ruscalleda

    Carme Ruscalleda

    Carme Ruscalleda i Serra (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkaɾmə ruskəˈʎɛðə], born in 1952) is the renowned Spanish chef of the restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She also owns and manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan. Ruscalleda was raised in a family of farmers and began cooking as a girl. She studied Charcuterie techniques, as well as Commerce, and after marrying a grocery owner, Toni Balam in 1975, the couple opened restaurant Sant Pau in 1988. In 1991 it obtained its first Michelin Guide star and in 2006 obtained its third Michelin star. Today her restaurants have seven Michelin stars in total: three in her restaurant in Catalonia and two for the Sant Pau in Tokyo, and two for Moments Restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Barcelona (opened 2016), making her the world's only seven-Michelin-starred female chef. The restaurant in Sant Pol de Mar also obtained the maximum three suns of the Campsa Guide in 1999. Her cuisine is based on Catalan tradition though open to world influences, and focuses on quality and seasonal products. She often relates the dishes served to a leitmotif explained in the menu, creating a sort of literary concept. Since 2000, she has published numerous books on Mediterranean cuisine, including recipes adapted to non-professional kitchens. The most celebrated is Cuinar per ser feliç (2001), Cooking to be happy. In English she has published Carme Ruscalleda's Mediterranean cuisine (2007), Salsa Books Editions. Since 2009, Ruscalleda has overseen the two Michelin-starred…

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  • Martin Berasategui

    Martin Berasategui

    Martín Berasategui Olazábal is a Spanish chef expert in Basque cuisine and owner of an eponymous restaurant in Lasarte-Oria (Gipuzkoa), Spain. Since 2001 it has been awarded three Michelin stars. He holds twelve stars in total, more than any other Spanish chef.

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  • Quique Dacosta

    Quique Dacosta

    Quique Dacosta is a Spanish chef. He began his professional career as a chef in 1986. In 1988, he joined the team at the restaurant that would later become Quique Dacosta Restaurante.

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  • Santiago Lastra

    Santiago Lastra

    Santiago Lastra (born 4 April 1990) is a Mexican chef and co-owner of KOL Restaurant in Marylebone, London.

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  • Clare Smyth

    Clare Smyth

    Clare Smyth (born 6 September 1978) is a Northern Irish chef. She is the Chef Patron of three Michelin starred Core by Clare Smyth which opened in 2017. Previously she was Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay from 2012 to 2016, won the Chef of the Year award in 2013, and achieved a perfect score in the 2015 edition of the Good Food Guide. Smyth has also appeared on television shows such as Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen. In 2017, Smyth opened her first restaurant, Core, in London. It was awarded three Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide, which made her the first Northern Irish woman to have a restaurant awarded three Michelin stars. Her second restaurant, Oncore, opened in Sydney in 2021. With Oncore gaining Three Hats honour in 2022, Smyth became the first ever female chef and second overall to gain three Michelin Stars and become a Three-Hatted Chef.

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  • Angela Hartnett

    Angela Hartnett

    Angela Maria Hartnett (born September 1968) is an English chef. A protégée of Gordon Ramsay, she was Chef-Patron at Angela Hartnett at the Connaught in London. Currently, she is Chef-Patron for Murano in Mayfair; Café Murano in Bermondsey, Covent Garden, Marylebone and St James's; and Cucina Angelina in Courchevel (France). In 2004, she gained her first Michelin star.

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  • Marcus Wareing

    Marcus Wareing

    Marcus Wareing (born 29 June 1970) is an English celebrity chef who was chef-owner of the one-Michelin-starred restaurant Marcus until its permanent closure in December 2023. Since 2014, Wareing has been a judge on MasterChef: The Professionals.

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  • Tom Kerridge

    Tom Kerridge

    Thomas Kerridge (born 27 July 1973) is an English chef. After initially appearing in several small television parts as a child actor, he decided to attend culinary school at the age of 18. He has since worked at a variety of British restaurants, including the Rhodes in the Square and Adlards. With his wife, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Kerridge opened a pub, The Hand & Flowers, in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in 2005. Within a year, he gained his first Michelin star. In 2012, Hand & Flowers became the first pub to win a second Michelin star. Kerridge opened a second pub, The Coach, also in Marlow, which has also won a Michelin star. He opened a pub and butcher, The Butcher's Tap, and opened his first London restaurant in 2018 at Corinthia Hotel London. Kerridge has appeared on the Great British Menu, MasterChef, and Saturday Kitchen and presented How to Lose Weight For Good and Top of the Shop, both for the BBC. Kerridge presented Bake Off: Crème de la Crème (2016) and presents Food and Drink (2015–present), both for BBC Two.

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  • Michel Roux Jr.

    Michel Roux Jr.

    Michel Albert Roux (born 23 May 1960) also known as Michel Roux Jr., is an English-French chef. He owned the 2 Michelin-starred restaurant Le Gavroche in London, which was opened by his father Albert Roux and uncle Michel Roux, until it closed on 13 January 2024.

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  • Albert Adrià

    Albert Adrià

    Albert Adrià Acosta (Catalan pronunciation: [əlˈβɛɾt əðɾiˈaj əˈkɔstə]; born 20 October 1969) is a Spanish chef. He is currently head chef of Enigma, a Michelin one-star restaurant in Barcelona and was formerly the head pastry chef of El Bulli, in Roses on the Costa Brava. He has often collaborated with his brother, renowned chef Ferran Adrià.

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  • Gaggan Anand

    Gaggan Anand

    Gaggan Anand (born in Kolkata, India) is an Indian chef and the owner and executive chef of the progressive Indian restaurant Gaggan in Bangkok, Thailand.

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  • Vikas Khanna

    Vikas Khanna

    Vikas Khanna is an Indian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, and filmmaker. He has been one of the judges on MasterChef India since the show began.

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  • Sanjeev Kapoor

    Sanjeev Kapoor

    Sanjeev Kapoor (born 10 April 1964) is an Indian celebrity chef, television presenter, cookbook author and entrepreneur. He began his career in the hospitality industry in 1984 after completing the Diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering & Nutrition, Pusa, New Delhi.

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  • Madhur Jaffrey

    Madhur Jaffrey

    Madhur Jaffrey CBE (née Bahadur; born 13 August 1933) is an actress, cookbook and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006. She has written over a dozen cookbooks and appeared on several related television programmes, the most notable of which was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, which premiered in the UK in 1982. She was the food consultant at the now-closed Dawat, which was considered by many food critics to be among the best Indian restaurants in New York City. Jaffrey was instrumental in bringing together filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, and acted in several of their films, such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965), for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival. She has appeared in dramas on radio, stage and television. In 2004, she was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of her services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom, India and the United States, through her achievements in film, television and cookery. In 2022, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India, which is the third highest civilian award. Her childhood memoir of India during the final years of the British Raj, Climbing the Mango Trees, was published in 2006.

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  • Atul Kochhar

    Atul Kochhar

    Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born, British-based celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer. Kochhar is widely regarded as one of the most influential Indian chefs of all time and has been credited with changing the way Indian cuisine is perceived by the world. He was the first ever Indian chef to receive a Michelin star, awarded in London in 2001 whilst at Tamarind. He later opened his own restaurant called Benares, which won him a second Michelin star in 2007. Since then he has opened several other restaurants, both in the United Kingdom and internationally including Kanishka in Mayfair, London. Kochhar makes regular appearances on television shows, and has written a number of cookbooks: Curry Everyday, Simple Indian, Fish, Indian Style, Curries of the World, and 30 Minute Curries.

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  • Hemant Oberoi

    Hemant Oberoi

    Nilesh Limaye (Marathi: नीलेश लिमये, romanized: Nilesh Limye) is an Indian celebrity chef. He has successfully worked as a tv host, author and contributor to various magazines and a restaurant consultant. He is nicknamed "Sindbad the Chef" owing to his frequent travels. He manages his own entrepreneurial venture "All 'Bout Cooking" providing food and everage solutions to new entrants, entrepreneurs or existing restaurateurs. Zikomo (Pune), Trikaya (Pune), Gypsy Chinese (Dubai) and Tenzo Temple (Thane) are among the restaurant brands that he works with.

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  • Vineet Bhatia

    Vineet Bhatia

    Vineet Bhatia (born 9 December 1967) is a British chef, restaurateur, author, and media personality. He was the first ever chef of Indian origin to receive a Michelin star. He opened two Rasoi restaurants, the first in Chelsea, London in 2004, and the second in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2008. Both restaurants received Michelin stars, in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Currently, he has eleven restaurants, including his signature restaurant "KAMA by Vineet" in the dining hall in Harrods in London, and appears as a judge on Netflix show The Final Table and judge-host on MasterChef India. He has written two cookbooks, Rasoi: New Indian Kitchen and My Sweet Kitchen. In 2021, Vineet was appointed as culinary Ambassador for United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland campaign and at the start of 2023 was awarded an MBE.

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  • Garima Arora

    Garima Arora

    Garima Arora is an Indian master chef, judge hotelier, restaurateur and business woman. She earned her first Michelin star in 2018 for her restaurant Gaa, in Bangkok, becoming the first Indian woman to do so. In 2023, Gaa received its second Michelin star, making it only the second Indian restaurant globally to hold two-Michelin stars and Arora the first female Indian chef to run a two-Michelin star restaurant.

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  • Manu Chandra

    Manu Chandra

    Peter Daryl Evans (born 29 August 1973) is an Australian chef, and former television presenter, who was a judge of the competitive cooking show My Kitchen Rules. Evans has been heavily criticised for spreading misinformation about vaccinations, and pseudoscientific dieting ideas such as the Paleolithic diet. He lives in Round Mountain, New South Wales.

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  • Ritu Dalmia

    Ritu Dalmia

    Ritu Dalmia (born 1972) is an Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is the chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi, which she established in 2000, with co-founder Gita Bhalla under partnership firm "Riga Food". Other restaurants of company include 'Latitude 28' and 'Cafe Diva'. She hosted a TV cookery show, 'Italian Khana', for NDTV Good Times for three seasons, and published her first cookbook by the same name in 2009. She has been hosting Travelling Diva on NDTV Good Times since 2 February 2012. Dalmia is a lesbian and a prominent LGBT rights activist. In June 2016, Dalmia and five others, all members of the LGBT community themselves, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. This resulted in the 2018 landmark judgment in Navtej Singh Johar and others v. Union of India in which the Supreme Court unanimously declared the law unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalises consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex".

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  • Dominique Ansel

    Dominique Ansel

    Dominique Ansel (born 1978) is a French pastry chef and owner of Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City. He is best known for his invention of the Cronut, a croissant-donut hybrid.

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  • Christina Tosi

    Christina Tosi

    Christina Tosi (born 1981) is an American chef and cookbook author. She is founder and co-owner with Momofuku of Milk Bar and serves as its chef and chief executive officer. She also created Milk Bar Pie and Cereal Milk. Food & Wine magazine included her in their 2014 list of "Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink". She is the author of several cookbooks. She has served as a judge on the reality competition MasterChef and presented for the Netflix series Bake Squad. She has won two James Beard Foundation Awards.

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  • Cedric Grolet

    Cedric Grolet

    Cédric Grolet (born 28 August 1985, Firminy, France) is a French pastry chef. He is the executive pastry chef at Le Meurice, in Paris, part of the Dorchester Collection. Grolet's pastries focus on fruits and the reinterpretation of traditional French desserts. He is known for creating desserts that have a likeness to the fruits from which they're made. In order to achieve this effect, Grolet molds a thin shell of white chocolate and airbrushes it to replicate the appearance and texture of fruits such as lemons, apples, and figs. Grolet is also the author of Fruits, a cookbook that explores his fruit-based desserts. In March 2018, he opened his first pastry shop within Le Meurice in Paris. Grolet opened a second shop in Paris, Cedric Grolet Opéra, a third shop in London, Cedric Grolet at the Berkeley, (2022) and a fourth shop in Singapore (2023). In 2022, Cédric appeared on PastryClass with his first-ever online class.

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  • Duff Goldman

    Duff Goldman

    Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman (born December 17, 1974) is an American businessman, pastry chef, television personality, and writer. He is the executive chef of Baltimore’s Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes, and Los Angeles’s Charm City Cakes West, which was featured in Food Network's Duff Till Dawn and "Cake Masters" series. His work has also been featured on the Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Man v. Food, Buddy vs. Duff, Duff Takes the Cake, and Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time.

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  • Buddy Valastro

    Buddy Valastro

    Bartolo "Buddy" Valastro Jr. (born March 3, 1977) is an American baker, reality television personality, and businessman. He has taken his small, family-owned bake shop, Carlo's Bakery, and turned it into a baking and restaurant empire. Valastro is best known as the star of the reality television series Cake Boss, which ran on the TLC cable channel from April 2009 until April 2020. He has also starred in Next Great Baker (2010), Kitchen Boss (2011), Buddy's Bakery Rescue (2013), Bake You Rich (2013), Bakery Boss (2013), Buddy vs. Duff (2019), Buddy vs. Christmas (2020) Buddy Valastro's Cake Dynasty (2023–present) and Legends of the Fork (2023–present) Valastro was born in Hoboken. He grew up there and in Little Ferry, New Jersey. His mother, Mary Tubito (1948–2017), was born in Altamura, Italy. She is the daughter of Italian immigrants Nicola and Maddalena Tubito. They moved to New Jersey when she was six years old. His father, Buddy Sr., was born in Lipari, Italy. Valastro grew up with four older sisters: Grace, Mary, Maddalena and Lisa. He attended Ridgefield Park High School and took baking courses at the Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus. Valastro began working at his family's business, Carlo's Bakery at age 11, alongside his father. When his father died in 1994, Valastro was 17 and began to take over the family business. In the fifth episode of the first season of Cake Dynasty, he explains that his oldest son, known as Junior, is the first "Buddy Valastro" to…

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  • Pierre Hermé

    Pierre Hermé

    Pierre Hermé (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɛʁme]; born 20 November 1961) is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Called "the Picasso of Pastry" by Vogue, Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. He was also ranked the fourth most influential French person in the world by Vanity Fair. In 1998, Hermé created his own brand with Charles Znaty. He has written or co-written over 40 books.

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  • Amaury Guichon

    Amaury Guichon

    Amaury Guichon (born 15 March 1991) is a French-Swiss pastry chef and chocolatier. He is known for his pastry designs and chocolate sculptures.

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  • Jordi Cruz

    Jordi Cruz

    Jordi Cruz Mas (born June 29, 1978 in Manresa, Barcelona) is a Spanish chef. He is considered one of the best chefs in Spain and directs ABaC kitchen in Barcelona.

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  • Dabiz Muñoz

    Dabiz Muñoz

    David Muñoz Rosillo (born 15 January 1980), also known as Dabiz Muñoz, is a Spanish chef specializing in avant-garde cuisine. He is the owner and head chef of DiverXO, which is the only restaurant in Madrid with three Michelin stars as of 2025. He was named the "Best Chef in the World" by The Best Chef Awards for three consecutive years (2021, 2022, and 2023).

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  • Enrique Olvera

    Enrique Olvera

    Enrique Olvera (born 1976) is a Mexican chef. He is the owner and head chef of the two-Michelin starred restaurant Pujol, a Mexican haute cuisine eatery in Mexico City, which was ranked 9th in the world according to the 2021 annual The World's 50 Best Restaurants listing. He also created the onboard menu in the business class of airline Aeroméxico.

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  • Pía León

    Pía León

    Central is a restaurant located in the Barranco District, Lima, Peru. Central is the flagship restaurant of Peruvian chef, Virgilio Martínez Véliz, and serves as his workshop in the investigation and integration of indigenous Peruvian ingredients into the restaurant's menu. The restaurant is known for its contemporary interpretation and presentation of Peruvian cuisine. GQ Latinoamérica calls Central "the heart of his Virgilio Martínez Véliz gastronomic philosophy." In 2012, Central was named Best Restaurant of Peru by the Peruvian dining guide, SUMMUM. In 2013, Central entered as number 50 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants as awarded by the British magazine Restaurant., and in 2014 jumped 35 places receiving "Highest Climber" recognition and ranking as number 15 in the world. On August 21, 2014, Central for the third consecutive year was awarded Best Restaurant of Peru by the Peruvian Dining Guide, SUMMUM, and additionally received awards for Best Contemporary Peruvian cuisine and Best Sommelier. Central has been named the best restaurant in Latin America for 3 consecutive years (2014, 2015, and 2016) and ranked 2nd in 2017, and again at number 1 in 2022. It is also ranked among the World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking 4th in the world in 2015 and 2016, 5th in 2017, 6th in 2018, and 2nd in 2022. In 2023, it earned the No. 1 spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants ranking.

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  • Elena Reygadas

    Elena Reygadas

    Elena Reygadas Castillo (born 27 August 1976) is a Mexican chef. She is the owner of the eateries Rosetta, Panadería Rosetta, Salón Rosetta, Bella Aurora and Lardo, all found in Mexico City. In 2023, she was named The World's Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Rosetta has been awarded one Michelin star and has been listed within The World's 50 Best Restaurants list.

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  • Niki Nakayama

    Niki Nakayama

    Niki Nakayama (born 1975) is an American chef and the owner of Michelin-starred n/naka restaurant in Los Angeles, specializing in modern Japanese kaiseki cuisine.

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  • Nancy Silverton

    Nancy Silverton

    Nancy Silverton (born June 20, 1954) is an American chef, baker, restaurateur, and author. The winner of the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award in 2014, she is recognized for her role in popularizing sourdough and artisan breads in the United States.

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  • Jonathan Waxman

    Jonathan Waxman

    Jonathan Waxman (born 1950) is an American chef. He is credited with being the one of the first to bring the California cuisine movement to New York, fusing techniques from French cuisine with local ingredients.

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  • Lidia Bastianich

    Lidia Bastianich

    Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich (Italian: [ˈliːdja dʒuˈljaːna matˈtikkjo baˈstjaːnitʃ]; née Matticchio; born February 21, 1947) is an Italian-American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to public television cooking shows since 1998. Born in the allied-occupied Pula, Matticchio Bastianich's family emigrated to the United States when she was nine years old during the Istrian–Dalmatian exodus. In 2014, she launched her fifth television series, Lidia's Kitchen. She owns or has owned several Italian restaurants in the U.S. in partnership with her daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali and her son Joe Bastianich, including Felidia (founded with her ex-husband, Felice), Del Posto (closed and sold in 2021), and Becco in Manhattan; Lidia's Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh (closed in 2019); and Lidia's Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. She also is a partner in Eataly locations in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Silicon Valley, Dallas, and São Paulo, Brazil.

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  • Mario Batali

    Mario Batali

    Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, and former restaurateur. Batali co-owned restaurants mainly in New York City along with Las Vegas; and Los Angeles including his flagship restaurant Babbo in New York City, which received a Michelin star for several years. Other notable Batali restaurants were Del Posto, Lupa, and The Spotted Pig where Batali was an investor. Batali has appeared on the Food Network, on shows such as Molto Mario and Iron Chef America, on which he was one of the featured "Iron Chefs". From 2011 to 2017, he was a host on ABC's The Chew. In 2017, the restaurant review site Eater revealed multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against Batali and, in March 2019, he sold all his restaurant holdings.

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  • Emeril Lagasse

    Emeril Lagasse

    Emeril John Lagasse III ( EM-ə-rəl lə-GAH-see; born October 15, 1959) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother's side while being of French heritage through his father. He has appeared on a wide variety of cooking television shows, including the long running Food Network shows Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril, and is associated with several catchphrases, including "Kick it up a notch!" and "Bam!" In 2005, Lagasse's portfolio of media, products, and restaurants was estimated to generate US$150 million annually in revenue.

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  • Cat Cora

    Cat Cora

    Catherine Ann Cora (born April 3, 1967) is an American professional chef, television personality, business person, and cookbook author. She is best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on Iron Chef America and as co-host of Around the World in 80 Plates.

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  • Rachael Ray

    Rachael Ray

    Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968) is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosted the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray. Other programs to her credit include 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, $40 a Day, Rachael Ray's Week in a Day, and the reality format shows Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and Rachael Ray's Kids Cook-Off. Ray has written several cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2006. Ray's television shows have won three Daytime Emmy Awards.

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  • Tyler Florence

    Tyler Florence

    Tyler Florence (born March 3, 1971) is an American chef and television host of several Food Network shows. He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991. He was later given an honorary doctorate from the university for his culinary success. He is the owner and executive chef of Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco.

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  • Michael Symon

    Michael Symon

    Michael D. Symon (born September 19, 1969) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is seen regularly on Food Network on shows such as Iron Chef America, Burgers, Brew and 'Que, Food Feuds, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate, as well as Cook Like an Iron Chef on the Cooking Channel and The Chew on ABC. He has also made numerous contributions to periodicals such as Bon Appétit, Esquire, Food Arts, Gourmet, Saveur and O, The Oprah Magazine. He is of Greek, Sicilian, and Eastern European (Slovak) descent. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Symon is the chef and owner of a number of restaurants in the Greater Cleveland area, including his flagship Lola, Mabel's BBQ and burger franchise BSpot. He is credited with helping to "save" the restaurant scene in Downtown Cleveland. He also owns Michael Symon's Roast (also known as Roast) in Detroit, Michigan. On May 6, 2017, he opened Angeline (named after his mother Angel) at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Symon describes his cooking as "meat-centric."

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  • Rick Bayless

    Rick Bayless

    Rick Bayless (born November 23, 1953) is an American chef and restaurateur who specializes in traditional Mexican cuisine with modern interpretations. He is widely known for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. Among his various accolades are a Michelin star, the title of Top Chef Masters, and seven James Beard Awards.

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  • Charlie Trotter

    Charlie Trotter

    Charlie Trotter (September 8, 1959 – November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur. His best-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter's, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012.

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  • Hubert Keller

    Hubert Keller

    Hubert Keller (born 1954) is a noted French chef, who is known for his signature restaurants, Fleur de Lys in San Francisco and Las Vegas.

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  • Jean-Georges Vongerichten

    Jean-Georges Vongerichten

    Jean-Georges Vongerichten (German: [ʒãːˈʒɔrʒ fɔnɡəˈrɪçtn̩]; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒɔʁʒ vɔŋɡəʁiʃtɛn]; born March 16, 1957) is a French-American chef. Vongerichten owns restaurants in Miami Beach, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Shanghai, Philadelphia, and Tokyo, as well as New York's Jean-Georges restaurant and Tangará Jean Georges in São Paulo's Palácio Tangará, by Oetker Collection. He is head chef of Eden Rock, St Barths. Vongerichten is the author of five cookbooks, two with Mark Bittman.

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  • Geoffrey Zakarian

    Geoffrey Zakarian

    Geoffrey Zakarian (born July 25, 1959) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City, and Miami. He is featured on several television shows on the Food Network, including Chopped and The Next Iron Chef. In 2011, on The Next Iron Chef he won an opportunity to join Iron Chef America.

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  • Masaharu Morimoto

    Masaharu Morimoto

    Masaharu Morimoto (森本 正治, Morimoto Masaharu; born May 26, 1955) is a Japanese chef, best known as an Iron Chef on the Japanese TV cooking show Iron Chef and its spinoff Iron Chef America. He is also known for his unique style of presenting food.

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  • Jiro Ono

    Jiro Ono

    Jiro Ono (小野 二郎, Ono Jirō; born 27 October 1925) is a Japanese sushi chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a sushi restaurant in Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. Ono is regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest living sushi craftsmen and is credited with innovating methods used in modern sushi preparation.

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  • Yoshihiro Murata

    Yoshihiro Murata

    Muni (Korean: 무니; Japanese: 無二, lit. 'no two alike') is a fine dining restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. It specializes in Japanese cuisine, specifically kaiseki (multi-course meals). It first opened in 2018. It received one Michelin Star from 2021 through 2024. Its head chef is Kim Dong-wook. Kim fell in love with Japanese cuisine in high school, after reading the Japanese manga Shōta no Sushi. He graduated from the Hattori Nutrition College. He began working in the kaiseki restaurant Kikunoi, under owner-chef Yoshihiro Murata. He also studied to become a sake sommelier: a kikizakeshi. According to a 2021 article, the restaurant reportedly attempts to emphasize seasonality of ingredients. The menu reportedly changes every month, and there is no fixed signature dish. The restaurant serves an array of dishes from Japanese cuisine.

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  • Seiji Yamamoto

    Seiji Yamamoto

    Seiji Yamamoto (山本征治, Yamamoto Seiji; born 1970) is a Japanese chef, who holds five Michelin stars at his restaurants, including Nihonryori RyuGin. His restaurant has been named in The World's 50 Best Restaurants, while he has placed fifth in Le Chef's list of the best chefs in the world.

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  • Tetsuya Wakuda

    Tetsuya Wakuda

    Tetsuya Wakuda (和久田 哲也, Wakuda Tetsuya) (born 18 June 1959) is a Japanese-born Australian chef based in Sydney. He was the leading judge in the final episode of the second season of Junior MasterChef Australia.

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  • David Kinch

    David Kinch

    David Kinch (born April 4, 1961) is an American chef and restaurateur. He owned and operated Manresa, a restaurant in Los Gatos, California, which was awarded three Michelin stars in 2016. Kinch's California cuisine has strong French, Catalan and Japanese influences. Kinch opened a second restaurant in Los Gatos, called The Bywater, on January 12, 2016. Manresa has been named one of the World's 50 Best Restaurants by Restaurant Magazine, was in America's Top 50 Restaurants by Gourmet, and has received four stars from the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also dean at the International Culinary Center, founded as the French Culinary Institute in 1984. Kinch is a winner of the Best Chef in America award for the Pacific region from the James Beard Foundation as well as GQ's Chef of the Year for 2011.

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  • Corey Lee

    Corey Lee

    Corey Lee, Cory Lee, or Korey Lee may refer to: Cory Lee, Canadian singer and actress Corey Lee (baseball) (born 1974), American baseball pitcher Corey Lee (chef) (born 1977), Korean–American chef Corey Lee Wrenn (born 1983), American sociologist Korey Lee (born 1998), American baseball catcher

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  • Thomas Bühner

    Thomas Bühner

    Kenneth Allen Phelps (born August 6, 1954) is an American former professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman. He played for six different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams from 1980 to 1990, primarily with the Seattle Mariners. Baseball statistician Bill James cited Phelps as an example of a player who was unfairly denied a chance to play in the majors, despite compiling strong minor league statistics.

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  • Christian Bau

    Christian Bau

    Axel Michaels (born 26 May 1949) is a Professor of Classical Indology and Religious Studies at Heidelberg University, former Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (2014-2019) and since 2014 the Director of the research project Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal. He also was the Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” from 2002 until 2013.

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  • Andreas Caminada

    Andreas Caminada

    Zineb Hattab, also known as Zizi Hattab, (born July 23, 1989) is a Moroccan-Spanish chef and the owner of plant-based restaurant KLE in Zurich, Switzerland. Hattab was selected “discovery of the year” by Gault Millau on her restaurant's opening year in 2020 and was the first vegan chef in Switzerland to be awarded with a green and a red Michelin star. Hattab's cooking is noted for its intense flavors and complex balanced dishes in a casual setup.

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  • Björn Frantzén

    Björn Frantzén

    Björn Frantzén (born 26 January 1977) is Swedish chef, restaurateur and business man. As of 2025 Björn Frantzén is the only chef in the world in charge of three separate restaurants with three Michelin stars each.

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  • Esben Holmboe Bang

    Esben Holmboe Bang

    Esben Holmboe Bang (born 19 July 1982) is a Danish chef and restaurateur. He is co-owner and head chef at the three Michelin star restaurant Maaemo in Oslo, Norway.

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  • Magnus Nilsson

    Magnus Nilsson

    Magnus Nilsson may refer to: Magnus the Strong (Magnus Nilsson; 1106–1134), Scandinavian ruler Magnus Nilsson (ice hockey) (born 1978), Swedish ice hockey player Magnus Nilsson (chef) (born 1983), Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson (actor) (born 1947), winner of the 1992 Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay Magnus Nilsson (athlete) (1888–1958), Swedish pole vaulter; see Sweden at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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  • Jan Hartwig

    Jan Hartwig

    Julia Komp (born 7 April 1989) is a German chef. She is the youngest German female chef to be awarded a Michelin star. She is chief chef at Schloss Loersfeld in Kerpen.

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  • Heinz Beck

    Heinz Beck

    Heinz Beck may refer to: Heinz Beck (footballer) (1928–2006), German footballer Heinz Beck (chef) (born 1963), German chef

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  • Niko Romito

    Niko Romito

    Gigi Padovani (born 1953) is an Italian journalist. He has worked as a reporter for La Stampa for many years, writing articles on domestic politics and society as well as collaborating with other newspapers and magazines. An essayist and food writer, he has published about twenty books, some of which have been translated into other languages. His publications include: Nutella: Un mito italiano (2004), Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living (2006), and Street food all'italiana with his wife Clara Vada Padovani (2013).

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  • Carlo Cracco

    Carlo Cracco

    Carlo Cracco (born 8 October 1965) is an Italian chef and television personality. Cracco in Galleria, his restaurant located in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, has three "forks" from Gambero Rosso, one star in the Michelin Guide, and is in the World's 50 Best Restaurants.

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  • Massimiliano Alajmo

    Massimiliano Alajmo

    Massimiliano Alajmo (born 6 May 1974) is an Italian chef. In 2002, at the age of 28, he became the youngest chef in history to be awarded three stars by the Michelin Guide.

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  • Davide Oldani

    Davide Oldani

    Adriano Celentano (Italian: [adriˈaːno tʃelenˈtaːno]; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed Il Molleggiato ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. With around 150 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling Italian musical artists. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies.

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  • Antonino Cannavacciuolo

    Antonino Cannavacciuolo

    Antonino Cannavacciuolo (Italian pronunciation: [antoˈniːno kannavatˈtʃwɔːlo]; born 16 April 1975) is an Italian chef, restaurateur and television personality. He has collected 9 Michelin stars.

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  • Paco Pérez

    Paco Pérez

    Paco Pérez is the name of: Paco Pérez (footballer), Spanish footballer Paco Pérez (musician), Guatemalan musician

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  • Ángel León

    Ángel León

    Ángel León may refer to: Ángel León (chef), Spanish chef Ángel León Gozalo, Spanish sport shooter

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  • Eneko Atxa

    Eneko Atxa

    Eneko Atxa Azurmendi (born September 14, 1977) is a Spanish Basque cuisine chef, known for his sustainability practices.

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  • Oriol Castro

    Oriol Castro

    Albert Adrià Acosta (Catalan pronunciation: [əlˈβɛɾt əðɾiˈaj əˈkɔstə]; born 20 October 1969) is a Spanish chef. He is currently head chef of Enigma, a Michelin one-star restaurant in Barcelona and was formerly the head pastry chef of El Bulli, in Roses on the Costa Brava. He has often collaborated with his brother, renowned chef Ferran Adrià.

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  • Mateu Casañas

    Mateu Casañas

    El Bulli (Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈβuʎi]) was a restaurant near the town of Roses, Spain, run by chef Ferran Adrià, later joined by Albert Adrià, and renowned for its modernist cuisine. Established in 1964, the restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay on the Costa Brava of Catalonia. El Bulli held three Michelin stars and was described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet" in 2006. The restaurant closed 30 July 2011 and relaunched as El Bulli Foundation, a center for culinary creativity.

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  • Eduard Xatruch

    Eduard Xatruch

    El Bulli (Catalan pronunciation: [əl ˈβuʎi]) was a restaurant near the town of Roses, Spain, run by chef Ferran Adrià, later joined by Albert Adrià, and renowned for its modernist cuisine. Established in 1964, the restaurant overlooked Cala Montjoi, a bay on the Costa Brava of Catalonia. El Bulli held three Michelin stars and was described as "the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet" in 2006. The restaurant closed 30 July 2011 and relaunched as El Bulli Foundation, a center for culinary creativity.

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  • Richard Corrigan

    Richard Corrigan

    Richard Corrigan (born 10 February 1964) is an Irish chef. He serves as the chef/patron of Corrigan's Bar & Restaurant Mayfair, Bentley's Oyster Bar and Grill, Daffodil Mulligan Restaurant & Gibney's Bar in London, Virginia Park Lodge and adjoining pub the Deerpark Inn in Virginia, County Cavan, and most recently The Portrait Restaurant, located on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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  • Sat Bains

    Sat Bains

    Satwant Singh "Sat" Bains (born 28 February 1971) is an English chef best known for being chef proprietor of the two-Michelin star Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms in Nottingham, England. He won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, and worked in France, before returning to the UK and opening his own restaurant. Bains was also one of the winners on the BBC show Great British Menu in 2007.

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  • Jason Atherton

    Jason Atherton

    Jason Atherton (born 6 September 1971) is an English chef and restaurateur. His flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social gained a Michelin Star in 2011, its opening year, and retained it until its closure in 2024. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred Maze in London until 30 April 2010. In 2014 he co-hosted the Sky Living TV series My Kitchen Rules.

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  • Philippe Etchebest

    Philippe Etchebest

    Philippe Etchebest (French pronunciation: [filip ɛtʃəbɛst]; born 2 December 1966) is a French chef. He was awarded two Michelin stars at the Hostellerie de Plaisance in Saint-Émilion, France. He appears on French television in Top Chef, Objectif Top Chef and Cauchemar en cuisine, the French-language version of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

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  • Cyril Lignac

    Cyril Lignac

    Cyril Lignac (French pronunciation: [siʁil liɲak]; born 5 November 1977) is a French chef. He is owner and chef of the gourmet restaurant Le Quinzième (1 Michelin star), also of Le Chardenoux, a Parisian bistro located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, another bistro located in the Saint-Germain des Près district: Aux Prés and two pastry shops La Pâtisserie Cyril Lignac located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris and in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Since 2010, his workshop Cuisine Attitude located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, had provided cooking and pastry classes. Chef Lignac is also TV presenter for culinary programs on the French television channel M6, and signed a series of more than 40 cookbooks which sold over 3 million copies.

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  • Frédéric Anton

    Frédéric Anton

    Frédéric Anton (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik ɑ̃tɔ̃], born 15 October 1964) is a French chef, Meilleur Ouvrier de France and three stars at the Guide Michelin since 2007. He is the chef of Parisian restaurants Le Pré Catelan (within the Bois de Boulogne) and Le Jules Verne (in the Eiffel Tower).

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  • Arnaud Donckele

    Arnaud Donckele

    Arnaud Donckele (born 29 March 1977) is a French chef. He currently runs two Michelin 3-star restaurants, La Vague d'Or at Cheval Blanc St-Tropez (formerly Résidence de la Pinède) and "Plénitude" at Cheval Blanc Paris. His Saint-Tropez restaurant was awarded 3 Michelin stars in 2013, his Parisian restaurant in 2022.

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  • Glenn Viel

    Glenn Viel

    Glenn Viel is a French chef. He was awarded 3 Michelin stars at the restaurant l'Oustau de Baumanière..

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  • Pascal Barbot

    Pascal Barbot

    Pascal Barbot (born 7 June 1972) is a French chef. His restaurant L'Astrance in Paris earned one Michelin star 2023, a year after the reopening of the restaurant at a new location, and has kept the star ever since. Previously L'Astrance had three stars from 2007 to 2018 before being demoted to two stars in 2019. In a 2013 review, food writer Elizabeth Auerbach declared that Barbot "belongs to the small but illustrious group of French chefs who have a truly international profile and are thus the ambassadors of modern French cuisine."

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  • Alexandre Couillon

    Alexandre Couillon

    Alexandre Couillon (born December 9, 1975) is a French chef based in Noirmoutier. Featured in the 2018 Netflix documentary series Chef's Table: France, Couillon's seafood restaurant La Marine, which he inherited from his parents and which he now runs with his wife Celine, has received a three-star rating from the Michelin Guide.

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  • Mauro Uliassi

    Mauro Uliassi

    Mauro Uliassi is an Italian chef who, with his sister Catia Uliassi, leads Uliassi on the Adriatic coast in Senigallia, a destination long associated with refined seafood and hospitality. The restaurant is celebrated for menus that read the rhythms of the sea and the seasons, balancing classic Italian craft with a restless curiosity about flavor and texture. Uliassi’s work helped define modern Italian fine dining outside the country’s largest cities, showing how a family-run room could compete on the world stage through discipline, warmth, and a clear point of view. His cuisine is often described as elegant and deeply personal, rooted in the ingredients of the Marche while speaking fluently to international guests. Recognition from guides and global lists has followed the restaurant’s evolution, reflecting years of steady refinement rather than a single signature gimmick. Beyond the pass, Uliassi is known as a generous mentor within Italy’s restaurant community, encouraging younger cooks to treat technique as a language rather than a trophy. The Uliassi story is inseparable from Senigallia itself: a place where the dining room, the kitchen, and the shoreline feel like one continuous landscape.

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  • Norbert Niederkofler

    Norbert Niederkofler

    Norbert Niederkofler is an Austrian chef whose name is synonymous with alpine cooking at its most thoughtful. For years he steered the kitchen at St. Hubertus in San Cassiano, within the Rosa Alpina hospitality family, where his “Cook the Mountain” philosophy turned local peaks, meadows, and forests into a coherent culinary grammar. Rather than importing luxury for its own sake, Niederkofler built menus around what the mountains could offer with care, seasonality, and respect for small producers. His leadership helped reposition South Tyrol as a serious fine-dining region, not merely a ski destination with great hotels. Colleagues describe him as exacting and deeply collaborative, interested in systems that protect both flavor and place. The restaurant’s ascent in global rankings mirrored a broader shift toward sustainability as a creative constraint rather than a marketing slogan. Even as fashions change, Niederkofler’s imprint remains visible in a generation of cooks who learned to treat altitude, climate, and community as ingredients. His career is a case study in how a clear ethical frame can sharpen aesthetics instead of softening them.

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  • Harald Wohlfahrt

    Harald Wohlfahrt

    Harald Wohlfahrt (German pronunciation: [ˈhaːʁalt ˈvoːlfaːɐ̯t]; born 7 November 1955) is a German chef. In 2005, he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz. He is frequently rated as the best German chef and among the finest chefs in Europe. Wohlfahrt's claim for fame is that his former restaurant, Schwarzwaldstube in Baiersbronn-Tonbach (Baden-Württemberg), has maintained three stars for 25 consecutive years under his leadership, a record in Germany. It was voted 35th best in the world in the Restaurant Top 50 and, in 2009, it was voted 23rd in the worlds 50 best Restaurants. Wohlfahrt is credited with training six of the other nine German chefs awarded three-stars in the "Guide Michelin 2013 - Deutschland". In 2017, Wohlfahrt was expected to hand over the head chef position at Hotel Traube Tonbach to Torsten Michel. As part of the succession plan, Wohlfahrt was supposed to assume the newly formed position of "Culinary Director" for the entire Hotel Traube Tonbach. In this executive position, top chef Wohlfahrt had neither an operative role in the restaurant nor any opportunity to further develop the culinary arts. In the transition through the succession plan, Wohlfahrt was for some period formally banned from entering the Schwarzwaldstube. Wohlfahrt eventually sued the hotel and its owner in order to maintain the head chef position. On 25 July 2017, the court case was settled and closed as both parties reached an undisclosed agreement. Wohlfahrt will no longer be part of the Hotel Traube Tonbach.

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  • Tim Raue

    Tim Raue

    Tim Raue (born 31 March 1974) is a German chef. He is currently head chef at Tim Raue, a Michelin two-star restaurant in Berlin.

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  • Kolja Kleeberg

    Kolja Kleeberg

    Kolja Kleeberg is a German chef and television personality who became a household name through a long public career that blended restaurant cooking with media storytelling. Trained in classical kitchens, he rose to prominence in Berlin’s dining scene and became associated with ambitious, cosmopolitan cooking that still nodded to German comfort and generosity. Kleeberg’s visibility on food television helped demystify professional technique for home cooks, even when his own restaurants pursued a more polished language. Critics have sometimes separated his “chef” and “celebrity” identities, but in practice the through-line is an appetite for performance and precision alike. He has authored cookbooks and collaborated on projects that extend beyond a single dining room, reflecting a restless curiosity about how restaurants connect to culture at large. While not every chapter of his career stayed in the fine-dining lane, his influence on how Germans talk about restaurants in the early 2000s is hard to overstate. Kleeberg remains a reference point for a generation that first encountered serious cooking through the screen as much as through the table.

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  • Ana Roš

    Ana Roš

    Ana Roš (born 1972) is a Slovene chef. Her restaurant Hiša Franko, located in Kobarid, Slovenia, in the Soča Valley, was awarded three Michelin stars in 2023, the first Slovenian restaurant so recognized. She has no formal culinary training.

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  • Bo Bech

    Bo Bech

    Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. In 2009, it was reported that fourteen of the 22 restaurants featured on the show to that point had closed, with some owners directly blaming Ramsay and the show for their demise.

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  • Rasmus Kofoed

    Rasmus Kofoed

    Rasmus Kofoed (born 1974) is a Danish chef and restaurateur who won the gold medal at the 2011 Bocuse d'Or, after previously taking the bronze medal in 2005 and the silver medal in 2007 in the same competition. He is the head chef and co-owner of Geranium, a 3-star Michelin restaurant in Copenhagen.

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  • Zaiyu Hasegawa

    Zaiyu Hasegawa

    Stephane De Baets (born April 6, 1969) is a Belgian investment, real estate, and hospitality entrepreneur. He is founder and president of the international asset management firm Elevated Returns, which controls the Aspen St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colorado and other commercial properties in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He is also the founder and owner of Chefs Club, a restaurant group that features a rotating residency of chefs from around the world. De Baets is a pioneer in blockchain-based real estate investing. Through his firm Elevated Returns, he facilitated the first major commercial real estate transaction using blockchain technology to sell ownership stakes in the Aspen St. Regis Resort. He was also formerly part-owner of OptAsia Capital, a Bangkok-based investment firm founded in 2008, until he divested in 2018. He recently acquired the historic Redstone Castle in Redstone Colorado. He plans on transforming the legendary Castle into the flagship USA location of Bangkok-based RAKxa Medical Spa.

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  • Yoshihiro Narisawa

    Yoshihiro Narisawa

    Yoshihiro Narisawa (成澤 由浩, Narisawa Yoshihiro; born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese chef and owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Narisawa in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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  • Kei Kobayashi

    Kei Kobayashi

    Kei Kobayashi (小林圭 Kobayashi Kei born 29 August 1977) is a Japanese chef and owner of the restaurant Kei in Paris 1e. His restaurant earned three Michelin stars in 2020. He is the first Japanese chef to earn three Michelin stars in France. Kobayashi was born in Nagano. He elected to focus on French cuisine after viewing a documentary about Alain Chapel. Kobayashi trained at French restaurants in Japan before moving to France in 1998 to work with Gilles Goujon and Alain Ducasse, at Plaza Athénée.

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  • Takashi Saito

    Takashi Saito

    Takashi Saito (斎藤 隆, Saitō Takashi; born February 14, 1970) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently the chief pitching coach for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Saito's professional career spanned 23 years. He spent his first 13 seasons pitching for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales / BayStars in the Japanese Central League, compiling a record of 87–80, usually as a starter. He spent the next seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a closer and relief pitcher, before finishing his career in Japan with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. In his first MLB season of 2006, Saito finished eighth in the National League Cy Young Award voting. In his second season, he was named an All-Star. Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully bestowed the nickname "the Man from Miyagi" upon him, in reference to the prefecture that encompasses Saito's place of birth. He was also nicknamed "Sammy" by his Dodgers teammates Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp, who affectionally compared him to Sammy Sosa.

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  • Shinji Kanesaka

    Shinji Kanesaka

    Shinji Kanesaka is a Japanese sushi master from Chiba Prefecture who built one of the most respected Edomae sushi brands of the early twenty-first century. After roughly a decade of rigorous training in Tokyo, he opened Sushi Kanesaka in Ginza in 2000, a counter that became a pilgrimage site for diners seeking balance, timing, and quiet virtuosity. Kanesaka’s style insists that sushi is a triangle of fish, shari, and wasabi—each element tuned daily to humidity, temperature, and the maturity of the catch. His flagship in Tokyo earned sustained Michelin recognition, and international outposts extended the same discipline to new cities, often inside luxury hotels where the intimacy of the counter still feels paramount. Mentorship matters in his organization: many alumni have opened respected rooms of their own, carrying forward an ethos of repetition until movement becomes instinct. Kanesaka’s expansion into London, Singapore, and other markets sparked debate about authenticity versus adaptation, yet his answer has typically been the same: let the guest taste the difference between craft and branding. He remains a touchstone for Edomae sushi outside Japan.

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  • Hideki Takayama

    Hideki Takayama

    Panic Restaurant, known in Japan as Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World (わんぱくコックンのグルメワールド), is a 1992 platform game developed by EIM and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Panic Restaurant stars a chef named Cookie who must navigate through his own restaurant, which has been cursed by a rival chef named Ohdove. Cookie has to battle evil food monsters with kitchen utensil weapons in six levels before taking on Ohdove in a final battle.

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  • Naoko Takei Moore

    Naoko Takei Moore

    Naoko Takei Moore is a Tokyo-born cook, author, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles who became North America’s most persuasive advocate for donabe—Japan’s versatile clay-pot cooking tradition. After studying international relations and working in the music business, she moved to California and pursued formal culinary training, then wine credentials, before turning her attention to a humbler object: the lidded earthenware pot. In 2008 she launched TOIRO, first as a small online shop centered on Nagatani-en’s Kamado-san rice cooker, and later as a West Hollywood retail space celebrating Japanese artisan cookware. Moore’s 2015 cookbook “Donabe,” published by Ten Speed Press, helped English-language readers understand donabe not as a gadget but as a daily ritual connecting season, table, and community. She teaches classes, imports carefully chosen pieces, and narrates Japanese food culture with clarity and warmth. Her work sits at the intersection of design, education, and hospitality: she is less interested in spectacle than in helping people cook more thoughtfully at home. Moore’s biography is a reminder that influence in food does not always require a tasting menu.

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  • Roy Yamaguchi

    Roy Yamaguchi

    Roy Yamaguchi (born 1956) is a Japanese-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and founder of a collection of restaurants, including 30 Roy's Restaurants in the United States and Guam, the Tavern by Roy Yamaguchi and Eating House 1849. He is one of the founding members of the Hawaii Regional Cuisine movement.

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  • Alan Wong

    Alan Wong

    Alan Wong (born November 2, 1956), is an American chef and restaurateur known for his contributions to Hawaiian cuisine.

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  • Sam Choy

    Sam Choy

    Sam Choy Sr. is an American chef, restaurateur, and television personality known as "the godfather of poke" and a founding contributor of Pacific Rim cuisine.

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  • Jet Tila

    Jet Tila

    Jet Tilakamonkul, known professionally as Jet Tila (Thai: เจ็ท ติลกมลกุล; RTGS: Chet Tilakamonkun), is an American celebrity chef, author, restaurateur, and restaurant developer.

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  • Eddie Huang

    Eddie Huang

    Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982) is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography, Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, of which he narrated the whole first season.

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  • Ming Tsai

    Ming Tsai

    Ming Hao Tsai (Chinese: 蔡明昊; pinyin: Cài Mínghào; born 1964) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality, and former squash player. His restaurants have focused on east–west fusion cuisine, and have included major stakes in Blue Ginger in Wellesley, Massachusetts (a Zagat- and James Beard-recognized establishment) from 1998 to 2017, and Blue Dragon in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston (a Zagat-recognized tapas-style gastropub named in Esquire Magazine "Best New Restaurants 2013"). Tsai hosts Simply Ming, a cooking show featured on American Public Television, in its seventeenth season. Past shows Tsai hosted include Ming's Quest, a cooking show featured on the Fine Living Network, and East Meets West. Tsai appeared in the Food Network cooking competition The Next Iron Chef (2010).

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  • Ken Hom

    Ken Hom

    Ken Hom (traditional Chinese: 譚榮輝; simplified Chinese: 谭荣辉; pinyin: Tán Rónghuī, born May 3, 1949) is a Chinese-American chef, author and television-show presenter for the BBC, specialising in Asian and East/West Cuisine. Already appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009 for "services to culinary arts", he was further appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2022.

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  • Martin Yan

    Martin Yan

    Martin Yan Man-daat (Chinese: 甄文達; Cantonese Yale: Yan1 Man4 Daat6; born 22 December 1948) is a Hong Kong-American chef and food writer. He has hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show Yan Can Cook since 1982.

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  • Luke Nguyen

    Luke Nguyen

    Luke Nguyen (Vietnamese: Luke Nguyễn; born 8 September 1978) is an Australian chef, restaurateur and television presenter of Vietnamese descent.

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  • Peter Gilmore

    Peter Gilmore

    John Peter Gilmore (25 August 1931 – 3 February 2013), known as Peter Gilmore, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC television period drama The Onedin Line (1971–1980), created by Cyril Abraham.

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  • Ben Shewry

    Ben Shewry

    Ben Shewry (born 1977) is a New Zealand Chef and restaurateur of Attica restaurant in Melbourne, a certified B Corporation and author of two books, Origin (Murdoch Books, out of print) and Uses for Obsession (Murdoch Books, 2024)

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  • Josh Niland

    Josh Niland

    Josh Niland (born in 1988 or 1989) is an Australian chef, known for practice of cooking fish with little waste.

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  • Neil Perry

    Neil Perry

    Neil Arthur Perry AM is an Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. He also is the co-ordinator for Qantas Flight Catering under his company Rockpool Consulting.

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  • Matt Moran

    Matt Moran

    Matthew Moran (born 15 May 1969) is an Australian chef and restaurateur also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows.

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  • Shannon Bennett

    Shannon Bennett

    Shannon Bennett (born 23 November 1975) is an Australian chef and author. He is best known as the head chef of restaurant Vue de Monde at Melbourne's Rialto Tower. Bennett currently serves as the creative director at the restaurant and its parent company Vue Groups, having previously been the executive chef. He has made many appearances as a guest judge on the popular cooking show MasterChef Australia. Bennett also owns and operates several other hospitality venues in Melbourne – Vue Events at Rialto, The Lui Bar, Bistro Vue, Benny Burger and Café Vue in two locations - and has written six books. He has appeared on a number of Australian food television shows and he is a brand ambassador for Miele and Audi and Nespresso.

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  • George Calombaris

    George Calombaris

    George Dimitrios Calombaris (Greek: Γεώργιος Δημήτριος Καλομβάρης) is an Australian chef and restaurateur and television personality. Calombaris was one of the judges of the Network 10 series MasterChef Australia from 2009 to 2019. Prior to his role on MasterChef Australia, Calombaris appeared regularly on the daytime Network Ten cooking show Ready Steady Cook. He owned several restaurants in Melbourne. His flagship restaurant, The Press Club, was awarded The Age Good Food Guide "Best New Restaurant 2008" with Calombaris named "Chef of the Year 2008". Calombaris draws on his Greek, Cypriot and Italian heritage for inspiration. In 2019, Calombaris's company MAdE Establishment Group admitted to underpaying A$7.83 million in wages to 515 employees, which was back-paid. MAdE agreed to pay $200,000 to the Australian Government and to undertake a number of other activities. In February 2020, MAdE went into voluntary administration, with the majority of its venues closed immediately.

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  • Curtis Duffy

    Curtis Duffy

    Curtis Duffy is an American chef and restaurateur known for the Chicago-based restaurants Ever and Grace. Among his various accolades are Michelin stars and a James Beard Award.

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  • Sean Brock

    Sean Brock

    Sean Brock is an American chef specializing in Southern cuisine.

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  • Edward Lee

    Edward Lee

    Edward Lee may refer to: Edward Lee (basketball) (1925–1988), Chinese Olympic basketball player Edward Lee (writer) (born 1957), American horror writer Edward Lee (bishop) (1482–1544), Archbishop of York, 1531–1544 Edward Lewis Lee Jr. (born 1934), American Episcopal bishop Edward Merwin Lee (1835–1913), Union officer during the American Civil War Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield (1663–1716), English peer Edward Edson Lee (1884–1944), American children's literature author Edward Lee (billiards player) (1905–1969), American professional carom billiards player Edward Lee (footballer), early 20th century English association footballer Edward Lee (scientist) (1914–2001), British scientist, inventor, and civil servant Edward Graham Lee (born 1931), former Canadian ambassador to Israel Edward Lee (politician) (1822–1883), New Zealand politician Edward Lee (cricketer) (1877–1942), English cricketer Edward Lee (chef), American chef Edward A. Lee (born 1957), Puerto Rican computer scientist, electrical engineer, and author Edward Lee Poh Lin (1949–2011), Malaysian politician

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  • Kwame Onwuachi

    Kwame Onwuachi

    Kwame Onwuachi (; born November 11, 1989) is an American chef. He was a contestant on Top Chef (season 13) in 2015. He has opened several restaurants including Shaw Bijou, Kith and Kin, Tatiana and Dōgon. In 2019, the James Beard Foundation named him "Rising Star Chef of the Year."

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  • Mashama Bailey

    Mashama Bailey

    Mashama Bailey is an American chef trained in French technique who is currently cooking Southern cuisine. In 2019, Bailey was awarded a James Beard Award as best chef of the Southeast. In 2022, Bailey was awarded a James Beard Award as Outstanding Chef.

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  • Stephanie Izard

    Stephanie Izard

    Stephanie Izard is an American chef and television personality best known as the first female chef to win Bravo's Top Chef, taking the title during its fourth season. She is the co-owner and executive chef of three award-winning Chicago restaurants, Girl and the Goat, Little Goat, and Duck Duck Goat, and opened her first restaurant, Scylla (now closed) as chef-owner at the age of 27. Valley Goat is the newest iteration, in Sunnyvale, California. Izard received a James Beard Foundation Award for "Best Chef: Great Lakes" in 2013 for her work at Girl and the Goat. She has made a number of appearances on Top Chef since her win, both as a guest judge on subsequent seasons and as a participant in Top Chef Duels. In 2017, Izard competed in the Food Network series Iron Chef Gauntlet, where she overall defeated chefs Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, and Masaharu Morimoto to obtain the title of Iron Chef.

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  • Grant MacPherson

    Grant MacPherson

    Hugh MacPherson Wolff (born October 21, 1953, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

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  • Michael Mina

    Michael Mina

    Michael Mina (Arabic: مايكل مينا; born 1969) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the founder of the Mina Group, a restaurant management company operating over 40 restaurants worldwide. He is the executive chef at his two namesake restaurants in San Francisco and Las Vegas, which each have earned a star in the Michelin Guide. He authored his first cookbook in 2006 and has made numerous television appearances.

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  • Suzanne Goin

    Suzanne Goin

    Suzanne Goin (born 25 September 1966) is an American chef and restaurateur from Los Angeles, California. She was named one of Food & Wine magazine's "best new chefs of 1999" and won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef in 2016. In 2006, Goin won the Beard Award for Best Chef: California and one for her cookbook, Sunday Suppers at Lucques.

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  • Nancy Oakes

    Nancy Oakes

    Nancy Oakes is an American chef, who is head chef of Boulevard, and won the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef in 2001.

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  • April Bloomfield

    April Bloomfield

    April Bloomfield (born 1974) is a British-American chef who has opened two New York restaurants: The Spotted Pig (closed January 26, 2020) and The Breslin Bar & Dining Room. Bloomfield had previously worked at several restaurants in the United Kingdom, including The River Café and Bibendum.

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  • Andrew Zimmern

    Andrew Zimmern

    Andrew Scott Zimmern (born July 4, 1961) is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman, food critic, and author. Zimmern is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Dining with Death, The Zimmern List, and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food, as well as the Food Network series The Big Food Truck Tip. For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award four times: in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017. Zimmern hosts a cooking webseries on YouTube, Andrew Zimmern Cooks. Another show, What's Eating America, premiered on MSNBC in 2020. In November 2018, Zimmern opened a Chinese restaurant, Lucky Cricket, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

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  • Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Michael Bourdain ( bor-DAYN; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author and travel documentarian. He starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdain was a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in 1978, and a veteran of many professional kitchens during his career, which included several years spent as an executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. In the late 1990s, Bourdain wrote an essay about the ugly secrets of a Manhattan restaurant, but was having difficulty getting it published. According to The New York Times, his mother Gladys—then an editor and writer at the paper—handed her son's essay to friend and fellow editor Esther B. Fein, the wife of David Remnick, editor of the magazine The New Yorker. Remnick ran Bourdain's essay in the magazine, kickstarting Bourdain's career and legitimizing the point-blank tone that would become his trademark. The success of the article was followed a year later by the publication of a New York Times best-selling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000). Bourdain's first food and world-travel television show A Cook's Tour ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he began hosting the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005–2012) and The Layover (2011–2013). In 2013, he began a three-season run as a judge on The Taste and consequently switched his travelogue programming to CNN to…

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  • Jacques Pépin

    Jacques Pépin

    Jacques Pépin (French pronunciation: [ʒak pepɛ̃]; born December 18, 1935) is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist. After having been the personal chef of French president Charles de Gaulle, he moved to the US in 1959 and after working in New York's top French restaurants, refused the same job with President John F. Kennedy in the White House and instead took a culinary development job with Howard Johnson's. During his career, he has served in numerous prestigious restaurants, first, in Paris, and then in America. He has appeared on American television and has written for The New York Times, Food & Wine and other publications. He has authored more than 30 cookbooks, some of which have become best sellers. Pépin was a longtime friend of the American chef Julia Child, and their 1999 PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home won a Daytime Emmy Award. He also holds a BA and a MA from Columbia University in French literature. He has been honored with 24 James Beard Foundation Awards, five honorary doctoral degrees, the American Public Television lifetime achievement award, the Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2019 and the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit, in 2004. Since 1989, Pépin has taught in the Culinary Arts Program at Boston University and served as dean of special programs at the International Culinary Center in New York City. In 2016, with his daughter, Claudine Pépin and his son-in-law, Rollie Wesen, Pépin created the Jacques Pépin…

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  • Julia Child

    Julia Child

    Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.

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  • James Beard

    James Beard

    James Andrews Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 21, 1985) was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality. He pioneered television cooking shows, taught at The James Beard Cooking School in New York City and Seaside, Oregon, and lectured widely. He emphasized American cooking, prepared with fresh and wholesome American ingredients, to a country just becoming aware of its own culinary heritage. Beard taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. He published more than twenty books, and his memory is honored by his foundation's annual James Beard Awards.

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  • Edna Lewis

    Edna Lewis

    Edna Regina Lewis (April 13, 1916 – February 13, 2006) was a renowned American chef, teacher, and author who helped refine the American view of Southern cooking. She championed the use of fresh, in season ingredients and characterized Southern food as fried chicken (pan-, not deep-fried), pork, and fresh vegetables – most especially greens. She wrote and co-wrote four books which covered Southern cooking and life in a small community of freed slaves and their descendants, including The Taste of Country Cooking and In Pursuit of Flavor.

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  • Paul Prudhomme

    Paul Prudhomme

    Paul Prudhomme (July 13, 1940 – October 8, 2015), also known as Gene Autry Prudhomme, was an American celebrity chef whose specialties were Creole and Cajun cuisines, which he was also credited with popularizing. He was the chef proprietor of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen in New Orleans, and had formerly owned and run several other restaurants. He developed several culinary products, including hot sauce and seasoning mixes, and wrote 11 cookbooks.

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  • Leah Chase

    Leah Chase

    Leyah (Leah) Chase (née Lange; January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a gathering place during the 1960s among many who participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and was known as a gallery due to its extensive African-American art collection. In 2018 it was named one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years by Food & Wine. Chase was the recipient of a multitude of awards and honors. In her 2002 biography, Chase's awards and honors occupy over two pages. Chase was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America in 2010. She was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance in 2000. Chase received honorary degrees from Tulane University, Dillard University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Madonna College, Loyola University New Orleans, and Johnson & Wales University. She was awarded Times-Picayune Loving Cup Award in 1997. The Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, named a permanent gallery in Chase's honor in 2009.

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  • Thomasina Miers

    Thomasina Miers

    Thomasina Jean Miers, OBE (born February 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is the co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants.

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  • Yotam Ottolenghi

    Yotam Ottolenghi

    Yotam Assaf Ottolenghi (Hebrew: יותם אוטולנגי; born 14 December 1968) is an Israeli-born British chef, restaurateur, and food writer. Alongside Sami Tamimi, he is the co-owner of nine delis and restaurants in London and Bicester Village and the author of several bestselling cookbooks, including Ottolenghi: The Cookbook (2008), Plenty (2010), Jerusalem (2012) and Simple (2018).

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  • Asma Khan

    Asma Khan

    Asma Khan (born July 1969) is an Indian-born British restaurateur and cookbook author. She owns Darjeeling Express restaurant in London's Soho and was profiled on the sixth season of the documentary series Chef's Table. In 2019 Business Insider named Khan number 1 on their list of "100 Coolest People in Food and Drink". In 2022 the World Food Programme named her a chef advocate and in 2024 Time named her one of the year's 100 most influential people.

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  • Ravinder Bhogal

    Ravinder Bhogal

    Ravinder Bhogal is a food writer, restaurateur, British chef, journalist and stylist. She opened her first restaurant, Jikoni, in Marylebone, London in September 2016. Bhogal's work and food spans flavours and culinary traditions from the Far East, South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Great Britain, and she celebrates the idea of immigrant cuisine. Ravinder has written several cookbooks and writes a regular monthly column for the FT Weekend and Guardian Feast. Bhogal is contributing editor at Harper’s Bazaar and regularly writes for The Observer Magazine, The Guardian and Vogue online.

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  • Claus Meyer

    Claus Meyer

    Claus Meyer (born 27 December 1963) is a Danish entrepreneur, cook and television host. He is often accredited as the founder of the New Nordic Cuisine philosophy.

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  • Jeremy Chan

    Jeremy Chan

    Jeremy Chan Ming Yuew (born 17 July 1981) is a Singaporean actor and host.

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  • Vicky Lau

    Vicky Lau

    Vicky Lau, a culinary entrepreneur born in Hong Kong, is the founder and head chef of Tate Dining Room, a restaurant awarded two-Michelin star, and green Michelin star Mora. In 2015, she was named the Best Female Chef in Asia by Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.

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  • André Chiang

    André Chiang

    André Chiang (Chinese: 江振誠; pinyin: Jiāng Zhènchéng; born 27 April 1976) is a Taiwanese chef and owner of five restaurants. He is the former head chef of the three Michelin star restaurant Le Jardin des Sens in France. He is known for his "Octo-philosophy" of eight elements which make up his dishes. In 2017, his Michelin 2-star eponymous Restaurant André was named the Best Restaurant in Singapore, and the second-best in Asia by Restaurant magazine.

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  • Chan Hon Meng

    Chan Hon Meng

    Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle (simplified Chinese: 香港油鸡饭·面; traditional Chinese: 香港油雞飯·麵) is a street food stall in Outram, Singapore. It is owned and run by Chan Hon Meng. In 2016, the stall became one of the first two street food locations in the world to be awarded a star in the Michelin Guide, although it lost its star in 2021. It has since become internationally franchised under the English name Hawker Chan.

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  • David Thompson

    David Thompson

    David or Dave Thompson may refer to:

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  • Ton Nahm

    Ton Nahm

    Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller (French pronunciation: [sebastjɛ̃ alɛʁ]; born 22 June 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Utrecht. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team. Haller began his career in France with Auxerre, and moved on loan to Eredivisie side Utrecht in 2015, before signing on a permanent basis. Two years later, he moved to the German club Eintracht Frankfurt, winning the DFB-Pokal in 2018. Premier League side West Ham United signed him a year later for a club-record transfer worth €49.8 million (£45 million). Haller returned to the Netherlands in 2021, signing with Ajax, for a club record fee of €22.5 million (£18.8 million). In his first six months, he won the Eredivisie and the KNVB Cup. He became the first player to score across seven consecutive UEFA Champions League matches during the 2021–22 season, and then transferred to Borussia Dortmund for an initial €31 million. Haller represented France at youth level, before switching his allegiance in 2020 to the Ivory Coast. He scored on his international debut against Madagascar, and represented the national team at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2021 and 2023, scoring the winning goal in the final of the latter tournament.

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  • Prue Leith

    Prue Leith

    Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, (born 18 February 1940) is a South African and British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer, novelist, chef, and former university administrator. Leith was a judge on BBC Two's Great British Menu for eleven years, from 2005-16. She left it to join The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry as a judge, when the television programme moved to Channel 4. She remained a judge until 2025. She was Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh from 2016 to 2024.

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  • Ainsley Harriott

    Ainsley Harriott

    Ainsley Denzil Dubriel Harriott (born 28 February 1957) is an English chef and television presenter. He is known for his BBC cooking game shows Can't Cook, Won't Cook and Ready Steady Cook.

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  • Gennaro Contaldo

    Gennaro Contaldo

    Gennaro Contaldo OSI (Italian pronunciation: [dʒenˈnaːro konˈtaldo]; born 20 January 1949) is an Italian chef known for his association with his British protégé, Jamie Oliver, and his partnership with fellow Italian chef Antonio Carluccio and their BBC Two television series Two Greedy Italians.

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  • Marco Canora

    Marco Canora

    Marco Canora is an American chef, restaurateur and television personality. He has appeared on the Food Network on shows such as The Next Iron Chef, Chopped and Top Chef. Canora owns the Hearth Restaurant and Terroir wine bar in New York and is also the founder of Brodo, a marketer, producer and seller of bone broth. Canora has authored three cookbooks. Salt to Taste: The Keys To Confident, Delicious Cooking was nominated for the 2010 James Beard Publishing Award.

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  • Chris Bianco

    Chris Bianco

    Chris Bianco is an American James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur in Phoenix, Arizona. He operates restaurants in Arizona and California.

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  • Nancy Fuller

    Nancy Fuller

    Nancy Fuller (also known as Nancy Fuller Ginsberg or Nancy Ginsberg; born March 27, 1949) is an American chef and businesswoman from Claverack, New York. She is the co-owner of Ginsberg's Foods, and the host of the Food Network television series Farmhouse Rules. She also serves as a judge on the Food Network cooking competition series Clash of the Grandmas, Holiday Baking Championship and Spring Baking Championship.

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  • Maneet Chauhan

    Maneet Chauhan

    Maneet Chauhan (born 27 October 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is an Indian American chef and television personality. Previously the executive chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on Chopped on the Food Network. She has appeared on The Next Iron Chef, on The View on ABC, Iron Chef America, the Today show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of Worst Cooks in America on Food Network. She has also won the 2021 and 2024 Food Network competition Tournament of Champions.

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  • Georgiana Viou

    Georgiana Viou

    Georgiana Viou (born 1977) is a chef from Benin. Viou specializes in Mediterranean cuisine with an African touch. In 2023, she became the first black female chef in France to be awarded a Michelin star. She is a judge for MasterChef France and a cookbook author.

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  • Pierre Koffmann

    Pierre Koffmann

    Pierre Koffmann (born 21 August 1948) is a French chef. In 1983, his London restaurant La Tante Claire became the second in the United Kingdom to be awarded three Michelin stars. Until December 2016, he was the head chef of Koffmann's at The Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge, London.

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  • Raymond Blanc

    Raymond Blanc

    Raymond Blanc OBE (born 19 November 1949) is a French chef. Blanc is the chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the Good Food Guide. He is entirely self-taught, and has taught or employed chefs including Heston Blumenthal, John Burton-Race, Michael Caines, Paul Liebrandt, and Marco Pierre White.

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  • Alvin Leung

    Alvin Leung

    Alvin Leung King-Lon (Chinese: 梁經倫; born 1 January 1961) is a Canadian chef and television personality. His restaurants hold two Michelin stars at Bo Innovation and one Michelin star at aKin. Nicknamed The Demon Chef, he invented his own cuisine named X-Treme Chinese, which includes meals such as an edible condom on a mushroom beach. His restaurant Bo London, based in Mayfair, London closed after a year in business. Another restaurant, Bo Shanghai was opened in Shanghai. Leung's fourth and fifth restaurants, R&D and aKin, are collaborations with Eric Chong and are located in Toronto. Leung has appeared as a judge on MasterChef Canada from its debut in 2014 to 2021.

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  • Pam Pichaya

    Pam Pichaya

    Pichaya Soontornyanakij (Thai: พิชญา สุนทรญาณกิจ, born Pichaya Utharntharm; Thai: พิชญา อุทารธรรม) is professionally known as Chef Pam, is a Thai chef, restaurateur, and television personality. She is best known for her work in contemporary Thai-Chinese cuisine and as the founder of the Michelin-starred POTONG in Bangkok, Thailand. She was named The World’s Best Female Chef 2025 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, following her recognition as Asia’s Best Female Chef in 2024. Chef Pam is the first Asian and Thai female chef to receive the World’s Best Female Chef award. She has received multiple accolades throughout her career, including one Michelin star for POTONG, the “Opening of the Year” award from the Michelin Guide, and the “3 Knives” status from The Best Chef Awards, a recognition unique among Thai female chefs.

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  • Tam Chudaree Debhakam

    Tam Chudaree Debhakam

    Chudaree "Chef Tam" Debhakam (born c. 1993) is a Thai chef from Bangkok. In 2024, she became the first Thai female chef to be awarded two Michelin stars. In 2025, she was named Asia’s Best Female Chef.

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  • Manish Mehrotra

    Manish Mehrotra

    Manish Mehrotra is an Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. In January 2026, Mehrotra opened Nisaba, his first independent restaurant under the Manish Mehrotra Culinary Arts (MMCA) banner, located within the Humayun’s Tomb Museum Complex in Delhi. He previously served as the culinary director of Indian Accent restaurants in Delhi, Mumbai, and New York City, and at Comorin in Gurugram.

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  • Prateek Sadhu

    Prateek Sadhu

    Masque is an Indian restaurant located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It was founded by Prateek Sadhu and Aditi Dugar in 2016. Masque is best known for its 10-course tasting menu and is often counted among Asia's and India's best restaurants. In 2022, it was ranked #21 in the list of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.

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  • Deepanker Khosla

    Deepanker Khosla

    Marisa Chearavanont (Thai: มาริษา เจียรวนนท์), also known as Kang Soo-hyeong, is a Thai-Korean social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and art collector. She is special advisor to Dhanin Chearavanont, the Senior Chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group, a multinational conglomerate. She is also founder and chairman of Chef Cares Project, Chef Cares Foundation, and Khaoyai Art, a Thailand-based art institution. She is also a patron and member of the committees of a number of art institutions. She was named one of the "Women of the Year 2024" by the Bangkok Post.

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  • Bjorn Shen

    Bjorn Shen

    MasterChef Singapore is a Singaporean reality competitive cooking show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Beach House Pictures and Motion Content Group and airs on Mediacorp Channel 5. Bjorn Shen (Chef/Owner of Artichoke), Damian D'Silva (Executive Chef of Restaurant Kin) and Audra Morrice (MasterChef Australia series 4 finalist and MasterChef Asia judge) serve as the show's main judges. The first season premiered at 9:30 pm on 2 September 2018. A second series was announced in August 2020; it premiered on 21 February 2021. A third season of MasterChef Singapore was announced on 19 August 2021, it premiered on 1 May 2022. The fourth season premiered on 9 August 2023.

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  • Will Goldfarb

    Will Goldfarb

    Will Goldfarb (born June 24, 1975, in Port Washington, New York, US) is a Bali, Indonesia-based American pastry chef who was named The World's Best Pastry Chef in Cacao Barry's The World's Best 50 Restaurants 2021 and considered one of the pioneers of the dessert-only tasting menu. Originally from Port Washington, New York, Goldfarb owns with his wife Maria the Ubud, Bali, Indonesia-based restaurant and cocktail bar Room4Dessert. Goldfarb is one of the four pastry chefs featured in the 2018 Netflix series Chef's Table: Pastry, along with Jordi Roca of El Celler de Can Roca, Sicilian gelato maker Corrado Assenza, and Christina Tosi of David Chang's Momofuku Milk Bar chain.

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  • Sébastien Bras

    Sébastien Bras

    Michel Bras (born 4 November 1946) is a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999. It is also classed in the "Relais & Châteaux" since 1992. He was classed several times among the 10 best restaurants in the world.

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  • Jean-François Piège

    Jean-François Piège

    Jean-François Piège (born 25 September 1970) is a French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin.

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  • Guy Martin

    Guy Martin

    Guy Martin (born 4 November 1981) is a British former motorcycle racer, heavy vehicle mechanic and television presenter. He retired from motorcycle racing in July 2017. Martin started racing in 1998 and in 2004 competed on a road circuit for the first time at the Isle of Man TT. He has a total of 17 podium finishes at TT events. He has broken his back twice in racing accidents, in the 2010 TT and the 2015 Ulster Grand Prix. In August 2017, Martin joined Formula 1 car team Williams' pit-crew for the Belgian GP. Martin returned to road racing in May 2019 at the Tandragee 100 in Northern Ireland. Martin starred in Closer to the Edge, a 2011 documentary on TT racing. He has since presented programmes on various engineering topics, as well as the Channel 4 series Speed with Guy Martin when he set speed records in a variety of human and engine powered vehicles. He has also written four books, and competed in mountain bike pedal-cycle races.

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  • Michel Troisgros

    Michel Troisgros

    Pierre Troisgros (3 September 1928 – 23 September 2020) was a French chef and restaurateur, best known for his restaurant Frères Troisgros. Pierre Troisgros and his brother continued their father Jean-Baptiste Troisgros's restaurant Hôtel Moderne, where they invented "Escalope de saumon à l’oseille Troisgros," or salmon with sorrel sauce, which became their signature dish. At the time of his death, he had set a record by never losing his three Michelin stars once he was first awarded them. Stephen Harris for the Telegraph described him "the father of nouvelle cuisine."

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  • César Ramirez

    César Ramirez

    César Ramírez, is a Mexican chef and restaurateur at César, a Michelin-starred French restaurant in New York City.

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  • Junghyun Park

    Junghyun Park

    Atomix is a Korean fine dining restaurant in NoMad, New York City. The restaurant consists of two floors; the main "Chef's Counter" downstairs and the bar upstairs each with their own separate prix-fixe menus with both being reservation only. Along with the Atomix, the same group NA-EUN/나은 Hospitality also runs the sister restaurant Atoboy along with Naro and Seoul Salon. The restaurant is known for its particularly difficult reservations among other NYC restaurants.

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  • Eunji Lee

    Eunji Lee

    Kim Jun-myeon (Korean: 김준면; born May 22, 1991), known professionally as Suho (수호; lit. 'guardian'), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is the leader of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo and its sub-unit Exo-K. He debuted as a soloist on March 30, 2020, with the release of his extended play (EP) Self-Portrait. Outside of his musical career, Suho has also starred in various television dramas and movies such as One Way Trip (2016), The Universe's Star (2017), Rich Man (2018), Middle School Girl A (2018), How Are U Bread (2020), Behind Your Touch (2023), and Missing Crown Prince (2024).

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  • Sohui Kim

    Sohui Kim

    Kim So-hee or Kim So-hui may refer to: Kim So-hee (singer, born 1917), a.k.a. Kim Sun-ok (1917–1995), Korean traditional musician for Pansori Kim Sohyi (born 1965), South Korean chef Kim So-hee (speed skater) (born 1976), South Korean short track speed skater Kim So-hee (taekwondo, born 1992), South Korean taekwondo practitioner Kim So-hui (taekwondo, born 1994), South Korean taekwondo practitioner Kim So-hee (singer, born 1995), South Korean singer Kim So-hee (singer, born 1999), South Korean singer and member of Elris Gim So-hui (born 1996), South Korean alpine skier Kim So-hee (actress) (born 2000), South Korean actress

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  • Akira Back

    Akira Back

    Iron Chef (料理の鉄人, Ryōri no Tetsujin; literally "Iron People of Cooking") is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although four occasional specials were produced from January 5, 2000, to January 2, 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Food Network in Canada, the Cooking Channel in the United States until Asian-American specialty television channel ChimeTV took over reruns in 2022, and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia; in the United States, it is streamed by Peacock TV and Pluto TV. There are 5 spinoffs, with the latest being Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef (アイアンシェフ, Aian Shefu), premiering on October 26, 2012.

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  • Sang Hoon Degeimbre

    Sang Hoon Degeimbre

    Jean-Pierre Gabriel (né Lebailly, born in Wiers, Belgium, on January 11, 1955) is a Belgian photographer, writer, journalist and consultant whose work often combines visual imagery and cultural storytelling. His photographic practice explores subjects such as architecture, gardens, interior design, gastronomy and cultural landscapes. Gabriel describes his photographic work as follows:My work is all about perspective; it's primarily a search for composition. The idea is to isolate scenes, whether the subject is distant or close-up, and to use what's available to me to bring them to life. This essentially involves the different qualities of light and what affects them, such as the emergence of morning dew, the clarity of a sky after rain, or the weight of clouds on the horizon before a storm.

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  • Sung Anh

    Sung Anh

    Sung Anh, also known as Anh Sung-jae (Korean: 안성재), is a South Korean and American chef. His restaurant, Mosu, was awarded three Michelin stars for 2023 and 2024. He is one of the two judges for the Netflix cooking contest Culinary Class Wars.

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  • Vicky Cheng

    Vicky Cheng

    Vicky Cheng (Chinese: 鄭永麒; born in Hong Kong; raised in Toronto) is a Hong Kong‑born, Canadian‑educated chef and restaurateur. He is the founder and executive chef of VEA Restaurant and Wing.

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  • Richard Ekkebus

    Richard Ekkebus

    Richard Ekkebus is the Culinary Director of Mandarin Mandarin Oriental, The Landmark Hong Kong and its fine dining restaurant, Amber. The restaurant was awarded three Michelin Stars in 2025.

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  • Toni Toivanen

    Toni Toivanen

    Popl is a burger restaurant run by Noma chefs in Copenhagen, Denmark. The name comes from the Latin word "populus" meaning community of people, but also refers to poplar wood. Opened in 2020, the restaurant is known for approaching burgers with the same innovative techniques employed at Noma, but keeping a focus on affordability and a simple menu.

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  • Toshio Suzuki

    Toshio Suzuki

    Toshio Suzuki (Japanese: 鈴木 敏夫, Hepburn: Suzuki Toshio; born August 19, 1948) is a Japanese film producer and studio executive. He is a co-founder and the current chairman of Studio Ghibli, one of Japan's most prominent animation studios. Suzuki began his career at Tokuma Shoten, working as a magazine editor and covering manga and animation, before becoming editor of Animage, where he established professional relationships with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. He played a pivotal role in the creation of Studio Ghibli and the production of its early films, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, and Grave of the Fireflies. Suzuki has served as producer or co-producer on numerous Ghibli films, including Kiki’s Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Earwig and the Witch, and The Boy and the Heron. He officially retired from his producer role in 2014, becoming general manager, but has remained involved in the studio's management and creative activities. In 2023, following the acquisition of Studio Ghibli by Nippon Television Holdings, Suzuki became chairman.

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  • Fumio Kondo

    Fumio Kondo

    Iron Chef (料理の鉄人, Ryōri no Tetsujin; literally "Iron People of Cooking") is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although four occasional specials were produced from January 5, 2000, to January 2, 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Food Network in Canada, the Cooking Channel in the United States until Asian-American specialty television channel ChimeTV took over reruns in 2022, and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia; in the United States, it is streamed by Peacock TV and Pluto TV. There are 5 spinoffs, with the latest being Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef (アイアンシェフ, Aian Shefu), premiering on October 26, 2012.

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  • Yukinori Sakamoto

    Yukinori Sakamoto

    Shotaro Mamiya (間宮 祥太朗, Mamiya Shōtarō; born 11 June 1993) is a Japanese actor. He is represented by Tristone Entertainment.

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  • Hiroyasu Kawate

    Hiroyasu Kawate

    Florilège is a Japanese restaurant based in Tokyo serving French-Japanese cuisines. It was opened in 2009 by chef Hiroyasu Kawate. It has an open kitchen that allows guests to watch their dishes being made. It's currently at number 36 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants. It was ranked number 2 in Asia's 50 Best Restaurant 2024 list. It received two Michelin Stars in 2018 and a Michelin Green Star later.

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  • Daniel Humm

    Daniel Humm

    Daniel Humm (born September 21, 1976) is a Swiss chef and owner of Daniel Humm Hospitality, the New York-based hospitality group behind Eleven Madison Park, Clemente Bar, and direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand Eleven Madison Home. In September 2024, he was appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for food education due to his advocacy for sustainable food systems. In 2003, Humm moved to the United States to become the executive chef at Campton Place in San Francisco where he received four stars from the San Francisco Chronicle. Three years later, he moved to New York to become the executive chef at Eleven Madison Park, and in 2011 he and his business partner Will Guidara purchased the restaurant from Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group. In 2017, Eleven Madison Park became number 1 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants. In October 2024, Humm opened Clemente Bar, a cocktail bar and tasting counter on the second floor of Eleven Madison Park.

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  • Ignacio Mattos

    Ignacio Mattos

    Estela is a restaurant located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The restaurant serves American and Mediterranean cuisine, and has received a Michelin star.

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  • Francis Mallmann

    Francis Mallmann

    Francis Mallmann (born January 14, 1956) is an Argentine celebrity chef, author, and restaurateur who specializes in Argentine cuisine, and especially in Patagonian cuisine with a focus on various Patagonian methods of barbecuing food. He has been featured on numerous international television programmes, as well as on the Netflix original series Chef's Table.

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  • Francis Paniego

    Francis Paniego

    Top Chef, also known as Top Chef Spain or Top Chef España, is a Spanish television show based on the American format of the same name. The base of the program is a cooking competition that features chefs competing for the title of best chef in the country. Atresmedia produces the show for its main channel Antena 3 in association with production company Boomerang TV.

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  • Alex Dilling

    Alex Dilling

    Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal is a Michelin-starred French restaurant in London, United Kingdom. The restaurant is attached to the Hotel Café Royal on Regent Street. It was first awarded two Michelin-stars in 2023 within 6 months of its opening. In 2023, the restaurant began operation of a "minimum spend" policy which was seen as controversial due to increasing the price significantly for solo diners. The move as made due to high demand for space and reservations.

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  • John Shields

    John Shields

    John Shields may refer to: John Shields (chef), American chef, food writer, and host of the PBS television show Coastal Cooking with John Shields John Shields (cricketer) (1882–1960), English cricketer John Shields (explorer) (1769–1809), member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition John C. Shields (1848–1892), American jurist from Arizona Territory John G. Shields (1811–1856), American politician from Iowa John K. Shields (1858–1934), U.S. Senator from Tennessee John V. Shields (1932–2014), American businessman Jack Shields (1929–2004), Canadian politician

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  • Patrick O'Connell

    Patrick O'Connell

    Patrick O'Connell may refer to: Patrick O'Connell (American football) (born 1998), American football player Patrick O'Connell (actor) (1934–2017), Irish film and television actor Patrick O'Connell (chef) (born 1945), author, chef, and owner of the Inn at Little Washington Patrick O'Connell (footballer) (1887–1959), Irish footballer and manager Patrick O'Connell (poet) (1944–2005), Canadian poet Paddy O'Connell (born 1966), BBC TV presenter Paddy O'Connell (Gaelic footballer) (1888–1980), Irish Gaelic footballer Pat O'Connell (surfer) (born 1971), American surfer Pat O'Connell (baseball) (1861–1943), Major League Baseball center fielder Pat O'Connell (footballer) (born 1937), English footballer Patrick O'Connell, husband of actress Maggie Baird and father of musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell

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  • Michael White

    Michael White

    Michael or Mike White may refer to:

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  • Fabio Trabocchi

    Fabio Trabocchi

    Fabio Trabocchi is an Italian chef and restaurateur based in Washington, D.C., where his restaurant Fiola earned a Michelin Star. Before opening his own restaurants, Trabocchi ran kitchens in London, Virginia, and New York, winning a James Beard Foundation Award in 2006.

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  • Scott Conant

    Scott Conant

    Scott Conant (born February 19, 1971) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. Since 2009, Conant has been a judge on the reality cooking television series Chopped. He has published four cookbooks.

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  • Marc Forgione

    Marc Forgione

    Marc Forgione (born December 16, 1978) is an American chef who competed in Food Network's Iron Chef America and is now owner of Restaurant Marc Forgione in Tribeca, New York City, Peasant in NOLITA NYC and One Fifth in NYC. He was born on December 16, 1978, and raised in Bellerose, New York. Chef Forgione won the season three of The Next Iron Chef in 2010.

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  • Andrew Carmellini

    Andrew Carmellini

    Andrew Carmellini is an American chef and restaurateur. Carmellini is responsible for the food and drink at the 15 restaurants, bars and food stands he owns with his partners at NoHo Hospitality. He has received a place on Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs list, James Beard Rising Star Chef and Best Chef New York awards, and a Michelin star. He is the author of two cookbooks.

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  • Wylie Dufresne

    Wylie Dufresne

    Wylie Dufresne is an American chef. He was previously the owner of Du's Donuts and the former chef and owner of the wd~50 and Alder restaurants in Manhattan. He now owns Stretch Pizza on 24th Street and Park in Manhattan. Dufresne is a leading American proponent of molecular gastronomy, the movement to incorporate science and new techniques in the preparation and presentation of food.

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  • Dominique Bouchet

    Dominique Bouchet

    Virginie Basselot (born 21 April 1979) is a French chef de cuisine who held one Michelin star at the restaurant within the Saint James Paris hotel. She became the second woman to be named to the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2017, after moving to become executive chef at La Réserve Genève during the previous year, she was named Chef of the Year by the restaurant guide Gault Millau. At the moment she is working in the Hotel Negresco in Nice.

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  • Jean-Christophe Novelli

    Jean-Christophe Novelli

    Jean-Christophe Novelli (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ kʁistɔf nɔvɛli]; born 22 February 1961) is a French chef, restaurateur and television personality.

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  • Pierre White

    Pierre White

    Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995, White became the first British chef and, at age 33, the youngest chef, to earn three Michelin stars. He has trained chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the enfant terrible of the British restaurant scene.

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  • Claude Bosi

    Claude Bosi

    Claude Bosi (born 1972) is a French chef. His first Head Chef position was at Overton Grange in 1999. He opened Hibiscus in the market town of Ludlow, Shropshire, in 2000 and was awarded two Michelin Stars in 2004. In 2007, he relocated the restaurant to London, where he went on to reclaim the two Michelin Stars in 2009. He closed Hibiscus in 2016. In early 2017, he opened his new flagship restaurant, Claude Bosi in Bibendum, in the former Michelin headquarters building in Chelsea. This restaurant was awarded 2 Michelin stars after only 6 months of business.

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  • Brett Graham

    Brett Graham

    Brett Graham (born 1967) is a New Zealand sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore histories of imperialism and global indigenous issues. Graham lives and works in Waiuku on the southern shore of Manukau Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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  • Simon Rogan

    Simon Rogan

    L'Enclume (pronounced [lɑ̃.klym], French for "the anvil") is a Modern British restaurant opened in 2002 in Cartmel, Cumbria, England, run by the chef Simon Rogan and his partner, Penny Tapsell. L'Enclume received a rating of 10 out of 10 five times in The Good Food Guide and was named their top restaurant for the fourth consecutive year in the 2017 guide, and placed second in the 2018 guide. It has received three Michelin stars and five AA Rosettes.

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  • Ashley Palmer-Watts

    Ashley Palmer-Watts

    Dinner by Heston Blumenthal is a restaurant in London, England, created by Heston Blumenthal. Menu items are based on historical British dishes, which were researched by food historians and through the British Library. The restaurant's décor resembles antique British periods. Dinner's opening drew interest within the industry, and reviews have been positive. Particular dishes have received praise, including the Meat Fruit, a chicken liver mousse created to look like a mandarin orange. Opened in January 2011, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal received one Michelin star within a year and earned its second in 2014, which it has held ever since. The British company William Reed Ltd ranked the eatery on its list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants between 2011 and 2018. Dinner was initially headed by Ashley Palmer-Watts, formerly the head chef of another Blumenthal restaurant, The Fat Duck. Jon Miles-Bowring and Adam Tooby-Desmond became his successors. The restaurant has expanded internationally with franchises in Melbourne, Australia, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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  • Matt Abe

    Matt Abe

    Gordon James Ramsay ( RAM-zee; born (1966-11-08)8 November 1966) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world. Ramsay's media persona is defined by his fiery temper, aggressive behaviour, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity, while making blunt, critical, and controversial comments, including insults and sardonic wisecracks about contestants and their cooking abilities. He is known for presenting television programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen (2004), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004–2009, 2014), and The F Word (2005–2010), with Kitchen Nightmares winning the 2005 and 2008 British Academy Television Award for Best Feature, and the American versions of Hell's Kitchen (2005–present), Kitchen Nightmares (2007–2025), MasterChef (2010–present), and MasterChef Junior (2013–present), as well as Hotel Hell (2012–2016), Gordon Behind Bars (2012), Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back (2018–2020), and Next Level Chef (2022–present). Ramsay was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry. He was named the top chef in the UK at the 2000…

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  • Tom Aikens

    Tom Aikens

    Tom Aikens (born 1970) is an English Michelin-starred chef. Aikens briefly worked for chefs in London and Paris restaurants. Under his tenure from 1996 to 1999 as head chef and then chef patron, Pied à Terre earned its two Michelin stars in January 1997. Aikens's current restaurants include Michelin-starred London restaurant Muse, opened in January 2020, and three hotel eateries in Abu Dhabi. He appeared on television, including Great British Menu as one of its contestants and then one of its veteran chef judges.

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  • Michel Sarran

    Michel Sarran

    Michel Sarran, born on 18 April 1961, in Nogaro, in Gers (France), is a chef from Toulouse whose restaurant, which bears his name, has been awarded a Michelin star since 1991, and two stars from 2003 to 2022. He has been one of the jurors of the Top Chef programme on M6 from 2015 to 2021.

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  • Philippe Conticini

    Philippe Conticini

    Philippe Conticini (born 16 August 1963) is a French chef and pastry chef. Philippe Conticini has been described by the French press as "a pastry genius" and "one of the greatest pastry chefs of his time". Having worked in France, in the U.S. and in Japan, he conceived four innovations including verrines in 1994, which present dishes traditionally served on plates in a vertical, transparent container. After receiving several awards and working in Michelin-starred restaurants (including La Table d'Anvers and Petrossian), he cofounded and became head pastry chef of the Pâtisserie des Rêves, a patisserie with outlets in France, Japan and the UK.

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  • Will Guidara

    Will Guidara

    William Guidara (born 1979) is an American restaurateur based in New York City. Along with chef Daniel Humm, Guidara co-owned the Make It Nice hospitality group, established in 2011, which owns and operates Eleven Madison Park, NoMad New York, NoMad Los Angeles, NoMad Las Vegas, NoMad Bar and Made Nice.

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  • Daniel Rose

    Daniel Rose

    Daniel, Dan or Danny Rose may refer to: Daniel Rose (politician) (1772–1833), American politician Danny Rose (footballer, born 1988), English football coach and former professional footballer (Oxford United, Newport County) Danny Rose (footballer, born 1990), English former professional footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, England national team) Danny Rose (footballer, born 1993), English professional footballer for Barrow Dan Rose (footballer, born 2003), Irish professional football goalkeeper Daniel Rose (chef), American-born Paris-based chef Daniel Rose (real estate developer) (born 1929), American real estate developer and philanthropist Daniel Asa Rose (born 1949), American author, journalist, and editor Broadway Danny Rose, 1984 film directed by Woody Allen

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  • Aarón Sánchez

    Aarón Sánchez

    Aaron Sanchez may refer to: Aarón Sánchez (chef) (born 1976), Mexican-American celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball player Aarón Sánchez (footballer) (born 1996), Andorran footballer

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  • Pati Jinich

    Pati Jinich

    Patricia Jinich ( born Patricia Drijanski, March 30, 1972) is a Mexican chef, TV personality, cookbook author, educator, and food writer. She is best known for her James Beard Award-winning and Emmy-nominated public television series Pati's Mexican Table and her James Beard Award-winning PBS primetime docuseries La Frontera with Pati Jinich. Her first cookbook, also titled Pati's Mexican Table, was published in March 2013, her second cookbook, Mexican Today, was published in April 2016, and her third cookbook, Treasures of the Mexican Table, was published in November 2021. Her fourth cookbook, La Frontera, will be published in September 2026. Jinich is the resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, where she has run her "Mexican Table" live culinary program since 2007. She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Talk, CBS This Morning, Live with Kelly and Mark, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and The Splendid Table among other media. Her food writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times. In May 2014, Jinich was invited to cook at the White House for President Barack Obama's Cinco de Mayo dinner. In May 2018, she cooked at the James Beard House in New York City for its Cinco de Mayo dinner.

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  • Claus Henriksen

    Claus Henriksen

    John Arthur Lithgow ( LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades including seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Lithgow has won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for Sweet Smell of Success (2002). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has appeared on Broadway in The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). In the West End, he portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant (2024), for which he won the 2025 Laurence Olivier Best Actor Award. Lithgow starred as Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series playing Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He…

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  • Jesús Sánchez

    Jesús Sánchez

    Jesús Sánchez may refer to: Jesús Sánchez (pitcher) (born 1974), Dominican baseball pitcher Jesús Sánchez (outfielder) (born 1997), Dominican baseball outfielder Jesús Sánchez (boxer), Dominican Republic boxer Jesús Sánchez (fencer), Mexican fencer Jesús Sánchez (volleyball) (born 1968), Spanish former volleyball player Jesús Rivera Sánchez, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education, 2010–2011 Jesús Sánchez (footballer, born 1984), Mexican footballer Jesús Sánchez (footballer, born 1989), Mexican footballer Jesús Sánchez (racewalker) (born 1976), Mexican race walker

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  • Massimo Spigaroli

    Massimo Spigaroli

    Massimo Spigaroli is an Italian chef and custodian of one of the country’s great edible traditions: the cured meats and farmhouse cooking of Antica Corte Pallavicina near Parma. Alongside his brother Luciano, he helped transform a historic estate on the Po River into a living museum of flavor, where culatello di Zibello ages in brick cellars scented by river fog. Spigaroli’s cooking is unapologetically regional—built on pork, pulses, hand-rolled pasta, and the patient work of preserving—yet it attracts gastronomes from around the world who treat the journey as part of the meal. The family’s restaurants and agriturismo rooms extend hospitality across multiple price points, but the philosophical center remains the same: respect the animal, the season, and the cellar clock. Spigaroli is often described as a storyteller in chef’s whites, connecting diners to breeders, farmers, and centuries of rural technique. In an era obsessed with novelty, his career argues that depth can be its own kind of innovation. Pallavicina is not merely a restaurant; it is an argument for keeping craft landscapes alive.

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  • Giancarlo Perbellini

    Giancarlo Perbellini

    Massimo Bottura (born 30 September 1962) is an Italian chef, gastronome and entrepreneur. Massimo Bottura is Chef and owner of Osteria Francescana (located in the historic center of his native Modena), which has earned three Michelin stars and a green Michelin star. The restaurant has been ranked among the top restaurants in the world, including first place in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2016 and 2018. In 2014, the chef won the White Guide Global Gastronomy Award, which honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to gastronomy.

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  • Fulvio Pierangelini

    Fulvio Pierangelini

    Gambero Rosso (Italian for 'Red Prawn') was a restaurant in San Vincenzo, Tuscany, Italy. Its chef was Fulvio Pierangelini. The restaurant was voted 12th best in the world in the 2008 Restaurant Top 50, and was awarded 2 stars by the Michelin Guide. It was closed in November 2008.

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  • Enrico Crippa

    Enrico Crippa

    Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. Born in Concesio, Montini served in the Holy See's Secretariat of State from 1922 to 1954, and along with Domenico Tardini was considered the closest and most influential advisor of Pope Pius XII. In 1954, Pius named Montini Archbishop of Milan, the largest Italian diocese. Montini later became the Secretary of the Italian Bishops' Conference. John XXIII elevated Montini to the College of Cardinals in 1958, and after his death, Montini was, with little to no opposition, elected his successor, taking the name Paul VI. He reconvened the Second Vatican Council, which had been suspended during the interregnum. After its conclusion, Paul VI took charge of the interpretation and implementation of its mandates, finely balancing the conflicting expectations of various Catholic groups. The resulting reforms were among the widest and deepest in the Church's history. Paul VI spoke repeatedly to Marian conventions and Mariological meetings, visited Marian shrines and issued three Marian encyclicals. Following Ambrose of Milan, he named Mary as the Mother of the Church during the Second Vatican Council. In January 1964,…

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  • Poul Andrias Ziska

    Poul Andrias Ziska

    KOKS is a restaurant located in Leynavatn, Faroe Islands. It is 24 km north of Tórshavn, and 23 km east of Vágar Airport. In 2017, it won its first Michelin star, being the first restaurant to do so in the Faroes. They were also named the second-best restaurant in the Danish Kingdom by the White Guide. The restaurant is only open from April to September, serving a 17-course tasting menu to its 30 customers a night overlooking a scenic view over a lake. The restaurant has nine chefs, each of whom is from a different country, and five waiters. One chef, Ziska, was awarded chef talent of the year, given to one chef under 30. In April 2011, Johannes Jensen launched Koks, it started out in the dining room of the Føroyar hotel. It was located in Kirkjubøur, 11 km south of Tórshavn until 2017, but then moved to Leynavatn, an area administered by the National Trust. It was awarded a second Michelin star in February 2019, retained in 2021 and in 2023 in Greenland. Since summer of 2022, KOKS is scheduled for Ilimanaq in Greenland.

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  • Eric Vildgaard

    Eric Vildgaard

    Eric Kragh Vildgaard is a Danish chef and restaurateur whose public story intertwines hardship, reinvention, and extraordinary technical skill. Born in Copenhagen in 1983, he found discipline early in professional kitchens, including formative years at Noma, before channeling his energy into a restaurant that bears his worldview in its very name: Jordnær, “down to earth,” in Gentofte with his wife Tina Kragh Vildgaard. Jordnær’s rise through the Michelin ranks—culminating in three stars—reflected a cuisine that marries Nordic clarity with Japanese precision, always in service of ingredients Vildgaard describes as joyful rather than austere. Journalists have chronicled his path from a turbulent youth to leadership in one of Europe’s most scrutinized dining rooms, a narrative he uses sparingly but honestly when discussing second chances. In the kitchen he is known for relentless standards and an eye for detail that extends from fish curing to the emotional temperature of service. Vildgaard’s career suggests that fine dining can be both uncompromising and humane, rigorous without forgetting why people gather at a table.

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  • Dylan Jones

    Dylan Jones

    Dylan John Jones OBE (born 1960) is an English journalist and author. He served as editor of the UK version of men's fashion and lifestyle magazine GQ from 1999 to 2021. In June 2023 Jones became the new editor-in-chief of the London Evening Standard which had been without a full-time editor since the previous October. Within three months of the daily printed paper ending its life, to be replaced by a weekly printed edition, Jones quit his job along with three other senior executives, signing off his last editorial column on 19 December 2024. He has held senior roles with several other publications, including editor of magazines i-D and Arena, and has contributed weekly columns to newspapers The Independent and The Mail on Sunday. Jones has written multiple books.

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  • Julien Royer

    Julien Royer

    Julien Royer (born 1 September 1982) is a French chef and restaurant owner. He is the Chef-owner of Odette in Singapore and Louise in Hong Kong. in 2019, Odette was awarded the highest distinction of 3 Michelin stars by the Michelin guide. Royer was born in Cantal, Central France to fourth-generation farmers.

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  • Tam Kwok Fung

    Tam Kwok Fung

    Nicholas Tse Ting-fung (born 29 August 1980) is a Hong Kong actor, singer, entrepreneur and TV chef. Tse debuted as a singer in 1996 before shifting his career focus to acting. He is known for starring in the films Metade Fumaca (1999), New Police Story (2004), Bodyguards and Assassins (2009), The Viral Factor (2012), and Raging Fire (2021), as well as the television series The Proud Twins (2005). For his role in The Stool Pigeon (2010), Tse won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, making him the first actor to have won in the three major acting categories, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best New Performer, at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Tse is the founder of Post Production Office, a Hong Kong–based special effects company. The company was acquired by Digital Domain in 2016, with Tse becoming chairman of Digital Domain in Greater China.

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  • May Chow

    May Chow

    May Chow is a Canadian-born Hong Kong/Chinese chef, who runs restaurants in Hong Kong and Thailand. She was named Asia's Best Female Chef in 2017, and has used this as a platform to promote LGBT issues and help women find work in professional kitchens.

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  • Andre Rush

    Andre Rush

    Andre Rush (born September 7, 1974) is an American celebrity chef and military veteran. He worked in the White House as a Chef for four administrations. Rush, a retired Master Sergeant of the U.S. Army, gained additional attention for his large biceps and muscular physique.

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  • Matty Matheson

    Matty Matheson

    Matthew James Matheson (born February 7, 1982) is a Canadian chef and actor. He portrays the handyman Neil Fak on the FX series The Bear. Matheson was the executive chef of Parts & Labour, a restaurant in Toronto, Ontario, which permanently closed on January 1, 2019. Matheson has since started Matty's Patty's Burger Club, a takeout restaurant in Toronto, Ontario, which opened in December 2020. In April 2022, Matheson opened Prime Seafood Palace, which is also in Toronto. Matheson regularly appeared on Vice's show Munchies. He previously hosted Viceland's It's Suppertime! and Dead Set on Life.

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  • Alton Brown

    Alton Brown

    Alton Crawford Brown Jr. (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, voice actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 16 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. A recap series titled Good Eats Reloaded aired on Cooking Channel, and a true sequel series, Good Eats: The Return, ran from 2019 to 2021 on Food Network.

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  • Graham Elliot

    Graham Elliot

    Graham Elliot Bowles (born January 4, 1977) is an American chef, restaurateur, and reality television personality. He first gained recognition in the restaurant business as a three-time nominee for the James Beard Award. In 2004, he was named to Food & Wine's "Best New Chefs" list and became the youngest chef in the United States to receive four stars from a major publication (Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times). Among television viewers, he gained fame as a contestant on the programs Iron Chef and Top Chef Masters, and as a judge on the first six seasons of the American MasterChef and its spinoff, MasterChef Junior.

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  • Richard Blais

    Richard Blais

    Richard Blais is an American chef, television personality, restaurateur, and author. He appeared on the reality show cooking show Top Chef, and is known for his take on classic American cuisine. Blais was the runner-up for the fourth season of Top Chef and returned several seasons later to win Top Chef: All-Stars.

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  • Bryan Voltaggio

    Bryan Voltaggio

    Bryan Voltaggio (born 1976) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and author. He is a Top Chef television series alum; and he was a semi-finalist for the James Beard award. His brother is celebrity chef Michael Voltaggio. He resides in Frederick, Maryland and is known for Mid-Atlantic cuisine.

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  • Carla Hall

    Carla Hall

    Carla Hall (born May 12, 1964) is an American chef, television personality, and former model. She appeared in the fifth and eighth seasons of Top Chef, Bravo's cooking competition show. She was a co-host on The Chew, a one-hour talk show centered on food from all angles, which premiered on ABC in September 2011.

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  • Tiffany Derry

    Tiffany Derry

    Tiffany Derry (born December 26, 1982) is an American celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is a current judge on Master Chef, a Top Chef television series alumna and is known for her appearances on Cutthroat Kitchen and Hungry Investors (Spike TV). She is based in Dallas, Texas.

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  • Nina Compton

    Nina Compton

    Nina Compton is a Saint Lucian-American chef and restaurateur in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2018 she won the James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef: South.

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  • JJ Johnson

    JJ Johnson

    J. J. Johnson (January 22, 1924 – February 4, 2001), born James Louis Johnson and also known as Jay Jay Johnson, was an American jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. Johnson was one of the earliest trombonists to embrace bebop.

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  • Pierre Thiam

    Pierre Thiam

    Pierre Thiam is a Senegalese chef, author, and social activist. Thiam is best known for bringing West African cuisine to the world. Based in California, Thiam is the founder of Pierre Thiam Group, which owns Teranga restaurants in New York City and Yolélé Foods. Yolélé, founded in 2017, is a food company centered on fonio, an ancient African super-grain. In addition, since 2015, Thiam has served as Executive Chef of the award-winning restaurant Nok by Alara in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Signature Chef of the Pullman Hotel in Dakar, Senegal. Thiam has authored several cookbooks, and in June 2024, he was inducted into the Cookbook Hall of Fame by the James Beard Foundation.

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  • Mory Sacko

    Mory Sacko

    Mory Sacko (born 24 September 1992) is a French chef.

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  • Dieuveil Malonga

    Dieuveil Malonga

    Dieuveil Malonga (born November 1991) is a chef and entrepreneur from Congo-Brazzaville. He specializes in Afro fusion cuisine, a culinary art he describes as, "a subtle blend of tradition and modernity". A finalist of the Basque Culinary World Prize in 2018 and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, Malonga started his career at three different Michelin starred restaurants in Germany—Schote, Life, and Aqua. In 2016, he launched Chefs in Africa, a digital professional network. Malonga has cooked for Cartier, fashion designers Rick Owens and Gareth Pugh, and American rappers ASAP Rocky and Yasiin Bey.

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  • Selassie Atadika

    Selassie Atadika

    Selassie Atadika is a Ghanaian chef and thinker whose work reframes West African cuisine as both ancient and urgently contemporary. After years abroad in humanitarian response and related fields, she returned to the continent with a question: what does fine dining look like when it begins from African pantry logic rather than borrowed templates? Her project Midunu—often experienced as nomadic pop-ups and curated tastings—centers indigenous grains, ferments, spices, and techniques that rarely receive luxury-restaurant spotlight. Atadika’s menus read like essays on biodiversity and cultural memory, insisting that “New African Cuisine” is not fusion for tourists but a disciplined rebuilding of narrative authority. She speaks often about equity for producers and cooks, connecting plate politics to supply chains and education. On the global stage she has been recognized among leaders shaping where African gastronomy travels next, not by mimicking Paris or Tokyo but by trusting local genius. Atadika’s biography is still being written meal by meal, yet her influence is already visible in a younger cohort of chefs who refuse to apologize for their own flavors.

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  • André Soltner

    André Soltner

    André Soltner (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.dʁe sɔlt.nɛʁ]; 20 November 1932 – 18 January 2025) was a French-American chef and author, based for decades at New York City's Lutèce, from its opening in 1961 as chef, later as partner and from 1973 as owner until 1994. He ran the restaurant together with his wife, Simone. He was internationally recognized, regarded as one of America's first superstar chefs, and the restaurant as America's Best French Restaurant. Soltner later served as Dean of Classic Studies at the French Culinary Institute.

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  • Charlie Palmer

    Charlie Palmer

    Charles Palmer may refer to: Charles Palmer (1777–1851), Member of Parliament for Bath Sir Charles Palmer, 1st Baronet (1822–1907), English shipbuilder, businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament, 1874–1907 Sir Charles Palmer, 2nd Baronet (1771–1827) Charles Palmer (banker), Governor of the Bank of England, 1754–1756 Charles Palmer (cricketer) (1919–2005), English cricketer and cricket administrator Charles Palmer (director) (born 1965), British television director Charles Palmer (engineer) (1847–1940), survivor of the siege of Lucknow Charlie Palmer (footballer) (born 1963), retired professional footballer in England Charles Palmer (journalist) (1869–1920), British Member of Parliament for The Wrekin, 1920 Charles Palmer (judoka) (1930–2001), British judoka Charles Palmer (sport shooter) (1869–?), British Olympic sport shooter Charles D. Palmer (1902–1999), U.S. Army general Charles Forrest Palmer (1892–1973), Atlanta real estate developer, head of housing authority and chamber of commerce Charles Fyshe Palmer, British Member of Parliament for Reading Charles John Palmer (1805–1882), English historian Charles M. Palmer (1856–1949), American Midwest newspaper broker Charlie Palmer (chef), American chef

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  • Michael Cimarusti

    Michael Cimarusti

    Michael Cimarusti is a celebrated American chef who owns two Michelin-rated restaurants - Michelin-starred Providence restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and Connie and Ted's his more casual New England–style seafood restaurant in West Hollywood, California. He won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: West in 2019.

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  • Josiah Citrin

    Josiah Citrin

    Citrin is a Michelin-starred French restaurant in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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  • Ludo Lefebvre

    Ludo Lefebvre

    Ludovic Lefebvre (French pronunciation: [lydo ləfɛvʁ]; born 1971) is a French chef and restaurateur. He has owned and operated several restaurants in Los Angeles.

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  • Brooke Williamson

    Brooke Williamson

    Brooke Williamson is an American chef and restaurateur. She won season 14 of the US television reality cooking competition series Top Chef and has owned several Los Angeles-area restaurants.

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  • Antonia Lofaso

    Antonia Lofaso

    Antonia Marie Lofaso (born November 23, 1976) is an American celebrity chef and restaurateur. She has appeared on the reality television shows Top Chef, Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen and Restaurant Startup, among others. Lofaso owns the restaurants Black Market Liquor Bar, Scopa Italian Roots, and DAMA in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Jon Shook

    Jon Shook

    Courtney "Coco" Storer (b. c. 1984) is an American chef and co-executive producer and culinary producer for the American TV show The Bear. According to Food & Wine magazine, "chocolate cake, sandwiches, and cannolis are an essential part of the show's storytelling."

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  • Vinny Dotolo

    Vinny Dotolo

    Selena + Chef is an American television cooking show hosted by Selena Gomez that premiered on HBO Max on August 13, 2020. The first season consists of 10 episodes. In August 2020, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on November 19, 2020, and continues into early 2021. In April 2021, the series was renewed for a third season which was released on October 28, 2021. In November 2021, the series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on August 18, 2022. On October 2, 2023, it was announced that Gomez would return for a series of holiday specials entitled Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays that premiered on November 30, 2023 on Food Network.

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  • Wolfgat Kobus van der Merwe

    Wolfgat Kobus van der Merwe

    Kobus van der Merwe is a South African chef who turned a modest cottage restaurant on the Western Cape into a global symbol of place-based cooking. Raised in the Kalahari and rooted later in the fishing village of Paternoster, van der Merwe opened Wolfgat in 2016 in a historic building above the shoreline, naming it for a nearby sea cave. With little interest in imported luxury, he built tasting menus from seaweed, veld plants, local fish, and the patient work of foraging along a starkly beautiful coast. Wolfgat’s team—often described as collaborative and non-hierarchical—blurs lines between kitchen, service, and landscape in ways that feel ethical as much as aesthetic. In 2019 the restaurant won the inaugural World Restaurant Awards’ Restaurant of the Year prize in Paris, a milestone that introduced van der Merwe’s quiet radicalism to diners who had never visited South Africa. He is frequently cast as a philosopher-chef, skeptical of hype yet fluent in the poetry of restraint. His story is proof that “world-class” can mean hyperlocal, seasonal, and unmistakably tied to one stretch of coast.

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  • Kirk Westaway

    Kirk Westaway

    Top Chef: World All-Stars is the twentieth season of the American reality television series Top Chef. Initial details about the season were released by Bravo and NBCUniversal on August 1, 2022, with filming beginning the same month. The majority of the competition was shot in London, with the season finale set in Paris, marking the first time the show had been filmed entirely abroad. The cast included past contestants from several international editions of Top Chef. Throughout the season, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons were joined by judges from the international editions, in addition to global culinary experts. This is the last season to feature Lakshmi as host. The winner received US$250,000. World All-Stars premiered on March 9, 2023, and concluded on June 8, 2023. In the season finale, Top Chef: Houston winner Buddha Lo was declared the victor over Top Chef: Kentucky runner-up Sara Bradley and Top Chef México Season 2 winner Gabri Rodriguez, becoming the series' first two-time champion. Top Chef: California runner-up Amar Santana was voted Fan Favorite.

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  • Paul Pairet

    Paul Pairet

    Paul Pairet (born 29 June 1964) is a French chef. He is the founder-partner and chef de cuisine of restaurants Mr & Mrs Bund, Ultraviolet, and cafe Polux, all located in Shanghai, China. His cuisine is often described as avant-garde.

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  • Natsuko Shoji

    Natsuko Shoji

    Natsuko Shoji is a Japanese pastry chef and restaurateur who redefined what a chef’s table could feel like in Tokyo’s dining scene. After training in savory kitchens—including time in the universe of Florilège—she turned toward a more intimate format, ete, where dessert logic leads the meal rather than closing it. Shoji became internationally famous for jewel-like creations that treat fruit, especially strawberries, with the seriousness other chefs reserve for wagyu or uni. Her work borrows from fashion and design as much as from classical pâtisserie: precise, playful, and unmistakably modern. Critics note the tension between sweetness and acidity in her menus, and the way she uses small courses to tell a coherent story across an evening. Awards and lists celebrating Asia’s best pastry talent helped export her reputation, yet the core experience remains personal—a handful of seats, meticulous timing, and a chef who plates with calm authority. Shoji’s career argues that pastry can be a primary cuisine, not a supporting act, when vision and technique align.

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  • Manuel Berganza

    Manuel Berganza

    Andanada was a Spanish restaurant located at 141 West 69th Street (between Broadway and Columbus) on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Opening in 2012 under chef Manuel Berganza, it earned one Michelin star in 2014, which it maintained until its reported closure in 2017. Andanada served contemporary Spanish cuisine. Its menu featured a selection of tapas, alongside other dishes like shellfish paella and arroz con leche. The restaurant's name, Andanada, refers to the highest seating area in the bullfighting arena. In 2014, Andanada was awarded a Michelin Star in the 2015 Michelin Guide to New York City. It maintained its star rating for the 2016 and 2017 editions of the guide.

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  • Richard Sandoval

    Richard Sandoval

    Richard Sandoval (October 18, 1960 – July 21, 2024) was an American professional boxer and Lineal and WBA Bantamweight Champion. Sandoval was a silver medalist at the 1979 Pan American Games in Puerto Rico and was a U.S. Olympian during his amateur career. He was also the younger brother of title contender Alberto Sandoval.

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  • Gastón Acurio

    Gastón Acurio

    Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (born October 30, 1967) is a Peruvian chef and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine. He owns several restaurants in various countries, and is the author of several books. In Peru, he is the host of a television program and contributes to culinary magazines. He started Pasquale Hnos., a Peruvian sangucheria or fast-food restaurant focused on Peruvian sandwiches; it did not fulfill his vision and he left the project. In 2018 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. According to a study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) about innovation in Peruvian cuisine (2022), Acurio's influence on the cuisine of Peru and Latin America —where Europe has traditionally been regarded as a model of haute cuisine— has been very significant. More than anyone else, he renewed Peruvian cuisine and thus enabled a remarkable generation of Peruvian chefs. Other innovative chefs from Peru, such as Virgilio Martínez, Micha Tsumura, Pedro Schiaffino, Toshi Matsufuji and Hector Solís, have acknowledged a debt to him and consider him their community builder and leader. In 2019, the IDB chose him to teach the Enrique V. Iglesias Chair on Culture and Development. On that occasion, Trinidad Zaldívar, head of the IDB's Creativity and Culture Unit, said at its headquarters in Washington, DC: "This was a recognition to Gastón for his work promoting the progress of Latin America and the Caribbean through gastronomy. And we want it to also be an inspiration for the thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators in the region, who are committed to…

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  • Mitsuharu Tsumura

    Mitsuharu Tsumura

    Maido is a fusion restaurant opened in October 2009 in Miraflores, Lima, Peru. It is owned and headed by chef Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura. Maido's dishes are rooted in Nikkei cuisine, which blends Peruvian and Japanese cuisines. Maido was ranked first in the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2025.

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  • Pedro Miguel Schiaffino

    Pedro Miguel Schiaffino

    Pedro Miguel Schiaffino is a Peruvian chef who has worked to highlight the foods of the Amazon jungle and Amazonian cuisine. Schiaffino's restaurant in Lima, Peru is called Malabar. He is also executive chef aboard the M/V Aqua. Schiaffino is known as the "jungle chef" and has been compared to René Redzepi. Schiaffino graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, in 1997 and did Masters work at the Italian Culinary Institute. While in Italy he at Dal Pescatore under chef Nadia Santini and with Piero Bertinotti at Ristorante Pinocchio. Ingredients he uses include kushuru (Andean caviar), algae, aguaje (a slightly fermented palm fruit), giant snails, sacha culantro (a type of wild coriander), turmeric, achiote, guinea pig and Andean corn beer. He also uses quinoa and seasonings including cedrón, toronjil, muña, sachatomate, and aguaymanto. His menu offerings have included dishes such as: Tuna brulé with cocona-lime juice and tobiko wild caigua with scallops, Andean seaweed, and maca root (known as Andean Viagra) Fish ceviche with tumbo Paiche with masato and black tapioca Arroz con pato (Spanish rice with duck) Copoazu and green melon Lúcuma and deep fried "truffles"

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  • Helena Rizzo

    Helena Rizzo

    Helena Rizzo Bins (December 6, 1978) is a Brazilian chef and restaurateur. She runs the restaurant Maní in São Paulo. Rizzo was elected Best Female Chef of the Year by Restaurant Magazine in 2014.

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  • Roberta Sudbrack

    Roberta Sudbrack

    Roberta Sudbrack is a Brazilian chef whose cooking helped Rio de Janeiro speak the language of contemporary fine dining without surrendering its own appetite for joy. Trained in classical technique but rooted in Brazil’s markets, beaches, and bar culture, she became known for plates that balance precision with the bright, communal energy of her city. Her work at Olympe and related projects mapped a path between European discipline and tropical abundance, showing how local fish, fruit, and roots could carry a tasting menu without cosplaying another country’s clichés. Sudbrack’s career unfolded alongside Brazil’s uneven rise on global gastronomy maps; she is often cited as proof that the scene’s strength lies in personality as much as product. Mentorship and advocacy for women in professional kitchens thread through her public life, where she speaks frankly about the costs and rewards of leadership. Sudbrack’s menus read as love letters to Rio—sometimes elegant, sometimes provocative, always aware that flavor is political. Her influence persists in chefs who refuse to choose between technique and soul.

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  • Alexandre Mazzia

    Alexandre Mazzia

    Top Chef: World All-Stars is the twentieth season of the American reality television series Top Chef. Initial details about the season were released by Bravo and NBCUniversal on August 1, 2022, with filming beginning the same month. The majority of the competition was shot in London, with the season finale set in Paris, marking the first time the show had been filmed entirely abroad. The cast included past contestants from several international editions of Top Chef. Throughout the season, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons were joined by judges from the international editions, in addition to global culinary experts. This is the last season to feature Lakshmi as host. The winner received US$250,000. World All-Stars premiered on March 9, 2023, and concluded on June 8, 2023. In the season finale, Top Chef: Houston winner Buddha Lo was declared the victor over Top Chef: Kentucky runner-up Sara Bradley and Top Chef México Season 2 winner Gabri Rodriguez, becoming the series' first two-time champion. Top Chef: California runner-up Amar Santana was voted Fan Favorite.

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  • Aitor Arregi

    Aitor Arregi

    Aitor Arregi Arrieta (born 19 May 1990) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a centre-back.

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  • Diego Guerrero

    Diego Guerrero

    Diego Guerrero (born 26 June 1986) is a Venezuelan international footballer who plays for Aragua FC, as a defensive midfielder.

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  • Sergio Herman

    Sergio Herman

    A list of Dutch chefs. Chefs who have held or hold Michelin starred restaurants are marked with a star.

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  • Jonnie Boer

    Jonnie Boer

    Jonnie Boer (9 January 1965 – 23 April 2025) was a Dutch Michelin star winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant De Librije in Zwolle, Netherlands.

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  • Jannis Brevet

    Jannis Brevet

    Inter Scaldes is a restaurant located in Kruiningen in the Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that is awarded one Michelin stars from 1977 to 1983, two stars from 1984 to 2017 and three stars as of 2018 GaultMillau awarded them 19.50 points (out of 20). Restaurant Inter Scaldes earned its second star in 1984 under the leadership of head chef Maartje Boudeling. In 2001 the present head chef Jannis Brevet (ex-Helianthushof) took over. In 2018 Inter Scaldes earned its third star, under chef Jannis Brevet Inter Scaldes (Latin for "Between the Scheldt") is a member of Les Patrons Cuisiniers and Tradition Qualité.

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  • Sven Elverfeld

    Sven Elverfeld

    Sven Elverfeld is a German chef whose long stewardship of Aqua at The Ritz-Carlton, Wolfsburg, made him one of the country’s defining fine-dining figures. In a city synonymous with industry, Elverfeld built a dining room where luxury felt precise rather than loud, pairing classical French and modern European technique with an increasingly personal palette. Aqua earned three Michelin stars under his leadership, a rare achievement for a hotel restaurant that had to convince both travelers and locals that Wolfsburg could anchor world-class gastronomy. Elverfeld’s menus often wove regional ingredients through an international lens, reflecting his belief that a hotel kitchen should be cosmopolitan yet grounded. Colleagues describe him as meticulous about training and service choreography, understanding that stars depend on teams, not solo heroics. His career spans decades of shifting tastes—from foam-era modernism to quieter, more ingredient-forward cooking—yet the constant is rigor. Elverfeld’s name remains shorthand for a certain German excellence: disciplined, hospitable, and unwilling to cut corners.

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  • Christian Jürgens

    Christian Jürgens

    Christian Wolfgang Lindner (German: [ˈkʁɪsti̯an ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈlɪndnɐ] ; born 7 January 1979) is a German retired politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who was the Federal Minister of Finance from 2021 until his dismissal in 2024 during a government crisis. Serving from 2013 to 2025, Lindner was the longest-serving party-leader of the FDP and a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) for North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2025, having previously held a seat from 2009 until 2012. Lindner resigned as party leader and announced his retirement from active politics after the FDP dropped out of parliament as a result of the 2025 federal election. His decision to withdraw from the Scholz cabinet is often considered the main catalyst for the party's inability to enter the Bundestag in the election.

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  • Toni Keller

    Toni Keller

    Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for having brought French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.

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  • Jacob Jan Boerma

    Jacob Jan Boerma

    De Leest (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈleːst]) was a fine dining restaurant located in Vaassen in the Netherlands. The restaurant was awarded one Michelin star in the period 2003–2006, two Michelin stars in the period 2007–2013, and three Michelin stars since 2014 until it was closed on 27 December 2019. On 7 October 2019 the restaurant announced that it will close down "later this year". The restaurant was closed on 27 December 2019. De Leest was a member of Les Patrons Cuisiniers.

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  • Begoña Rodrigo

    Begoña Rodrigo

    Top Chef: World All-Stars is the twentieth season of the American reality television series Top Chef. Initial details about the season were released by Bravo and NBCUniversal on August 1, 2022, with filming beginning the same month. The majority of the competition was shot in London, with the season finale set in Paris, marking the first time the show had been filmed entirely abroad. The cast included past contestants from several international editions of Top Chef. Throughout the season, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons were joined by judges from the international editions, in addition to global culinary experts. This is the last season to feature Lakshmi as host. The winner received US$250,000. World All-Stars premiered on March 9, 2023, and concluded on June 8, 2023. In the season finale, Top Chef: Houston winner Buddha Lo was declared the victor over Top Chef: Kentucky runner-up Sara Bradley and Top Chef México Season 2 winner Gabri Rodriguez, becoming the series' first two-time champion. Top Chef: California runner-up Amar Santana was voted Fan Favorite.

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  • Rene Frank

    Rene Frank

    René Redzepi is a Danish chef and co-founder of Noma, a former three-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen that was ranked five times as the Best Restaurant in the World. In January 2023, Redzepi announced that Noma would move away from traditional restaurant service; the restaurant's final regular service took place in Kyoto, Japan, in December 2024. Redzepi is noted for his efforts to reinvent and refine New Nordic cuisine. In 2024, the TV series Omnivore, which Redzepi created and in which he starred, was released on Apple TV+. A number of former staff members have accused Redzepi of physical and emotional abuse, including battery with his fists and attacking subordinates with kitchen implements. The assaults were often followed by threats to destroy these employees' chances of future employment if they filed complaints against him. Redzepi admitted to undergoing long-term psychotherapy regarding his abusive behavior.

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  • Carmen Rueda Hernandez

    Carmen Rueda Hernandez

    José María Coronado García (born 14 August 1957) is a Spanish film and television actor and former model. His performances playing (often corrupt and/or morally dubious) law enforcement officer roles have brought him some of the greatest successes of his career. He has received numerous accolades, including two Goya Awards, an Actors and Actresses Union Award, and a Platino Award.

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  • Ebru Baybara Demir

    Ebru Baybara Demir

    Ebru Demir (née: Baybara; born 1976) is a Turkish social entrepreneur and chef. She has involved in many projects targeting women and biodiversity.

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