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Panama hosts the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Latin America final
Fifteen cooks from across the region, including four from Colombia, two from Peru and one from Chile, compete in Panama City from September 27 for a place in Milan's 2027 grand finale.
The Taste season 15 has its coaches cook first
Germany's blind-tasting show returns October 21 with an anniversary twist: its four coaches cook the season 15 premiere themselves, turning street food into contest bites.
Ansolence opens with Tokyo's one-star Manowa chef
Chef Lin Hongson leaves the one-star kitchen at Restaurant Manowa to open his own 14-seat address in Tokyo's Kami-Osaki district this September.
Markus Stöckle opens Marküs in a 700-year-old Zurich house
The chef behind ROSI returns with a tasting menu built on fermentation and ETH Zurich research, inside a building where Goethe once stayed.
Craft Guild names its 2026 Graduate Award winners
Winners span the Royal Household, the RAF, Harrods and the House of Commons, in an award that has tracked young UK chefs' careers since 2002.
Daniel Humm opens Humm in Manhattan's West Village
After 25 years at Eleven Madison Park, Humm is opening a wood-fired, weeknight-friendly restaurant of his own on Hudson Street in the West Village.
Michael Wignall cookbook collects 70 dishes from The Angel
The Yorkshire Dales chef's 420-page debut, priced at £65, separates plating photography from working methods in a format aimed at fellow cooks.
Open Restaurant Group Buys Wreck Bistro From Gary Usher
Open Restaurant Group has bought Wreck Bistro in Liverpool from Gary Usher, its second deal with the Elite Bistros founder in two years, ahead of his final service in October.
The Cumberland appoints two new head chefs in London
Stefano Tortelli takes over Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen and Matthew Hurry steps in as executive head chef, as the Marble Arch hotel reshuffles its kitchens less than a year after opening.
Mark Sargeant returns to cooking at a Surrey pub
The former Gordon Ramsay chef takes over The Victoria in Oxshott for four days in September, the first stop in a four-month residency at the Surrey gastropub.
First CHEF:IN Awards honour German women chefs on 14 September
Only around 4% of Germany's starred chefs are women. The inaugural ceremony in Hamburg names nominees in seven categories, from head chef to sommelière.
Romy Gill takes over The Pem in London this autumn
The chef succeeds Sally Abé at the Conrad London St James with a menu built around the regional cooking of Punjab, Bengal, Kerala and Rajasthan.
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