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Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2026: 13 cooks win the title in Lille
Forty-two finalists had five hours for red mullet, mallard and a Roquefort-stuffed pear. Alain Ducasse's jury passed thirteen, two of them women. More than 400 had entered.
Jaume Subirós wins Spain's lifetime National Gastronomy Award
The Real Academia de Gastronomía gives its 2026 "Toda una Vida" prize to the man who entered the Motel Empordà in Figueres as a bellboy in 1961 and has run it since 1979.
Elizio Masson heads to Best Sommelier of the World in Lisbon
The head sommelier of Hof van Cleve won the Belgian title in Brussels in October 2025. The world contest opens on 11 October, with the final five days later at the Coliseu dos Recreios.
Dominik Hartmann is first vegetarian GaultMillau chef of the year
The Swiss guide gives its 2027 title to the 34-year-old chef of Magdalena in Rickenbach, a village restaurant with 18 points and two Michelin stars that stopped serving meat and fish in 2022.
Best tortilla in Spain title goes to La Teulada in Elche
Celia Clara Correia won the 19th Spanish tortilla de patatas championship at Alicante Gastronómica by one vote, ahead of the 2025 champion from Madrid, who had beaten her a year earlier.
Giuseppe Arno, the Pramac chef feeding a MotoGP paddock
A French motorsport weekly profiles the Italian who runs Pramac Racing's travelling kitchen: about ten staff, up to 250 covers a day and a past in Formula 2 and rallying.
Banchet Awards 2027: Chicago names its chef of the year finalists
Jenner Tomaska, Zachary Engel, Zubair Mohajir and the John's Food & Wine pair compete for the top chef prize at the 25th edition, decided on 31 January.
Silvia Bernardocchi, wife of Giancarlo Perbellini, dies at 57
She managed the finances of the Perbellini restaurant group in Verona and was vice president of a Padua foundation for bile duct cancer research, which has now opened a fund in her name.
World Gourmet Festival Bangkok opens with Julien Royer
Julien Royer, Álvaro Clavijo and Georgiana Viou lead six days of collaborative dinners at the Anantara Siam, where the headline chefs' solo nights are already sold out.
Patatas bravas contest crowns Valderrama chef Mauro Barreiro
Eighteen chefs cooked in the seventh Una de Bravas final in Palencia. The Sotogrande golf-club chef takes €1,500, and his winning dish moves to a Gibraltar hotel in November.
Benoît Castel, world's best pastry chef, opens in Paris
Weeks after winning the UIBC's top pastry title in Singapore, the Breton chef opens his fourth Paris address, splitting the day between coffee, lunch and pastry.
Netflix renews Chef's Table for two new seasons
Chef's Table: Icons and Chef's Table: Desserts will each run four episodes, with creator David Gelb directing every one himself for the first time.
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