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Thomas Straker opens Straker's in New York's Soho
The British chef's first restaurant outside London takes over the former Lucky Strike site on Grand Street, four years after his Notting Hill debut.
La Rei Natura joins Les Grandes Tables du Monde
Michelangelo Mammoliti's restaurant in the Langhe enters the fine-dining association founded in Paris in 1954, which now counts 208 member houses in 29 countries.
Ein Prosit Udine brings Lima, Buenos Aires and Paris to Friuli
The 27th edition runs until Sunday with more than 90 chefs and dinners priced from €90 to €250. Three recent World's 50 Best winners are on the bill, mostly in shared kitchens.
Yannick Alléno enters the Musée Grévin, tying his apron
The chef with 18 Michelin stars now has a wax double on boulevard Montmartre. It took six months, a hand cast and hair set strand by strand. The star count behind it depends on who is counting.
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.
Nasser Kheir becomes head chef at Burnham Beeches
The Dorchester's former head banqueting chef takes over all food and drink at the Georgian hotel in Buckinghamshire, a year before its 300th anniversary.
Marvin Böhm to run the kitchen at Hamburg's Alsterpavillon
The former Aqua sous chef, whose own restaurant Buoy closed in July after about three months, takes charge of some 30 cooks at the rebuilt pavilion on the Jungfernstieg. No opening date has been published.
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.
Kevin Fehling joins seven MS Europa cruises in 2027
The chef of Hamburg's three-star The Table will sail on seven Hapag-Lloyd Cruises itineraries next year, one fewer than in 2026. The company has not said on which days he will be in the dining room.
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