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Benjamin Den Bosch hires Bart van Hemert from starred Alma
Sommelier Chiel Seuren's wine restaurant on the Kerkstraat hands its kitchen to the chef de cuisine of Wouter van Laarhoven's Michelin-starred Alma in Oisterwijk.
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.
Paul Bocuse centenary brings 350 diners to a Roman temple
Patrick Henriroux and Philippe Girardon led 30 chefs and 60 students in a €95 lunch that sold out in two days, in the town where Bocuse learned under Fernand Point.
IGNIV Bangkok names Dominik Falk as its new head chef
The 30-year-old Swiss cook leaves the sous-chef post at Andreas Caminada's three-star Schloss Schauenstein for his first head-chef job, at a one-star restaurant opened in 2020.
Michaël Arnoult named Chef of the Year at Le Chef's 40th
The three-star chef of Les Morainières in Savoie was elected by his peers in Paris. Alain Passard, Maxence Barbot and Olivier Bikao were also honoured at the Trophées Le Chef.
Simon Rogan says UK expansion is off and looks abroad
The chef behind three-starred L'Enclume says margins are too thin to build in Britain, and points to the new visitor levy as the latest cost on the pile.
Sueca paella contest crowns a Mexican chef from Tlaxcala
José Carlos Ruiz Zamora of Burguettos, in Apizaco, beat 39 cooks from 14 countries at the 65th Concurs Internacional de Paella Valenciana, cooking the canonical recipe over wood.
Michelin-starred Korean chef opens Paris restaurant
Mingoo Kang, the only three-Michelin-star chef in South Korea, brings fermented jang sauces and a makgeolli bar to a landmark Paris hotel dining room designed by Hugo Toro.
Gianluca Gorini's first book, Cucina Radicale, is out
The one-star chef from San Piero in Bagno wrote it with Eugenio Signoroni: 256 pages on his mentors, his Apennine roots and his method, and not a recipe collection.
Adam Nevin reopens Glovers Alley in Dublin
The Michelin-starred dining room at The Fitzwilliam Hotel returned on September 9 under a chef who started as a 15-year-old kitchen porter in Maynooth.
Leon Mazairac leaves Karel 5 to take over De Hoefslag
The chef who won Karel 5 its Michelin star in 2023 will run De Hoefslag with Zara Kooke from November, splitting the historic house into a brasserie and a gastronomic restaurant.
Brendan Pratt opens Wayfinder's dining room in Margaret River
The former Vasse Felix head chef is back in a winery kitchen, cooking lunch from a one-acre organic market garden beside an off-grid winery built into an old dam.
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