Originally a Kansas native, Miami’s Chef Brad Kilgore has a CV packed with some impressive fine dining stints. Kilgore was named a finalist in the 2018 James Beard Award Best Chef: South category. His critically acclaimed restaurant Alter was named semifinalist for the prestigious James Beard award Best New Restaurant in its first year of opening and has been named a Diners Discovery by The World’s 50 Best list…
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Chef Alessandro Frau, born and raised in Sardinia, was the Winner of Iron Chef Thailand in November 2013.
His restaurant Acqua is located in beautiful Phuket and has been awarded many times over, including by Wine Spectator with the Award of Excellence for one of the Best Wine Lists in the world. But how does an Italian Chef end up cooking traditional foods from his childhood in a country so different from his own…? -
Chef Duangporn (Bo) Songvisava has always had a passion and desire to create exceptional Thai food. After completing her Masters in Gastronomy in Adelaide, she first joined the team at Cy’an in the Metropolitan hotel Bangkok. From there she moved to London to work under David Thompson at his highly acclaimed restaurant Nahm, and it was here she met her Australian-born husband and current business partner Dylan Jones. Together they solidified their plan to open a truly remarkable Thai restaurant in her mother country, called Bo.Lan…
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Martin Klein is the Executive Chef at Ikarus Restaurant at Hangar-7, a unique restaurant concept in Salzburg, Austria starring new Guest Chefs from all over the world every month. The native-born Alsatian spent his childhood in Alsace and received his training at the School of Hotel Management in Strasbourg before quickly rising through the ranks of some of the best restaurants in Germany…
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When clients request specialty items, you make it happen. When a client requests specialty items from a place you’ve been dying to go see for yourself, you make it happen in .2 seconds. Enter: Txogitxu. One of the world’s premier suppliers of mature meat, dubbed by many as “the best meat in the world”. We had the absolute pleasure of spending a day with Txogitxu’s butcher-owner-legend Imanol Jaca, in his native San Sebastián, Spain. And boy, what a day it was…
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Portuguese chef José Avillez’ main focus is to promote Portuguese gastronomy and to contribute to making Portugal a top gastronomic destination. The result? One impressive career that boasts multiple restaurants, multiple Michelin Stars, the number 75 spot on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for his world-renowned restaurant Belcanto, and a long lineup of different projects including TV-shows, books and signature wines …