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Chef Vladimir Mukhin is the creative genius behind Russia’s most famed and arguably most famous restaurant White Rabbit in Moscow. He’s part of a new wave of young Russian chefs who are quickly climbing their way up the most prestigious lists of the world, Vladimir leading them all. As a fifth generation chef the art of cooking simply runs in his blood, and with countless awards already under his belt it leaves no doubt this chef was born to be in the kitchen…

In 2013 his restaurant Atelier Amaro was awarded a Michelin Star, the first ever in the history of Poland. Chef Amaro’s unique style of cooking and his pioneering vision on contemporary Polish cuisine has won him international recognition and many prestigious awards. He is the author of bestselling cookbooks ‘Polish Cuisine of XXI Century’ – winner of the prestigious Prix de la Literature Gastronomique award in Paris – and ‘Nature of Polish Cuisine’. He is also the Head Judge of the widely popular TV-show Top Chef Poland and the founder of the Forgotten Fields Foundation, an organization dedicated to reviving forgotten ingredients and recipes.

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…

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… 

Chef Jorge Vallejo and his wife Alejandra Flores are the power couple behind Mexico City’s incredibly successful restaurant Quintonil, the current number 11 on the World’s 50 Best list. Their restaurant serves contemporary Mexican cooking and proudly advocates the use of products from the nation’s incredibly rich food heritage. The restaurant made its debut on the World’s 50 Best Restaurant list at number 35 in 2015 and jumped to 12th place in 2016, making it the list’s highest-ranking Mexican restaurant to date…

Growing up in Austria as the son of a Greek father and an Austrian mother, Chef Konstantin Filippou almost had no choice but to be utterly inspired by two such wonderfully different cultures. He credits this multicultural upbringing for creating the unique approach to food that earned him a second Michelin Star for Restaurant Konstantin Filippou earlier this year…

From an unlikely beginning on the streets of Berlin to being number 37 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. Chef Tim Raue climbed the culinary ladder of Germany’s top kitchens in record speed and is living proof that a past does not have to define one’s future…

Chef Luca Piscazzi started his impressive career in a small Italian restaurant in London and worked his way up to holding key positions in some of the world’s finest restaurants. From three-star La Pergola in Rome, to Mandarin Oriental’s two-star Amber in Hong Kong and the Four Seasons’ Mio in Beijing, to becoming Chef Anne-Sophie Pic’s right-hand man…

Sometimes you stumble upon a chef whose work just takes your breath away. Chef Maya Okada Erickson is one of those chefs. Currently the Pastry Chef at Langbaan in Portland, OR, Chef Maya has re-found her voice after losing part of it in the high-stress kitchen of one of San Francisco’s most acclaimed restaurants, Lazy Bear…