gastronomia

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.

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…

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… 

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 …

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…

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…

Juan Manuel Barrientos Valencia – known in the gastronomic world as Juanma – is a Colombian chef, entrepreneur, and most importantly, an advocate of peace…

Meet Chef Mateu Casañas, one of the three creatives behind the internationally recognized, 
two Michelin starred restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona. Mateu and his business partners Chef Oriol Castro and Chef Eduard Xatruch met over sixteen years ago when they all three worked in the kitchen of world renowned restaurant elBulli…