When chef Elias Taddesse pivoted from working at high-end French restaurants in New York City to exploring Ethiopian flavors in his own kitchen, he knew he had to open his first shop in the nation’s capital. “What’s a better place to do it than D.C., with the biggest Ethiopian population next to Ethiopia,” he explained….
Chef and Joon owner Chris Morgan has been a mentee of legendary chef and cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij since 2013 and created Joon’s Persian and Middle Eastern menu with her. Now he’s serving up whole fish, slow-cooked meats, and kabobs that play with traditional flavors and have garnered national acclaim for the upscale Northern Virginia…
Rajat Bhageria is the CEO of Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that has raised $20.6 million in a Series A round to continue building artificially-intelligent, food-assembly robots. Courtesy of Chef Robotics As the food service industry continues to struggle with labor shortages, a Silicon Valley startup has put together artificially-intelligent robots that are ready…
The king crab tart at Huso.| Cayla Zahoran Photography/Huso When people think of cooking competition shows, they immediately think of Top Chef. After the series premiered in 2006, it came to define culinary reality television shows — throw a bunch of talented chefs into a room together and make them surprise-cook high-quality dishes, and see…
The newest season of Top Chef is just around the corner, set to air Thursday, March 13. Season 22, hosted by Kristen Kish, takes viewers to Canada to see 15 new cheftestants compete for $250,000, plus $125,000 in Delta flight credits, as they dive into the cuisines of Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, and Prince Edward Island….
Francis Mallmann, the world-famous Argentinian chef known for live-fire cooking, is opening a restaurant in New York this spring. It’s in the forthcoming Faena New York — an offshoot of the Miami Beach luxury hotel debuting near the High Line in Manhattan at 500 West 18th Street, near 11th Avenue, in a building designed by…
“Since taking over the menu, there are certain products I knew I wanted to use,” says Bradyn Kawack, now the executive chef of Chicago’s Atelier. After the restaurant was awarded a Michelin Star in 2023, Kawack was promoted to executive chef, overseeing the restaurant’s $170 tasting menu. For Kawack, creativity involves “finding the product first,”…
