Spago is Wolfgang Puck's flagship restaurant worldwide, known for serving California cuisine. Spago is Puck's first restaurant venture.
Pierre Gagnaire is a French chef, and the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris. Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the fusion cuisine movement. Beginning his career in St. Etienne where he won three Michelin Stars, Gagnaire tore at the conventions of classic French cooking by introducing jarring juxtapositions of flavours, tastes, textures, and ingredients. On his website, Gagnaire gives his mission statement as the wish to run a restaurant which is 'facing tomorrow but respectful of yesterday'.
Daniel Boulud is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, and Dubai. He is best known for his eponymous restaurant Daniel, opened in New York City in 1993, which currently holds one Michelin star.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is a French-American chef. Vongerichten owns restaurants in Miami Beach, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo, as well as New York's Jean-Georges restaurant and Tangará Jean Georges in São Paulo's Palácio Tangará, by Oetker Collection. He is head chef of Eden Rock, St Barths. Vongerichten is the author of five cookbooks, two with Mark Bittman.
José Ramón Andrés Puerta is a Spanish-American chef and restaurateur. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States in the early 1990s and since then, he has opened restaurants in several American cities. He has won a number of awards, both for his cooking, and his humanitarian work. He is a professor as well as the founder of the Global Food Institute at George Washington University.
Eric Ziebold is an American chef and restaurateur with two Michelin Star restaurants in Washington, D.C., Kinship and Métier. He was executive chef at CityZen from 2004 to 2014, where he won several awards, including a James Beard Award.
Andrew Jacques Sasson is a British-American entrepreneur, hotelier, and real estate developer. With Andy Masi, he is the co-founder of The Light Group, which owns several restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, mainly in the New York City and Las Vegas areas.
Gianfranco Chiarini is an Italian celebrity chef, food engineer, television personality and restaurateur. His career ranges from Michelin starred restaurants, cruise lines, deluxe hotels and resorts, restaurateur, consultancy chef, TV chef, chef to presidents and royalty, research and development chef for the mass manufacturing food companies across Europe, Middle East and Africa, food technology applications chef, culinary teacher and book writer. In addition, Chiarini speaks seven languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Arabic. These varieties of languages have made him an intercultural chef, permitting him to cross over to many countries and culinary styles internationally.
Quique Dacosta is a Spanish chef. He began his professional career as a chef in 1986. In 1988, he joined the team at the restaurant that would later become Quique Dacosta Restaurante.
Choi Hyun-seok is a South Korean chef and television personality. He gained mainstream recognition for his appearances on the variety show Please Take Care of My Refrigerator, from which he became known for his flamboyant stage presence. He worked in Seoul in the Italian restaurant La Cucina before becoming the head chef at Elbon the Table, which has two branches in Seoul and one in Goyang. He is currently the head chef at Choi, a Korean-European fusion restaurant in Seoul. In 2020, he opened his new restaurant Central Reducer (중앙감속기). In 2023, he appeared on the competitive cooking show Culinary Class Wars and made it to the final eight contestants.
Vicky Lau, a culinary entrepreneur born in Hong Kong, is the founder and head chef of Tate Dining Room, a restaurant awarded two-Michelin star, and green Michelin star Mora. In 2015, she was named the Best Female Chef in Asia by Asia's 50 Best Restaurants.
Olivier Elzer is a French chef. He was named one of the top 22 best young chefs in France by the guide Gault Millau in 2007. He was awarded a total of 25 Michelin stars for 16 consecutive years working in France and Hong Kong. Elzer is recognised for his work as head chef of Pierre at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Hong Kong, L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon and his own branding restaurant, Seasons, by Olivier E. In 2018, Elzer established L'Envol, a modern French fine dining restaurant at the St. Regis Hong Kong. L'Envol has two Michelin stars. In 2022, Elzer created his own casual dining concept in Hong Kong named Clarence. Chef Elzer was awarded the Knight in the Order of Agricultural Merit of the French Republic in 2022.
Claude Le Tohic is a French chef and restaurateur who earned a three Michelin star rating in Las Vegas for his work at Joël Robuchon, in the MGM Grand Hotel. In 2023, Le Tohic led Team USA to win the award of World Champion at the International Catering Cup (ICC) competition. In 2021, Le Tohic received a Michelin Star for his work at O' by Claude Le Tohic, in Union Square, San Francisco. In 2010, he was named Best Chef: Southwest by the James Beard Foundation. In 2004, Le Tohic received the peer-juried Meilleur Ouvrier de France honor. He is the Chef/Partner behind ONE65, a six-story multi-concept culinary destination in San Francisco's Union Square, which includes ONE65 Patisserie & Boutique, ONE65 Bistro & Grill, Elements at ONE65 and O’ by Claude Le Tohic.
The Bangkok Marriott Hotel The Surawongse is a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, that is part of the Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand. Owned by Asset World Corporation, the five-star hotel opened in 2018. The 32-floor building has 197 rooms and 106 suites. For hosting events, the hotel has two reception venues and 14 banquet spaces. The hotel has an infinity pool, a gym, and a spa.
Dante Boccuzzi is an American Michelin Star chef and restaurateur.
L'Amant Secret is a fine dining restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. It is located in the L'Escape Hotel and first opened in 2018. It serves contemporary cuisine, with some of the dishes taking inspiration from Korean cuisine. It received one Michelin star from 2021 through 2024. The restaurant was listed among the top 1,000 global restaurants in La Liste.
Kojacha (Korean: 코자차) is a fine dining restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. It first opened in May 2020, and received one Michelin star from 2022 through 2024. The restaurant serves dishes from Japanese and Chinese cuisine. Its name takes one syllable each from "Korean", "Japanese", and "Chinese", and means "Koreans serving Japanese and Chinese food".
Eatanic Garden (Korean: 이타닉가든) is a fine dining restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. The restaurant serves contemporary cuisine, with some dishes taking inspiration from Korean cuisine. It received one Michelin Star from 2023 through 2024. In 2024, it received a Michelin Service Award.
André Rochat is a retired French chef and restaurateur best known for his Michelin-starred Las Vegas-based restaurants Andre’s and Alizé.
Anh Sung-jae (Korean: 안성재), also professionally known as Sung Anh, is a South Korean chef. His restaurant, Mosu, was awarded the rare distinction of three Michelin stars for 2023 and 2024. He was one of the two judges for the 2024 Netflix cooking contest, Culinary Class Wars.
