Netflix cookery show The Final Table: top chefs, no shouting or screaming – and no Chinese food
- The Final Table brings 24 top chefs together in Los Angeles, competing in pairs cooking different national cuisines
- Nations featured include Mexico, Spain, England, Brazil, France, Japan, the US, India and Italy
Many of Hong Kong’s restaurants already glisten with Michelin stars, but can the city’s chefs hold their own under the bright lights of reality TV?
Three top chefs will be flying the Hong Kong flag on Netflix’s ambitious new global culinary competition The Final Table to prove they’ve got what it takes.
The trio will be pitted against some of the world’s most talented chefs in a bid to earn their spot at the elite “final table” of nine culinary icons, including molecular gastronomy master Grant Achatz of Alinea, Clare Smyth of Core, who is the first female British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars and Spain’s Andoni Aduriz of Mugaritz.
The Final Table will see 24 star chefs compete in pairs in country-themed challenges set by masters of each cuisine. Representing Hong Kong is Shane Osborn of Michelin star Arcane in Central, “LA Taco King” Esdras Ochoa of 11 Westside in Kennedy Town, and Rafa Gil who was at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong during filming last year.
After 30 years in some of the world’s top kitchens across three continents, Osborn says he was drawn to the series because The Final Table promised to celebrate “the industry for its excellence and skill involved in creating high-class food”.