Documentary is meant to take you somewhere you’ve never been. It’s a medium of film that shines a light into dark corners, back alleys, and beyond closed doors. At its best, it illuminates a corner of the world that we most likely will never, ever experience. So it’s suiting in a way that Netflix’s serial documentary Chef’s Table chose nearly unattainable food experiences to build each episode around.
Netflix just dropped their season three trailer (season four if you’re counting the French series) and it looks like some fantastic venues are in the spotlight again, but this time with a little twist. Some of these places are very accessible to all of us. There’s a walk up in Manhattan, a famed osteria on Melrose, and a buddhist temple tucked away high in the South Korean mountains where a nun slings some serious food. The season is still replete with haute cuisines — from Moscow’s enfant terrible Chef Mukhin swigging from a vodka bottle to the austere Berliner wunderkind Chef Raue, but it feels different this time. Maybe the shift is found in the ease of a humble bowl of ramen or the serenity of a temple.
The inclusion of Chef Virgilio Martinez’s super Peruvian Central Restaurante is probably the mountaintop of this season’s offerings. Chef Martinez is opening up Peru’s long forgotten and ignored local delicacies to the whole world. He creates an “ecosystem” in one dish. He even got a special shout out on our very own list of world cuisines to look for in 2017.
So pump up some Vivaldi and get ready for season three while you peruse our gallery of the six chefs highlighted in this season’s Chef’s Table. It’s back February 17th.
VIRGILIO MARTINEZ – CENTRAL, LIMA
VLADIMIR MUKHIN – WHITE RABBIT, MOSCOW
NANCY SILVERTON – OSTERIA MOZZA, LOS ANGELES
IVAN ORKIN – IVAN RAMEN, NEW YORK
TIM RAUE – RESTAURANT TIM RAUE, BERLIN
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JEONG KWAN – BAEKYASA TEMPLE, SOUTH KOREA
