The eighth edition of the Top Chef Awards took place in Dubai on 6 November, honoring 100 chefs from around the world and providing them with a platform to showcase their talents and culinary contributions to their home countries.

Unlike previous editions of the annual list, only the top three chefs were ranked in this year’s Top Chef Awards. For 2024, Rasmus Munk of Copenhagen’s experimental fine dining restaurant Alchemist tops the list, followed by Albert Adrià of Spain’s Engima (No. 2) and Eric of Copenhagen’s Jordnær (No. 3) Vilgaard followed. The remaining 97 chefs were divided into three knife tiers, similar to Michelin star ratings; one blade meant ‘excellent’, two meant ‘world class’ and three meant ‘best’.

So how does our city rank in the awards? 16 distinguished chefs from Hong Kong restaurants earned varying degrees of knife ranking. Among those taking a stab is Alvin Leung of hipster Cantonese restaurant Bo Innovation And Cafe BauDavid Toutain and Joris Rousseau at a nature-inspired French restaurant feuilleEric Räty from Scandinavian-Japanese venue pergolaOlivier Elzer is behind the French fine dining establishment L’Envoland Ricardo Chaneton of the pioneering Latin American restaurant Mono.

Award-winning chefs who earned two knives include Agustin Balbi of the Japanese-influenced Latin American venue AndoRichard Ekkebus from sustainable French restaurant amberSato Hideaki from Japanese-French place Ta VieSung Anh from Korean fine dining restaurant Hong KongVicky Cheng is behind innovative East-meets-West establishment and Cantonese eatery Oh yes And WingAs well as French-Chinese fine dining establishment Vicky Lau Tate Dining Room And purple.

Finally, four chefs from our city were awarded three prestigious knife rankings, including Anne Sophie Pic from the exclusive French fine dining establishment. Crystal Room Pic by Anne-SophieDanny Yip is behind the luxury establishment in Canton MinisterGuillaume Galliot from the elegant French restaurant Whimand Julien Royer of traditional yet casual French dining Louise.

This year’s comprehensive Top Chef list was compiled from a shortlist of 200 nominees, which included automatic re-nominations of the previous year’s top 100 chefs, as well as 100 new faces chosen by food journalists, critics, bloggers, photographers and other experts. industry.

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