Young Chefs

Catching up with regional winners, chefs Jose Lorenzo Morales and Victor/Zhi Cheng Wang. Read the Q&As.

The young chef representing the UK and Northern Europe won with a vegetarian dish, and he thinks that's the future. Find out more.

The S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy finalist has just taken the reins of a new fine-dining project in the UK capital, where he plans to plant a flag for Hungarian cuisine. Find out more.

Chef Eleonora Baranova assimilates global influences into local ingredients at her restaurant in Kyiv, Ukraine, creating a cuisine without limits.

The line-up of seven international chefs, known as The Seven Sages, who will decide the best young chef in the world at S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy 2021.

Applications are open for the Andrew Fairlie Scholarship, looking for young aspiring chefs to follow in the footsteps of Scotland's best chef.

The consolidation of Peruvian cuisine shows that not only famous chefs are doing their thing: a new local scene is blooming with new concepts in Peru's liveliest city.

Levente Koppány, Krzysztof Konieczny, Jana Stöger and Łukasz Moneta were the four young talents highlighted in the Central Europe final: we catch up with them before they head to the Grand Finale in 2020.

Talented young chefs Victor/Zhi Cheng Wang,  Ho Lam Shek, Pin-Jui Su and Ingrid Gonçalves share their thoughts and ambitions after their respective wins on their journey in the most exciting talent search for the best young chef in the world.

Find out what the winners Paul Thinus Prinsloo, Elissa Abou Tasse, Callan Austin and Marcus Gericke had to say about their win in the most compelling chef competition in the world.

The last in the 12 regional finals of the world's most gripping talent search for the best young chef is complete! Find out the finalist and three award winners in the Greater China final!

Meet the young talents destined to make waves in Latin America's fine dining scene following the regional final of the world's biggest search to find the best young chef: Cynthia Xrysw Ruelas Diaz, Eliodoro Xicum, Sebastián Pinzón Giraldo and Abraham Almazán.

Jerome Ianmark Calayag has been crowned winner in the regional heat of the world's biggest talent search to find the best young chef. He was joined on stage by three other special award winners. Discover all the winners and their signature dishes.

James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomnov has joined the advisory board for a new culinary school in Israel.

Discover the hopes and dreams of award winners Alessandro Bergamo, Antonio Romano, Tommaso Tonioni and Davide Marzullo in the SPYC 2019 final of Italy and South-East Europe.

Applications are open today for the 50 Best BBVA Scholarship which will allow one recipient a life-changing opportunity of three six-week stages in the Mirazur, Leo and The Test Kitchen.

Award winners Albert Manso, Andrea Ravasio, Mengxin Zhou and Óscar Dayas Rodríguez explain what their win in the global talent search means to them and how they understand the evolution of gastronomy through their dishes.

Meet the young chefs destined to make waves in Asia's fine dining scene following the regional final of the world's biggest talent search to find the best young chef: Kevin Wong, Karan Upmanyu, Muhammad Afif Adnanta Nasution and Tor Aik Chua.

Find out what the four award winners in the Pacific regional heat of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2020 had to say about their win and their hopes for the future of gastronomy.

Fine Dining Lovers caught up with the four winners from the North West Europe region of S.Pellegrino Young Chef. Find out what they had to say!

Alessandro Bergamo has been crowned the best chef in Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Croatia and will represent the region at the Grand Finale in May 2020. He was joined on the podium at the regional final by three other category winners.

The ten best young chefs from United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Morroco, South Africa and Turkey faced off in Cape Town at the live cooking competition on 14 October 2019 producing four award winners. Find out who!

The Euro Asia regional final will take place on 8 October 2019 when ten of the region's best young chefs go head to head in the kitchen, with four prizes up for grabs.

Four young chefs have been recognised with awards in the regional heat of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2019/20 on 9 October in Paris, with Alexandre Alves Pereira being named the best young chef for France, Belgium and Switzerland.

The San Francisco Chronicle has published its list of Rising Star Chefs for 2019: take a look at their names

The winner of the Central Europe Regional Final of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2020 is Levente Koppány from Budapest. Find out all the other winners from the region!

Cynthia Xrysw Ruelas Diaz takes wins the title of the Best Young chef in Latin America and will represent the region at the global final. Find out all the award winners from the day.

Albert Manso from Tickets Bar in Barcelona has been crowned the best young chef in the Iberian and Mediterranean Countries final in S.Pellegrino Young chef 2019/20. Three other special awards were also given to young chefs in the region highlighting the transformative power of gastronomy.

Ten hopeful young chefs cooked for a place in the final at the Asia regional final of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2019/20. Discover which was the winning signature dish plus the three other category award winners.

The Pacific regional final of S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2020 took place in Sydney, Australia on 26 August 2019 with J

The city has attracted young chefs willing to show that the Catalunya capital can go beyond the bodegas and the avant-garde restaurants that made it famous.

Meet the young chefs endeavoring to refine Sichuan’s culinary traditions. The unveiling treasures drive the public’s attention to rediscover Sichuan cuisine.

Ten of the best young chefs in North America will face off in the live cooking competition on 4 and 5 November in New York City. There will only be one winner going through to the Grand Finale - who will it be!

The Regional Finals for the UK and North Europe in the 4th edition of S.Pellegrino Young Chef will take place in London on 12 Nov

Foodies, chefs and fans around the world: have your say in the most exciting talent search for chefs in the world, S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2020 

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Chef Matteo Berti, chief of Alma International School of Italian Cuisine, explains how the commission is evaluating all S.Pellegrino Young Chef's applications.

Forbes has released its 30 Under 30 Europe list which highlights a number of young innovators across food and drink.

Find out what happens when several S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2018 finalists from all over the world meets, forage and cook together.

See the dishes from S.Pellegrino Young Chef finalists' unique 5-course menu, served as part of the spread of exclusive Sapori Ticino dinners this year.

This weekend 21 young chefs will present their signature dishes to a jury of top chefs. While waiting to discover who will win, see their amazing dishes.

The Filipino chef shares her journey and advice for aspiring young chefs, some of her own career mistakes and what's exciting her in food right now.

Three chefs have made Forbes magazine's annual list of the most creative young people in Europe across art and culture.

Chefs offer up advice to young chefs on how to succeed at cooking competitions. From patience to creativity, find out what it takes to win.

Chef Scott Conant is upset about the rise of young culinary students trying to skip important lessons and instead going straight for the celebrity limelight.

Take a look at this infographic detailing who trained who in the culinary world.

Three former S.Pellegrino Young Chef competitors feature in Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list of Europe's most exciting creative young people.

Mauro Colagreco, a judge at S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016, reveals how hard work and patience are rewarded in professional kitchens.

A chat with chef Wylie Dufresne, one of the Seven Sages at S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016, about his past (and future) career as a chef.

Meet chef Chantel Dartnall, famous for her innovative take on botanical cuisine, mentor for the Africa and Middle East finalist at S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016.

An interview with Romanian chef Adi Hadean, TV and radio personality, and mentor for the East Europe region at S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016.

An interview with David Martin, chef at La Paix restaurant in Brussels and mentor for the Benelux region at S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2016.

Andreas Caminada has launched Fundaziun Uccelin – an exciting project that aims to provide culinary scholarships for young chefs and servers.

The culinary mastermind behind Le Bernardin in New York has some inspirational advice for those starting out in the business.

An amusing double interview with Mark Moriarty and Paolo Griffa, respectively the S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 and Italian finalist: this is what they told us.

We speak with S.Pellegrino Young Chef judge Yoshihiro Narisawa about his own career as a young chef and projects he's currently working on.

An interview with S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 grand final jury member Margot Janse as she offers some of her own advice to young chefs.

We speak with the jury member for S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 Grand Final, Yannick Alleno, as he offers up his advice about working in the kitchen.

Joan Roca goes back to when he was a trainee as the jury member for S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 offers up his own advice to young chefs.

Watch legendary French chef Pierre Koffmann talk about the evolution of cuisine and dish advice to young chefs while cooking a mouthwatering seafood dish.

FDL catch up with some of the world's best chefs to ask them some of their top tips and advice to young culinary students, maybe the great chefs of the future.

Rene Redzepi has launched a MAD Grant - offering 10 young culinary students the chance to attend his MAD Symposium in August.

Los Angeles food truck king Roy Choi dishes out advice for young chefs in this video from the Culinary Institute of America.

FDL traveled to Taste of London to meet some of the young chefs driving a newly emerging dining scene across the city and Britain as a whole.