Watching a cooking show on TV is kind of like watching golf on TV: Doing the thing is more fun than watching the thing. And yet I watch both, and with both things the original defense was that I was ...

Chef Jamie Oliver’s story, at least in terms of his rise to fame with “The Naked Chef,” is a story about filmmaking. He and the BBC Two documentary crew behind the series broke with the studio-based, ...

The Netflix food series Chef’s Table: Legends returns with four episodes, celebrating famous chefs who shaped modern food culture. On March 25, 2025, Netflix released the trailer for Chef's Table: ...

The latest season of Netflix’s long-running docuseries Chef’s Table profiles four of the most famous and celebrated chefs of the past half-century: Thomas Keller, Jamie Oliver, José Andrés and Alice ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kristin L. Wolfe is a New York-based journalist who covers food. If you’ve been a fan of the show, you are well aware of how each ...

David Gelb and Brian McGinn revolutionized food storytelling with their Netflix series Chef's Table, launched in 2015. Inspired by Gelb's critically acclaimed 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, ...

Cinematographer Adam Bricker has been shooting episodes of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table” for over a decade. Back then, the steamer was the first to push content out in 4K and later HDR. And so from the get ...

Chef’s Table: Legends is pulling up a chair at some icons’ tables. For the 10th anniversary of the long-running Netflix show, airing on Monday, April 28, the franchise looks to four influential ...

Chef’s Table, the 10-year-old-and-counting docuseries, returns to Netflix today with a new season titled “Legends.” It chronicles the careers of four culinary superstars—José Andrés, Thomas Keller, ...

When Chef's Table premiered on Netflix back in 2015, I remember having a stupid fleeting thought: Who would want to watch such a thing? This sort of docuseries, I assumed, would just make a person ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect date for the premiere of "Chef's Table: Legends" on Netflix. Watching a cooking show on TV is kind of like watching ...