The Final Table (2018)

Genre

cooking show

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 10 episodes

Rated

L

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Twelve international teams of two chefs compete in a cooking competition. Each episode focuses on a different country's cuisine, and the chefs must create an elevated version of a nationally significant dish. A panel of judges from that country scores their dishes, and the lowest-scoring teams face elimination in a second round.

competitivehigh-stakeseducationalpolishedglobaltensefast-paceddetailedprofessional

What happens

The Final Table is an American cooking competition and reality television series hosted by food writer and critic Andrew Knowlton, and filmed in Los Angeles, California for Netflix. The first season was released on November 20, 2018. It features twelve international teams of two professional chefs each competing to create elevated dishes based on the country chosen for each episode. The first round is judged by a three-person panel—a food critic, and two culturally significant citizens, all representing the episode's country—assessing each team's interpretation of their chosen nationally significant dish. Interspersed among the cooking activities are video packages featuring the culinary biographies of the contestants. The second round of each episode is The Final Plate Challenge. A chef, who already has an honorary seat at The Final Table, picks an ingredient representing their country's cooking culture, and then judges each team's dish highlighting that ingredient, eliminating one or two teams. In the first seven episodes, the bottom three teams are up for elimination in the second round, in the eighth and ninth episodes, only one team is not up for elimination. For the finale, the nine chef judges from each episode return, and are featured at The Final Table along with signature dishes they had each created that changed the food world. The final two competing chef teams break up and compete as individuals. Each of the four contestants must prepare a signature dish that defines them as a chef, and will “cause ripples around the culinary world”. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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