The People · Page 105
The artisans of taste.
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Marcos Ascencio
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## Early Years From there, the work turns on a specific cooking language. Ascencio blends fine dining precision with street food soul, a useful shorthand for discipline without…
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Marcos Campos
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Executive Chef — Porto, Chicago: that is the defining line for Marcos Campos, a chef whose career has been shaped less by flash than by steady, hands-on accumulation. Born in…
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Winemaker
Marcos Eguren
Páganos, Spain
Marcos Eguren’s career reads like a progression through the central engines of a winery: making, directing, organizing, refining. It begins in Páganos and arrives, by a route that…
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Marcos Saenz
Antigua, Guatemala
Marcos Saenz is a Guatemalan chef, chef/owner at Al Fresco in Kyiv, Ukraine, and executive chef at Villa Bokéh in Antigua Guatemala. His career includes work at Casa Santo Domingo…
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Marcus Eaves
London, United Kingdom
## The Climb Marcus Eaves built his career through the standard ladder of serious kitchen work: training first, then repetition, then responsibility. Myton School, Stratford Upon…
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Michelin-starred chef
Marcus Gleadow-Ware
Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Marcus Gleadow-Ware’s work at Greydon House in Nantucket, Massachusetts, reads as the product of repetition, discipline, and time on the line. The same can be said of his period…
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Marcus Leow
Singapore, Singapore
His cooking language is built around exchange. The phrase Marcus Leow uses for it is explicit: “It’s a portmanteau that incorporates ‘foreign’ and ‘local’, where we take foreign…
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Marcus Rohlen
London, United Kingdom
## The Recognition It is not presented here as an award or credential, but as the senior role that defines Rohlen’s public culinary identity. In Rohlen’s case, the progression is…
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Winemaker
Mare Mrgudic
Potomje, Croatia
Mare Mrgudic grew up in a world where the family grapes were not held back for romance or ritual, but sent straight to the local co-op during Communist rule. That early…
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Marga Coll
Ses Illetes, Spain
Marga Coll’s career reads with the quiet clarity of a well-composed menu: focused, disciplined, and unmistakably her own. At Arrels by Marga Coll in Ses Illetes, she has held the…
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Margarita Forés
Manilla, Philippines
## The Path Margarita For trained at Marymount School of New York, Mount Holyoke College, and Assumption College San Lorenzo. Margarita went on to work as trainee at Axona…
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Winemaker
Margaux Nel
Calitzdorp, South Africa
## The Climb Training at Stellenbosch Business School gives Margaux Nel a base in structure as well as scale — useful grounding for work that moves between cellar decisions and…
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Chef
Maria Agnese
Rome, Italy
Gelato works on balance before it works on novelty: cold, fat, sugar, aroma, and the timing of flavor release. At Fatamorgana in Rome, Italy, Maria Agnese states the working…
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Winemaker
María Amezola Downes
Torremontalbo, Spain
## At a Glance - Role: owner. - Education: university studies. - Place: La Rioja, Spain. María Amezola Downes belongs to a family story rooted in La Rioja, where land,…
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Winemaker
María Martínez
Urunuela, Spain
Head Winemaker at Bodegas Patrocinio in Uruñuela, Spain, is the title that defines María Martínez’s work. At a Rioja Alta winery built around traditional Rioja grapes, her name is…
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Chef
Maria Piedad Cano
New York City, New York, United States
Maria Piedad Cano is the Colombian chef of Arepa Lady, the family-owned and operated Colombian cuisine concept in New York City, United States, offering arepas and other Colombian…
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Winemaker
Maria Teresa Mascarello
Barolo, Italy
## The Route Traditional Barolo practice is carried through cellar repetition as much as through inheritance. From 1993 to 2005, Maria Teresa Mascarello worked as winemaker at…
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Marian Cheng
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up At the University of Maryland, College Park, Marian Cheng trained before moving into food retail and restaurant work. That background sits behind the discipline now…
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Marian Reguera
Madrid, Spain
Owner of Taberna Verdejo in Madrid, Spain, Marian Reguera was born in the city and cooks from a formation that looks backward before it moves forward: mothers' and grandmothers'…
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Mariani Brothers
Rome, Italy
The cooking is place-bound Roman work: a Testaccio menu shaped by the slaughterhouse across the road, with offal treated as the central material rather than a side category. ##…
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Winemaker
Mariano Assini
Castelvenere, Italy
Mariano Assini’s work at Ca'Stelle is built on continuity: co-founding a winery in Castelvenere and staying close enough to shape its direction over time. As owner and project…
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Winemaker
Mariano Buglioni
Pescantina, Italy
## Career At Buglioni in San Pietro in Cariano, Valpolicella Classico, Italy, Mariano Buglioni worked as winemaker with a brief that placed the vineyard and cellar under natural…
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Chef
Mariano Russo
London, United Kingdom
The cooking works from direct, tactile materials: rabbit ragu folded through tagliatelle with girolles, octopus charred against tomato relish, purple potato cut with lime,…
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Mariano Torres
Ibiza, Spain
Mariano Torres is chef of Es Xarcu in Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza, Spain, and his remit reaches beyond the stove: he also co-runs and directs the Ibiza restaurant. It is a role…
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Marie Chiba
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo gives Marie Chiba her working ground: rice turned into sake, dishes built to meet it, and a table where Japanese, Western, and Chinese flavors can sit beside the same…
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Marie Martine Baue
Toronto, Canada
French Cuisine is the working base here: sauces, timing, sequence, restraint, and the discipline to make service read cleanly. In the cooking of Marie Martine Baue, that base is…
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Winemaker
Marie Pierre Bories
Pezilla La Riviere, France
She is French. ## The Climb Technical winemaking in South America anchored Marie Pierre Bories at Pernod-Ricard from 1986, where the work sat between laboratory discipline and the…
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Winemaker
Marie-Hélène Yung-Théron
Portets, France
Marie-Hélène Yung-Théron serves as owner-manager at Château de Portets, France. Her work centers on Bordeaux wines at the château, where the year is measured through weather,…
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Winemaker
Marie-Laure Copinet
Montgenost, France
Marie-Laure Copinet manages Champagne Marie Copinet in Montgenost, France, with her husband, Alexandre Kowal; the estate earned organic certification in 2021. The work behind that…
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Winemaker
Marie-Laure Lurton
Avensan, France
## The Essentials The career arc is compact and continuous: in 1992, Marie-Laure Lurton worked at the property with her father before assuming control. The handover stayed within…
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Winemaker
Marie-Pierre Iché
Oupia, France
The work is defined by continuity, responsibility, and the day-to-day decisions behind wine made and bottled with grapes, native yeasts, and a bit of sulfur dioxide. In…
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Winemaker
Marie‑Laure Latorre
Libourne, France
## Coming Up Marie-Laure Latorre’s progression through the wine trade reads like a study in selection, operations, and estate management. As national buyer at Système U, the work…
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Winemaker
Marijan Arman
Vizinada, Croatia
Marijan Arman was the winemaker at Arman Marijan Wines in Vižinada, Croatia, through 2022. His work is defined by a plainspoken view of the craft: "We don’t just grow grapevines,…
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Beverage Service Professional
Marika Josephson
Ava, Illinois, United States
Marika Josephson’s role at Scratch Brewing Company in Ava, United States sits between ownership and brewing, with the business side and the brewhouse held in the same working…
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Winemaker
Marilena Barbera
Agrigento, Italy
## Today The discipline of winegrowing is explicit in Marilena Barbera’s own framing: at Cantine Barbera in Menfi, Sicily, Italy, she identifies the work without ornament — “My…
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Winemaker
Marilyn Lasserre
Rieux Minervois, France
Marilyn Lasserre is winemaker at Céllier d'Eole in Rieux-Minervois, France. Her career biography is concise, but the shape of it is clear: training in Bordeaux, then the role that…
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Chef
Marina “Chickie” Aggelakis
Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
## The Climb Seafood service on the North Shore is measured in prep, fryer discipline, repeat trade, and the ability to meet a rush without lowering the standard. Marina “Chickie”…
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Winemaker
Marinda Kruger-Claassen
Elgin, South Africa
## The Work Today At Elgin Vintners, the work is split between cellar decisions and business stewardship, and since 2018 Marinda Kruger-Claassen has held both sides of that brief…
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Winemaker
Marinella Camerani
Mezzane Di Sotto, Italy
Marinella Camerani is the owner of Camerani Marinella in Mezzane Di Sotto, Italy. In Mezzane Di Sotto, Italy, the name Camerani Marinella functions as both signature and setting,…
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Chef
Mario André Miralles
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
Before he became Executive Chef at Casa Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, Mario André Miralles began his career at the same property under the ownership of Billy…
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Chef
Mario Bernatovic
Vienna, Austria
Mario Bernatovic’s route runs through Austria, where ownership under his own name came before the chef role at Albert in Vienna. That sequence matters in trade terms: it shows a…
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Mario Céspedes
Madrid, Spain
The material gives the cooking its texture, while Mario Céspedes’s own frame for the work is disciplined and clear-eyed: product first, technique exact, and fusion not as ornament…
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Winemaker
Mario Chanton
Visp, Switzerland
Since 2008, Mario Chanton has held the Managing Director role at Chanton Weine in Visp. The point here is continuity: one organization, one place, one appointment sustained over…
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Chef
Mario Sánchez Ariza
Madrid, Spain
Mario Sánchez Ariza works as Executive Chef at Comparte Bistró in Madrid. He was previously an owner of the restaurant, and the kitchen position he describes is built on technique…
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Mario Valles
Madrid, Spain
Executive Chef Mario Valles leads Casa Hortensia in Madrid, bringing a quietly assured culinary voice to a city that rewards precision, restraint and a sense of place. The…
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Winemaker
Marjorie Gallet
Latour De France, France
## The Climb Training at the University of Montpellier gave Marjorie Gallet the technical base for a winemaking practice built on precision rather than display. In 2001, she…
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Winemaker
Mark Angeli
Thouarce, France
Mark Angeli is proprietor of Ferme de la Sansonnière in Thouarcé, Anjou, Loire Valley, France, and he has led the estate since 1989. In a region where the landscape seems to…
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Mark Isreal
New York City, New York, United States
## The Essentials Doughnut making at Doughnut Plant has been built on family recipe, repetition, and a format that could scale without flattening the work. Mark Isreal founded the…
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James Beard Award winner
Mark Kiffin
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Chef-owner Mark Kiffin has shaped The Compound Restaurant in Santa Fe since 2000, bringing a measured, long-view approach to Southwestern cooking in a city that values both…
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Mark Klebeck
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Mark Klebeck founded Top Pot Doughnuts & Coffee in Seattle by reading a gap in the market with both a baker’s instinct and an entrepreneur’s eye. In 2002, he co-founded Top Pot…
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Mark Kotlick
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## Coming Up Bradley University provided the formal start for Mark Kotlick, but the work that followed is where the trade sharpened. The arc from school into the family business…
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Mark Lapico
New York City, New York, United States
Mark Lapico serves as Executive Chef of Jean Georges Restaurant in New York City, with a career built inside Jean-Georges Restaurants. His progression runs through Nougatine at…
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Mark Moriarty
Manhattan, New York, United States
From summer holidays at 15 in the kitchen of The Chart House in Dingle, County Kerry, to the role of official chef partner at The Dead Rabbit, Mark Moriarty’s career reads as a…
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Mark Pomaski
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
Mark Pomaski is the chef and co-owner of Moon & Turtle in Hilo, after a path that runs through Roy’s Restaurant in Waikiki, where he trained and worked as a sushi chef. The…
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Mark Schmidt
Houston, Texas, United States
Mark Schmidt is Executive Chef of Rainbow Lodge in Houston, United States. The title has a longer history for him: from 2009 to 2011, he held the same post at the restaurant. His…
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Mark Soyka
Miami, Florida, United States
Mark Soyka founded News Cafe in Miami Beach, United States, in 1988, after moving down from New York. What began as a personal act of making something he thought he would simply…
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Winemaker
Marko Fakin
Motovun, Croatia
Winemaking at Fakin Winery in Istria, Croatia, is built on a clear sequence: grapes are gathered by hand, then shaped with modern technology only where it serves the wine. Marko…
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Markoulis Giannis
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Island cooking on Paros starts with supply, not concept. Fresh catch from local fishermen, seafood from the Aegean Sea, and produce grown on Paros define the working range before…
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Winemaker
Marta Soares
Lisbon, Portugal
## At a Glance Marta Soares makes wine at Casal Figueira in Lisbon, Portugal, with the work framed less as a market category than as a reading of place. Her own terms are plain:…
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Chef
Martin Abramzon
Ronda, Spain
Martin Abramzon is the chef behind Kutral por Martin Abramzon in Ronda, Spain, a career defined less by a scatter of postings than by the singular identity of the restaurant that…
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Winemaker
Martin Bacquaert
Heuvelland, Belgium
## The Path Training in France gave Martin Bacquaert a working base in discipline, and that foundation shows in a career built around clarity of purpose and place. At…
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Relais & Châteaux Grand Chef
Martin Burge
Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Martin Burge is now Culinary Director at Farncombe Estate in Broadway, a role built on the old craft of working upward through serious kitchens. The through-line is classical…
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Winemaker
Martin Conrad
Brauneberg, Germany
Since 1998, Martin Conrad has been making wine at Bio-Weingut Martin Conrad in Brauneberg, Germany, a place where the pace of the work seems deliberately attuned to the rhythm of…
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Winemaker
Martin Diwald
Gro Riedenthal, Austria
Martin Diwald’s work at Bioweingut Martin Diwald in Großriedenthal, Austria, is rooted in the quiet discipline of organic wine farming and the patient, hands-on rhythm of the…
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Winemaker
Martin Donatsch
Malans, Switzerland
## Coming Up In Malans, Switzerland, Martin Donatsch works from within a place that already defines much of the brief: estate wine made with close attention to site, fruit, and…
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Martin Ho
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen sets the working conditions for fried chicken that has to land cleanly: casual format, sharp standards, and a counter at Poulette CPH where the form is the point rather…
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Winemaker
Martin Kaintz
Frauenkirchen, Austria
Winemaker at Bioweingut Heideboden - Martin Kaintz in Frauenkirchen, Austria, is the title that defines Martin Kaintz. Since 2008, he has run the Heideboden organic winery,…
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Winemaker
Martin Konorza
Munich, Germany
## At a Glance - Current role: founder and president. - Ownership: owner of the company. - Family standard: “Naturally, I want to do justice to this special legacy. That’s what…
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Winemaker
Martin Lemayr
Cornaiano, Italy
Martin Lemayr is the winemaker at Cantina Colterenzio · Kellerei Schreckbichl in Cornaiano, where his work moves between precision and restraint, and where the character of the…
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Chef
Martin Mak
Miami, Florida, United States
Barbecue service at Hutong New York in New York City is a defining credit in Martin Mak’s career because it puts heat management, timing, and dining-room control in the same…
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Martin Morales
London, United Kingdom
Martin Morales has led Ceviche in London since 2012, when he founded it as a platform for Peruvian cooking. That move reads less like a brand exercise than a form of…
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Martina Fiorino
Serralunga d'Alba, Italy
Martina Fiorino is a member of the family team at Bruna Grimaldi in the Langhe. After completing a degree in Business Administration and working abroad in the wine industry for…
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Winemaker
Martina Prieto Pariente
Seca, Spain
Martina Prieto Pariente’s career has found its shape in two parallel gestures: stewardship and creation. Since 2017, she has served as Technical Director at Bodegas José Pariente…
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Chef
Martino Ruggieri
Paris, France
## Career Formal hospitality training and a disciplined culinary base define Martino Ruggieri’s profile before any title does. At Héritages in Paris, that approach translates into…
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Mary Jo Mosca
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Owner and operator of Mosca’s Restaurant, Mary Jo Mosca was formed not by a formal school named in public career notes, but by the house itself: the kitchen at Mosca’s in…
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Winemaker
Marylène Bovard-Chervet
Praz Vully, Switzerland
Marylène Bovard-Chervet has been winemaker at Château de Praz-Vully, Switzerland, since 2011, shaping wines from a place where precision and restraint matter as much as instinct.…
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Winemaker
Maryse Chatelin
Uchizy, France
In Uchizy, the work moves from parcel to bottle with a quiet insistence on place: a parcel in Viré-Clessé, Pinot Noir shaped into rosé, and a first wine that arrived as a personal…
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Chef
Masa Takayama
New York City, New York, United States
Japanese cuisine and sushi, as practiced at Masa in New York City by owner Masa Takayama, are organized around attention, timing, and restraint. The omakase form is present, but…
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Chef
Masafumi Nomoto
Paris, France
Masafumi Nomoto’s Paris story runs from the udon street food he began promoting to Parisians in 1991 to his work as chef of Charbon Kunitoraya in Paris. The path has moved through…
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Chef
Masahide Ikuta
Paris, France
Masahide Ikuta stepped into the chef’s role at **Masaikuta in Paris in 2025**, and that appointment now stands as the defining public marker of his work: a specific kitchen, a…
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Masahiro Tanabe
Matsumoto, Japan
Masahiro Tanabe serves as the main chef of the Tobira group at Tobira Onsen Myojinkan in Matsumoto, Japan. In that role, the work is tied to a house where place, pace, and welcome…
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Chef
Masakatsu Oka
Tokyo, Japan
Masakatsu Oka moves through the world of sushi with the measured calm of someone who has spent years learning how to let precision look effortless. In Tokyo, Japan, he is the chef…
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Masaki Fujioka
Shizuoka, Japan
Masaki Fujioka has run a single chef-owned room, Nihon Ryori FUJI in Shizuoka, since 2014. The name signals the frame: the first part of Fujioka, with Mt. Fuji folded in. The work…
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Chef
Masanobu Yoshimizu
Shanghai, China
Masanobu Yoshimizu is Executive Chef of Kurogi Shanghai, China. Born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, he works in Authentic Japanese kaiseki cuisine, a style that prizes quiet…
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Chef
Masao Kuribara
San Francisco, California, United States
Masao Kuribara is the chef of Hinodeya Ramen Bar in San Francisco. Born in Hasuda City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, he works in dashi ramen and brought that focus to the United…
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Masashi Watanabe
Sapporo, Japan
Edomae technique changes when worked through Hokkaido product. At Sushi Tanabe in Sapporo, Japan, Masashi Watanabe has built the counter around that meeting point since 2008:…
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Chef
Masataka Fujisawa
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
## The Route Restraint is the working discipline in Masataka Fujisawa’s sushi: fewer gestures, tighter control, and no cover for weak timing. Early work as chef at Sushi Masataka…
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Masatoshi "Gari" Sugio
New York City, New York, United States
Masatoshi "Gari" Sugio founded Sushi of Gari in New York City, with the role dated 1997–2025. In 1997, he opened the first Sushi of Gari and introduced New Yorkers to a new way to…
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Masayuki Hara
London, United Kingdom
## The Training La Gavroche is the named house that shaped Masayuki Hara’s London formation. He came to the city to join the three-star Michelin restaurant, and that setting…
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Masayuki Otaka
Portland, Maine, United States
## The Estate Binchotan charcoal, chicken liver pâté monaka, and the measured cadence of a kappo-style yakitori omakase are the clearest markers of Masayuki Otaka’s work: smoke,…
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Chef
Masha Rener
London, United Kingdom
Masha Rener is the resident head chef at Lina Stores in London, where her cooking carries the easy confidence of someone who knows exactly how much can be said through pasta and…
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Winemaker
Massimiliano Caburazzi
Montefalco, Italy
Oenologist at Antonelli in Montefalco, Italy, is the title that defines Massimiliano Caburazzi’s work. The role puts him behind wines tied directly to one of Umbria’s most…
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Chef
Massimiliano Conti
San Francisco, California, United States
## The Path At La Ciccia, Massimiliano Conti has held both the founding and kitchen-side roles since 2006. That continuity matters in Sardinian cooking: the restaurant’s identity…
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Winemaker
Massimo Bronzato
Verona, Italy
## Coming Up At the University of Padua, Massimo Bronzato trained in the foundations that now shape Bronzato’s work in Verona. The label’s focus stays on the grape and the…
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Winemaker
Massimo Marasso
Barolo, Italy
Massimo Marasso is listed as the oenologist for Lo Zoccolaio Langhe Baccanera 2021 at Lo Zoccolaio in Barolo, Italy; from that Barolo credit, the route extends through Cortese in…
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Winemaker
Massimo Piona
Custoza, Italy
The estate frame is the first technical fact: Albino Piona founded the family property in 1893 in the Custoza area near Lake Garda. Within that inheritance, Massimo Piona’s work…
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Chef
Massimo Riccioli
Rome, Italy
## At a Glance - Role: chef and patron - Venue: La Rosetta, Rome, Italy - Career history: La Rosetta - Specialty: seafood - Craft note: ingredient quality, pleasure, and…
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Winemaker
Massimo Rivetti
Neive, Italy
Massimo Rivetti is the winemaker at Azienda Agricola Rivetti Massimo in Neive, where the work is as straightforward in its purpose as it is exacting in its execution: wine is the…
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Winemaker
Massimo Veglio
Diano D Alba, Italy
In Diano d'Alba, Italy, the work begins with land: vineyards held inside a family farm whose cultivation reaches back to 1700. Since 2000, Massimo Veglio has been co-owner and…
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Winemaker
Matej Fiegl
Gorz, Italy
## The Path Enology and agraria training brought Matej Fiegl into the working vocabulary of the Fiegl winery, where the younger generation of the Fiegl winemaking family has taken…
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