A RESTAURANT GUIDE WITH A DIFFERENCE

Where Chefs Eat is a new international restaurant guide published by Phaidon Press. Unlike other guides, we didn’t ask critics or foodies to tell us their favourite places to eat, we asked the people who know food the best: over 400 of the world’s top chefs.

From bargain noodle joints to high-end restaurants; late-night haunts to all-day breakfasts; neighbourhood eateries to destination restaurants, Where Chefs Eat has more than 2,000 personal recommendations for where to eat around the globe.

Edited by food writer Joe Warwick, with entertaining reviews, quotes from the chefs and useful maps, Where Chefs Eat is the perfect guide for the culinary traveller.

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HOW THE BOOK CAME ABOUT

Over the years the Phaidon food team have been lucky enough to make books with some of the world’s leading chefs. While doing so we observed that, when it comes to dining out, chefs go to extreme lengths in search of good food. In fact, chefs eat well or they don’t eat at all.

For a while we used this knowledge wherever we found ourselves in the world: we could count on Ferran Adrià to recommend the best tapas bars in Barcelona; René Redzepi always directed us towards Copenhagen’s finest places for breakfast; and Daniel Patterson never let us down when it came to finding a bargain bite in San Francisco.

But we weren’t alone in having direct access to top restaurant recommendations. Joe Warwick, food writer and co-founder of The World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, did too. We met Joe at a food event and hatched a plan to collaborate and create something with what we realized was very privileged information. The something turned out to be Where Chefs Eat.

IN THE PRESS

'More than 2,000 recommendations from more than 400 chefs. And boy is it an impressive list: David Chang, Rene Redzepi, Sean Brock, Eric Ripert, Ferran Adria, Daniel Boulud, April Bloomfield, and so many more chefs lend their advice in this mammoth of a 700-page guidebook' Eater

'Need a reservation, like, tonight? Devour this guide...' Elle

'just might become a serious rival to ZAGAT in the restaurant guide department' Food Channel

'WHERE CHEFS EAT, full of tips from 400 of the world's biggest chefs, is the restaurant guide to end them all' Country & Town House magazine

SEE MORE

Visit the Where Chefs Eat website for more on the 400 chefs and their choices.

'It can be said with reasonable certainty that a new guide to restaurants is the first to feature a herring kiosk in Stockholm, a "wet burger" stand in Istanbul and a diner under a bridge in Hong Kong that majors in spicy crab, called Under Bridge Spicy Crab. These lesser-known eateries are among almost 2,000 restaurants, including dozens in Britain, recommended not by critics or reviewers, but a once closed-off community of foodies who have the strongest claims to be experts.' The Independent

JOE WARWICK TALKS ABOUT THE MAKING OF WHERE CHEFS EAT