Chef's Table: Noodles

Chef's Table
Noodles

Documentary Series4 Episodes2024Netflix
Executive ProducerBrian McGinn
Executive ProducerDavid Gelb
Executive ProducerAndrew Fried
DirectorBrian McGinn
DirectorRayka Zehtabchi
DirectorClay Jeter
DirectorZia Mandviwalla

Traces a single strand through four kitchens and four cultures — Evan Funke's handmade Italian pasta, Guirong Wei's Xi'an cuisine in London, Peppe Guida's Amalfi Coast traditions and Nite Yun's Cambodian kitchen in California. The season finds in noodles a quiet emblem of heritage, migration and the stories families carry across generations.

Episode 01Evan Funke
Episode 01 — Evan Funke
Episode 02Guirong Wei
Episode 02 — Guirong Wei
Episode 03Peppe Guida
Episode 03 — Peppe Guida
Episode 04Nite Yun
Episode 04 — Nite Yun

Press

IndieWireEmily Buder
The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
DeciderJoel Keller
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel Fienberg
BGRAndy Meek
TV GuideKrutika Mallikarjuna
Reality BlurredAndy Dehnart
IndieWireHanh Nguyen
Entertainment WeeklyWesley Stenzel & James Mercadante
The Irish TimesPeter Crawley
DeciderJoel Keller

Chef’s Table, an elegant six-part docuseries… goes refreshingly in the opposite direction, rediscovering simplicity in much the same way that the chefs it profiles… There are no hokey competitions or artificial deadlines here. Just chefs with vision, from all over the world, talking about what they’re trying to accomplish and why.

Chef’s Table is a one-of-a-kind meditation on creativity. In exploring the identity and artistic process of each chef, the series transcends the genre of the cooking show.

Chef’s Table, an elegant six-part docuseries… goes refreshingly in the opposite direction, rediscovering simplicity in much the same way that the chefs it profiles… There are no hokey competitions or artificial deadlines here. Just chefs with vision, from all over the world, talking about what they’re trying to accomplish and why.

Chef’s Table: Pizza carries on the show’s long tradition of putting the chef first, while still giving that person’s food more than enough time to make viewers’ mouths water.

This beautifully shot survey of international chefs is one of Netflix’s best shows.

No show has treated food more cinematically. And none has treated chefs more like poets, philosophers, and renegades.

Shot with the same care as the finest of fine dining restaurants, Chef’s Table is most effective when it’s elevating affordable, accessible food to culinary heights…

Wonderfully sublime and perfectly crafted… Chef’s Table elevates food but more importantly, elevates people.

Uniformly excellent.

Presenting gorgeous dishes and ingredients with sumptuous cinematography that makes every culinary creation look like a beautiful work of art.

Sumptuously shot portraits.

The biographical element of the episodes, along with the loving shots of the food itself, always wins the day.

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Awards &
Nominations

James Beard AwardDocuseries, Visual Media2026
Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special2025
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series2025
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program2025
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series2019
James Beard AwardBest Television Program, on Location2018
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program2018
James Beard AwardBest Television Program, on Location2017
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series2017
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program2017
James Beard AwardVisual and Technical Excellence2016
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series2016
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program2016
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Music Composition for a Series2016
International Documentary Association Award NominationBest Episodic Series2016
International Documentary Association AwardBest Episodic Series2015
Primetime Emmy Award NominationOutstanding Music Composition for a Series2015