Chef's Table: Pastry

Chef's Table
Pastry

Documentary Series4 Episodes2018Netflix
Executive ProducerBrian McGinn
Executive ProducerDavid Gelb
Executive ProducerAndrew Fried
DirectorBrian McGinn
DirectorAndrew Fried
DirectorDavid Gelb

A four-part spin-off that steps inside the kitchens of the world's most visionary dessert artists, from Milk Bar's Christina Tosi to Sicilian master Corrado Assenza. Each episode is an intimate portrait of a chef whose craft transforms sugar, flour and butter into fine art, capturing the obsession and imagination behind the sweetest course.

Episode 01Christina Tosi
Episode 01 — Christina Tosi
Episode 02Corrado Assenza
Episode 02 — Corrado Assenza
Episode 03Jordi Roca
Episode 03 — Jordi Roca
Episode 04Will Goldfarb
Episode 04 — Will Goldfarb

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