A Chef's Voyage

“A Chef’s Voyage” begins in Los Gatos, California, as Kinch and the Manresa team close the famous restaurant for a month so that they can travel to France to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary. Planning the trip has been going on for months. In order to represent the refined Californian cuisine of Kinch in France, the team must bring some of the characteristic ingredients of Manresa, such as seasonings, sauces that take days to make and Pacific seafood such as abalone.
This is a story of many chefs’ voyages as we accompany the California team in unknown kitchens, joking with their French counterparts wearing toques, consulting Yelp to find late night Parisian grub – and celebrating the 15 years of Manresa excellence by doing what Chef Kinch and his team do best: creating meals and experiences worthy of those three stars.
Reminiscent of a classic “Rock Doc”, “A Chef’s Voyage” goes deep behind the scenes of their ‘voyage’ as they stage five dinner and four lunch events over the course of just 10 days in the world’s most cinematic venues, observing culinary superstars and their young and diverse supporting cast, and ultimately create something much more than food.
2020. USA. 90 minutes. Not rated.