Trailer: Noodles Are Stars On The Netflix Chef’s Table

The Chef’s Table: Noodles premieres on Netflix today, crossing the globe and exploring the diverse world of noodles through the eyes of four master chefs who know them best.

This season of the ongoing chef series celebrates the culinary artistry of noodles and the stories behind them through the eyes of LA chef Evan Funke, Guirong Wei in London, Peppe Guida in Italy and Cambodian-American chef Chef Nite Yun.

Bringing his obsession with handmade pasta to the masses through an empire of restaurants that includes Felix and Mother Wolf, Funke cooked his way through LA institutions like Spago & Rustic Canyon before burning out and heading to Italy to discover a passion for the Bolognese tradition of rolling sheets of paste. The episode is devoted to the nonnas who taught him more than 100 handmade pasta shapes and the beauty of failure

A rarity in Chinese cuisine, female master chef Guirong Wei has charmed London with her hand-pulled Biang Biang noodles. Growing up in Shaanxi province, she trained in the culinary arts in Xi’an and was one of only four women in her cooking school. She went on to become the only female head chef in Xi’an.

Pasta chef Peppe Guida operates a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant in Vico Equense and a casual villa in the mountains above, with a farm that grows all the restaurant’s produce. His signature dish, spaghettini pasta cooked in lemon water with local Provolone del Monaco cheese and dried lime leaf, has won the best pasta dish in Italy multiple years from Gambero Rosso, Italy’s preeminent dining guide.

Restaurateur Yun is known for her contributions to preserving and celebrating Cambodian cuisine. She was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and later settled in Stockton, CA., with her family. In 2018, she opened Nyum Bai, a critically acclaimed restaurant in Oakland, CA., specializing in authentic Cambodian street food.

“This is the only meditation I have in life,” Funke told the crowd during a recent demonstration of rolling out paper-thin sheets of paste using one of his custom-made Mattarello rolling pins at Funke restaurant in Beverly Hills. “Pasta is a living and breathing thing. The more I teach people how to do this, the longer the lifespan of this art. Being a conduit for this tradition in the most respectful way possible is pure joy for me.”

Funke’s revered mentor, Alessandra Spisni, who also appears in the episode opposite her prodigy is coming to Los Angeles from Bologna for a special two-night culinary event at Felix on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at Funke.