Trailer: Pasta is the Star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table

The Chef’s Table: Pasta Premiering today on Netflix, traveling around the world and exploring the diverse world of pasta through the eyes of the four master chefs who know them best.

This season of the ongoing chef series celebrates the culinary artistry of pasta and the stories behind it through the eyes of Los Angeles 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 a restaurant empire that included Felix and Mother Wolf, Funke worked his way through Los Angeles institutions like Spago and Rustic Canyon before burning out and heading to Italy to discover the passion for the Bolognese tradition of rolling pasta sheets. An episode dedicated to the nonnas who taught him over 100 handmade pasta shapes and the beauty of failure

A delicacy in Chinese cuisine, master chef Guirong Wei enchanted London with hand-pulled Biang Biang noodles. She grew up in Shaanxi Province, trained in the culinary arts in Xi’an, and was one of only four women at her cooking school. She became the only female chef in Xi’an.

Pasta chef Peppe Guida runs a fine-dining Michelin-starred restaurant in Vico Equense and an intimate villa in the mountains above where all of the restaurant’s produce is grown. His signature dish, spaghettini cooked in lemon water with local Provolone del Monaco cheese and dried lime leaves, won the title of best pasta dish in Italy for many years from Gambero Rosso, a distinguished Italian culinary 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 with her family in Stockton, California. In 2018, she opened Nyum Bai, a critically acclaimed restaurant in Oakland, California, specializing in authentic Cambodian street food.

“This is the only meditation I have in my life,” Funke told the audience during a recent demonstration of rolling paper-thin sheets of pasta with one of his custom-made Mattarello rollers at Funke restaurant in Beverly Hills. “Pasta is a living, breathing thing. The more I teach people how to do it, the longer the life of this art. It is pure joy for me to be a carrier of this tradition in the most respectful way possible.”

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