Oriana Fenwick

Dec 13, 2023 | departures.com | Sophie Mancini |Oriana Fenwick |Maureen Evans

NAMED THE WORLD’S Best Female Chef 2023 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Chef Elena Reygadas helms some of Mexico City’s most beloved culinary institutions: Rosetta, Lardo, Café Nin, and Bella Aurora, as well as the famed Panadería Rosetta bakery and Salón Rosetta cocktail lounge. She is an enormous advocate of her country and for female leadership and representation in the kitchen, quietly running a scholarship that supports Mexican women who have been accepted to culinary school.

Sep 21, 2023 | departures.com | Sophie Mancini |Oriana Fenwick

THE HARDEST RESERVATION to get in New York City? Dept of Culture. Serving a tasting menu of North-Central Nigerian cuisine, Chef Ayo Balogun’s 16-seat, communal-style restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood has had the city buzzing for a taste since it opened last year. Around the corner from Dept of Culture, Chef Balogun also runs a neighborhood cafe, The Council Cafe.