Norwegian Breakaway will have three eateries by Geoffrey Zakarian, a Food Network Iron Chef who has served as a top chef and restaurant owner at a number of New York City venues.

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Christian is now executive chef at Tip Top, a restaurant in the very heart of the Croatian capital.

BBC: Working Lives Croatia: Chef

Reinvestigating techniques of old Soviet culinary science is one of the whimsies of Anatoly Komm, the Russian molecular chef who joined the San Pelligrino Top 50 Restaurant list in 2011.

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Las Vegas restaurateur and Top Chef Masters contestant Alex Stratta rolled the dice on his first Big Apple restaurant, the recently opened Bigoli .

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The men only the third pair to tie for the top chef award in the foundation's history have been lauded as restaurant revolutionaries.

WSJ: David Chang, Paul Kahan tie for top chef honor

One top-end option is Cordelia, a critically acclaimed French restaurant by renowned Israeli chef Nir Zook.

BBC: Jaffa, an Israeli city in flux

Fans of New Nordic cuisine, take note: the eighth annual Copenhagen Cooking festival runs 24 August to 2 September, featuring top Danish and Scandinavian chefs, including Rene Redzepi, head chef at Noma, awarded best restaurant in the world two years running.

BBC: Openings: Shanghai, Istanbul, Brooklyn, Copenhagen