Chef Yoram Nitzan designs refined and aromatic dishes glorifying the natural flavors of seafood and fish. His ability to combine French classicism, American modernism, and Mediterranean charm has made this superb fish and seafood restaurant consistently one of the very best in the country. Chef Yoram Nitzan demonstrates his famous Langoustine on “Forbidden Risotto”, Flavors from the Sea Plate and for desert Turkish Sting!

Champagne has never been the same since Carol Duval Leroy took over her family’s vineyards. We experience Champagne tasting competitions and authentic French cuisine on this gastronomial tour de force.

Jeff and Chris Galvin have started a food movement in London. From garnering Michelin stars to opening up what has been noted as the best French restaurant in the UK, viewers get to cook and dine with the masters. Sumptuous meals are presented, such as Lasagna of Dorset Sole served with Velouté of Girolles and a main course of Poached Landaise Chicken with Summer Vegetables & Rosemary Butter Sauce. Don’t forget dessert: Caramelized White Provence Peaches splashed with Lavender Ice Cream.

Reims is the capital of Champagne, and it’s also where the culinary adventure begins in chef Arnaud Lallement’s Two-Star Michelin restaurant, L’Assiette Champenoise. Lallement demonstrates how to grill langoustines, braise lamb and make an explosive dessert, a Raspberry Vacheron. Sweets await in one of the world’s oldest cookie-making factories. And of course a visit to Champagne is not complete unless you visit the vineyards where a special invitation awaits from Champagnes Paul Goerg.

Sail down Canal du Midi in Provence aboard Daniel Sak’s barge where he wines and dines his guests. Enjoy a Cassoulet in the medieval city of Carcassonne, delight in France’s most beautiful example of a market in Narbonne and eat as the locals do in Beziers. We also visit organic vegetable farms and artisanal cheese makers to complete the special recipes that Chef Sak has created, including his French take on Paella and a Strawberry- goat milk mousse with honey ice cream with Acacia flower Beignets.

Paul McCabe has earned himself “Best Rising Star Chef” from the James Beard Foundation because his cutting-edge dishes blend organic, local California produce and self-sustainable philosophies into a superb mélange of French California Cuisine. His three-course meal includes a first course of Beet Salad with Caramelized Yogurt, Local Citrus, Valdeon Cheese and Candied Pistachios; a main course of California Lamb Loin over a bed of Farro, Heirloom Carrots and Asparagus, topped with a Spiced Pepper Jam; and dessert: a White Chocolate Panna Cotta served with Local Strawberries, drizzled in Rhubarb Consommé and crowned with Strawberry Snow.

Daniel Boulud takes us to his butcher in New York’s Meat Packing District to choose the cut for his famed Seared Rib Eye and Red Wine Braised Short Ribs, teamed with a Tomato in a Light Choron Sauce stuffed with Marmalade, Spinach Fondue, Diced Buffalo Mozzarella Salad and a heavenly serving of Pommes Dauphines. We recreate coveted dishes from the famed restaurant Boulud: Peekytoe Crab Salad in a mold of Persian Cucumber-Black Sesame Coulis, draped with Early Mesclun and Radishes. Dessert is arguably the best molten lava cake in the world: a Warm Guanaja Chocolate Coulant filled with oozing Liquid Caramel and paired with a Creamy Milk Sorbet.

Rising star chef Michael Nizzero’s prepares a Tartare de Langonstine and two dishes made with ingredients from his garden: Vegetarian Gnocchi and variations of Rhubarb and Strawberry.