The Final Table
Genre	Cooking show
Directed by	Russell Norman
Presented by	Andrew Knowlton
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Robin Ashbrook and Yasmin Shackleton
Cinematography	Ramy Romany
Running time	53–59 minutes
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20)

The Final Table is an Americancooking competition andreality television series hosted by food writer and criticAndrew Knowlton, and filmed inLos Angeles, California forNetflix. The first season was released on November 20, 2018.^[1] It features twelve international teams of two professional chefs each competing to create elevated dishes based on the country chosen for each episode.^[2] The first round is judged by a three-person panel—a food critic, and two culturally significant citizens, all representing the episode's country—assessing each team's interpretation of their chosen nationally significant dish. Interspersed among the cooking activities are video packages featuring theculinary biographies of the contestants.

The second round of each episode is The Final Plate Challenge. A chef, who already has an honorary seat at The Final Table, picks an ingredient representing their country's cooking culture, and then judges each team's dish highlighting that ingredient, eliminating one or two teams.^[3] In the first seven episodes, the bottom three teams are up for elimination in the second round, in the eighth and ninth episodes, only one team is not up for elimination.

For the finale, the nine chef judges from each episode return, and are featured at The Final Table along with signature dishes they had each created that changed the food world. The final two competing chef teams break up and compete as individuals. Each of the four contestants must prepare a signature dish that defines them as a chef, and will “cause ripples around the culinary world”.

Each chef was paired with a fellow chef that they knew from their personal or professional life before the event. The 12 teams were:

Benjamin Bensoussan Manuel Berganza	Mark Best Shane Osborn	Aaron Bludorn Graham Campbell	Collin Brown Colibri Jimenez
Monique Fiso Amninder Sandhu	Rafa Gil Esdras Ochoa	Alex Haupt Ash Heeger	Timothy Hollingsworth Darren MacLean
Ronald Hsu Shin Takagi	James Knappett Angel Vazquez	Jessica Lorigo Johnny Spero	Charles Michel Rodrigo Pacheco

  The contestants cooked the best dishes in the challenge.

  The contestants were nominated, but cooked the best dish of the final plate round.

  The contestants were nominated, but they weren't eliminated and they didn't cook the best dish of the final plate round.

  The contestants were eliminated in the final plate round.

  The contestants were safe.

  The winner was part of the team.

  The contestants were finalists, but did not win.

  The contestants were already eliminated in previous episodes.

Upon release, the show received a mixed response from critics. On review aggregation websiteRotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 50% approval rating based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 4.67 out of 10.^[4]

In a review forThe Guardian, criticLucy Mangan described the show as "bombastic and barely watchable", giving the show two out of five stars.^[5] In a more positive review, David Sexton wrote in theEvening Standard that fans ofMasterChef will "love this".^[6] David Levesley ofGQ noted the high and low points of the show, writing that it contained "the perfect blend of trash and intellect".^[7]

• The Final Table onNetflix
• The Final Table atIMDb

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• 2010s American cooking television series
• American English-language television shows
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• American cooking television series
• Reality cooking competition television series
• Television shows filmed in Los Angeles
• Television series about chefs

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