When Chef Christian Puglisi opened Copenhagen’s restaurant Relæ in 2010, his first as head chef, it was quickly awarded a Michelin star and became known as one of the most sustainable restaurants in the world.

He’s since gone on to open three more restaurants in Copenhagen - Manfred’s, Mirabelle, and Bæst, and each have followed in Relæ’s footsteps with a focus on sustainability.

So, for example, instead of importing mozzarella for the pizza at Baest, they make it themselves with raw milk from the 16 cows grazing at Puglisi’s Farm of Ideas, just 40 km from the restaurant – and stretch it by hand several times a day.

Before opening his own restaurants, Puglisi worked at such humble fine dining establishments as El Bulliin in Spain, and Noma in Copenhagen, where he served as sous chef for 2 1/2 years until he ventured out to open Relæ.

He selected the music for Relæ on his own when it first opened, but that duty has since been delegated to his trusted Somalier Allesandro Perricone, who helps to guide the vibe and playlists at that restaurant, in addition to Manfred’s, Mirabelle, and Bæst.

Christian Puglisi and Alessandro Perricone’s Shift List

ABBA - “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”

Daft Punk - “Giorgio by Moroder”

Adriano Celentano - “Susanna”

Tullio De Piscopo - “Un'Onda D'Amore”

Eros Ramazzotti - “Terra promessa”

Lucio Battisti - “Il Veliero (Chicago Balls Rework)”

William Onyeabor - “Fantastic Man”

Fela Kuti - “Let’s Start”

Prince - “Purple Rain”

Johnny Cash - “Folsom Prison Blues (Live)”

Neil Young - “The Needle and the Damage Done”

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Theme song: Jamie Drake - “Wonder”

The Marksman pub in East London has been around for over 150 years, exemplifying what a pub should be - cozy wood paneling, regulars that have been stopping in for decades, comforting food and quality local beer - English hospitality at it’s finest.

Chef Tom Harris took over the place with his co-founder and co-chef Jon Rotheram in 2015, and perhaps their greatest achievement, aside from being named Michelin’s pub of the year for 2017 - the first time a London pub was awarded the accolade, is that they kept the historic pub...a pub!

They could have easily turned the space into a fine dining establishment only - given that Chefs Tom and Jon met while running the St John Hotel restaurant together and worked previously at London’s legendary St John restaurant under head chef Fergus Henderson - but with the Marksman Public House, they managed to leave the bar downstairs relatively unchanged and converted the second floor into a stylish yet casual dining room to showcase their English cooking.

Tom's Shift List throws down some amazing jazz funk and reggae (among other genres), and describes why recipes should be described in musical terms.

Chef Tom’s Shift List

Johnny “Hammond” Smith - “Shifting Gears”

Joubert Singers - “Stand on the Word”

Fela Kuti - “Mr. Follow Follow”

Idris Muhammad - “Piece of Mind”

Roy Ayers - “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”

Eddie Hazel - “California Dreamin’”

The Allman Brothers Band - “Blue Sky”

Moses Boyd - “Rye Lane Shuffle”

James Brown - “I Got That Feelin’”

Eek a Mouse - “Wa-Do-Dem”

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - “You Don’t Love Me”

The English Beat - “Mirror in the Bathroom”

Charlie Parker - “Ko-Ko”

Neil Diamond - “Desiree”

Chef Tom’s Shit List

Arcade Fire - “Wake Up”

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Theme song: Jamie Drake - “Wonder”

Chef Jessica Largey was born and raised in the agricultural town of Fillmore, California, located just an hour outside of Los Angeles, and it turns out that growing up in a small town surrounded by orange groves, backyard avocado trees, and little else, was the perfect environment for a young chef to learn how to cook with fresh produce.

It’s not surprising, then, that Jessica will be incorporating Southern California’s abundance of produce into the menu at Simone, her first restaurant as head chef, which opened in Downtown LA’s arts district on September 20.

Prior to Simone, Jessica trained at the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena, enrolling at just 16 years old, and from there she landed her first internship and eventual post as a line cook at Michael Cimarusti’s celebrated fine dining restaurant Providence, located in Los Angeles.

Her credentials in fine dining quickly added up in the years to come, most notably becoming chef de cuisine at Manresa in Los Gatos, California, under head chef David Kinch. During her time at Manresa, which received its third Michelin Star in 2016, Largey was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year in 2014, and was nominated again the following year, when she won the award.

Jessica departed Manresa soon after, taking some time to reboot and discover her next move as a chef, and eventually landed back in Southern California, where she’s now poised to open Simone.

Chef Jessica Largey’s Shift List:

Shakey Graves - “Dearly Departed”

Neko Case - “People Got a Lotta Nerve”

Ben Sollee - “Mechanical Advantage”

Shania Twain - “Any Man of Mine”

Cher - “Believe”

The Clash - “Straight to Hell (Live)”

SNAP! - “Rhythm Is a Dancer”

David Bowie - “Golden Years”

Nina Simone - “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”

Nina Simone - “Mississippi Goddam (Live)”

Nina Simone - “You’ve Got to Learn”

Gap Band - “Outstanding”

Aerosmith - “Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)”

Rosio Sanchez is a Mexican-American chef from Chicago who’s now spent nearly a decade in Copenhagen.

Soon after working her first job at New York’s WD-50 with pastry chef Alex Stupak, she joined Rene Redzepi’s team at Noma, eventually becoming head pastry chef there while in her 20s.

After her time at NOMA, widely considered to be one of if not the best restaurant in the world, she struck out on her own to open a taqueria in Copenhagen - Hija de Sanchez - showing Denmark how delicious tacos made the right way—with fresh ground masa for tortillas imported from Oaxaca for starters - can really be.

In 2018 she launched Sanchez in Copenhagen, which she likes to describe as a Mexican Bistro, expanding the versatility of what Mexican food can be for the country of Denmark and beyond.

Rosio's shift list includes techno, salsa, disco, and reveals who she'd most want to sing like if she wasn't a chef (it's Mariah Carey).

Chef Rosio Sanchez’s Shift List

Acid Polly - “I See a Darkness”

Cafe Tacvuba - “El Aparato”

Sister Sledge - “He’s the Greatest Dancer”

ABBA - “Dancing Queen”

Buena Vista Social Club - “De Camino a la Vereda”

Margarita y Su Sonora - “Mi Bom Bon”

Los Angeles Azules - “Mis Sentimientos”

Daft Punk - “Instant Crush”

Jenny and the Mexicats - “Verde Más Allá”

Rocio Durcal - “Me Gustas Mucho”

Selena - “Enamorada de Ti”

The Distillers - “Hall of Mirrors”

Mariah Carey - “Honey”