The third season of hit Hulu present The Bear dropped in full on Wednesday evening, and with it got here an absolute bounty of chef and restaurant cameos — maybe too many. All through the season’s 10 episodes, a slew of meals world luminaries make appearances in each the previous and current of chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), serving as each his culinary influences and his skilled friends.
Many of those appearances happen within the sequence finale, when a gaggle of outstanding cooks and hospitality execs collect at Chicago restaurant Ever for a “funeral” of kinds. (Scroll to the tip for the total accounting of these names, which make up absolutely half the record of cameos.) Others arrive proper on the onset, as we get a have a look at Carmy’s skilled historical past, together with studying tips on how to prepare dinner as a stage in among the world’s most lauded eating places.
In case you couldn’t sustain with the onslaught of well-known meals people, we’ve rounded up each real-life chef that makes a cameo in Season 3 of The Bear.
The chef and restaurateur cameos all through Season 3
Daniel Boulud
When Carmy heads off to New York Metropolis lengthy earlier than the Bear ever opens its doorways, certainly one of his first jobs is staging at Daniel Boulud’s restaurant Daniel. In Season 3, we see Boulud in a number of flashbacks instructing Carmy within the kitchen throughout a busy dinner service.
Thomas Keller
Keller additionally makes a number of appearances in Season 3, as does his Napa restaurant the French Laundry. We see the restaurant in a number of scenes — Carmy sketching concepts for dishes within the restaurant’s lush gardens, working dinner service contained in the kitchen — and Keller delicately educating the chef tips on how to correctly truss a rooster in an Episode 10 flashback.
René Redzepi
Earlier seasons have referenced Carmy’s time in Copenhagen, and now we’ve received definitive proof that he did certainly stage at Noma. The soon-to-shutter restaurant made an look in Episode 1 of the brand new season, in a montage that features Carmy foraging, cooking, and prepping alongside Noma workers. (And naturally, the restaurant posted behind-the-scenes photographs from these scenes on Instagram.)
Will Guidara
Hospitality whiz and former Eleven Madison Park co-owner Will Guidara is a co-producer on The Bear, and his affect permeates the sequence. In Season 2, we see Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) studying Guidara’s ebook Unreasonable Hospitality, and later texting him for recommendation.
Paul James
The NYC-born chef who operates Uncle Paulie’s Deli in Los Angeles seems as non permanent assist for the Bear’s Italian beef window, in Episode 6.
Adam Shapiro
Fictional chef Andrea Terry (Olivia Coleman) and proper hand man Adam Shapiro are positively focused on poaching Sydney away from the Bear. Regardless that the Adam Shapiro within the present isn’t really a chef at Ever, actor Adam Shapiro (sure, his character has his actual identify) does have his personal bakery, the Snappy Pretzel Firm, which as soon as supplied Philly-style mushy pretzels for the Oscars ceremony.
Each funeral dinner cameo in Episode 10 “Endlessly”
Will Guidara
The restaurateur seems within the season finale, sharing his restaurant knowledge with Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and Marcus (Lionel Boyce) on the dinner desk.
Christina Tosi
Naturally, the previous Momofuku pastry chef, the mastermind behind Milk Bar, and Will Guidara’s partner of is right here too.
Grant Achatz
The chef behind groundbreaking Chicago restaurant Alinea brings slightly levity to the finale’s funeral when he’s accosted by “scorching pastry chef” Luca (Will Poulter), who can’t cease asking him questions on a few of his most well-known dishes.
Wylie DuFresne
The molecular gastronomy titan behind WD50, amongst different eateries.
Anna Posey
The award-winning Chicago pastry chef at Elske, and James Beard finalist in 2024.
Kevin Boehm
A prolific Chicago restaurateur on the helm of Boka Restaurant Group.
Genie Kwon
A James Beard Award winner as co-owner and pastry chef of Kasama, the one Michelin-starred Filipino restaurant on this planet.
Rosio Sanchez
A Chicago-born chef, previously of Noma, who now operates two eating places, Sanchez and Hija de Sanchez, in Copenhagen.
Malcolm Livingston II
The previous Noma pastry chef.
