Apple TV has renewed Gordon Ramsay's Michelin docuseries for eight more episodes. Here's why the chase makes such good viewing, and such a good dining itinerary.
A sandwich shop that turns into a Michelin-starred dining room after dark is exactly the sort of plot twist a fiction writer would get laughed out of the room for. It’s also real, and it’s one reason Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars has just been renewed for a third season on Apple TV.
The announcement landed on 5 November 2026, right on the heels of the season two finale. Knife Edge season three will run for eight episodes, with Gordon Ramsay returning as executive producer and Studio Ramsay Global producing. Jesse Burgess, the food and travel expert from Topjaw, stays on as host.
A year in the life of a Star
The format is simple and quietly brutal. The cameras get exclusive access across the full yearlong Michelin Guide season and follow elite chefs at some of the world’s most unusual and celebrated restaurants. At the end, each one finds out whether they will win, maintain or lose a Star. Some are chasing a first. Others are reaching for a second, or for that elusive third.
What keeps it from being a cooking show with a trophy at the end is the access. The series gets inside the global Michelin awards and offers what its makers call a chef’s-eye view of the road to recognition. Burgess, for his part, says he’s “constantly surprised by the extraordinary people and stories we discover,” and that for the chefs involved, a Star “can represent years of sacrifice, obsession and an enormous amount of hard work.”
Ramsay, never a man to undersell, compares the experience to “climbing aboard an epic roller coaster.” His advice to viewers: “You’d better hold on tight, because it’s one hell of a ride!”
The critics are on board
The numbers back the enthusiasm. Season one earned a perfect 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated for Factual Entertainment at the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards and won Best Popular Factual Programme at the 2026 Broadcast Digital Awards. Reviewers have called it “appointment TV,” and praised Burgess’s “signature warmth and curiosity.” One described season two as getting fans “even closer to the people behind the restaurants.”
That warmth matters. Fine dining on screen can feel like looking through glass: beautiful, expensive, a bit remote. A host who asks what’s at stake for a kitchen team, not only what’s on the plate, takes the glass away.
Your next reservation, pre-researched
The series is also a handy travel brief. Season two alone covered a lot of ground. It featured Evvai, Latin America’s first ever three-Star restaurant. It visited Gareth Ward’s two-Star Ynyshir, a destination restaurant in rural Wales that the series describes as otherworldly. And it took in Troubadour in California, the daytime sandwich shop with a one-Star dining room after dark.
That’s a three-stop itinerary spanning Latin America, the Welsh countryside and the California coast, with wildly different dress codes. It’s the kind of range that sends people to their calendars to see what a long weekend could look like. For anyone who plans trips around a table, the show works as a lookbook of where serious cooking is happening right now.
Where season three will go hasn’t been announced. The pattern so far suggests the show likes to pair big-name addresses with unexpected ones, and it doesn’t limit itself to one country or one kind of room. Wherever the cameras land, the tension will be the same. Stars are given in a single moment, but they’re earned over a whole year of services.
The team behind the pass
Behind the camera, the executive producers are Ramsay, Lisa Edwards, Lorraine Charker-Phillips and Jill Greenwood. James Callum is series director. Studio Ramsay Global is a Fox Entertainment Company.
Seasons one and two are streaming now on Apple TV, which is available in more than 170 countries and regions. A subscription costs $14.99 a month, with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. That leaves time to catch up before the next eight episodes arrive, and to decide which restaurant gets your own tentative booking.
Via Apple TV Press
