Yonatan Roshfeld (; born 10 January 1969) is an Israeli chef known for his work on television. He was a judge on the television cooking competition ''

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'' from the second season to the sixth. He opened the Captain Curry Indian food stall in Sarona Market. He was the food critic in the first Israeli season of '' The Next Restaurant'' TV show. He became a partner in the Cafeteria restaurant in the Gindi TLV compound in Tel Aviv and opened a delicatessen in

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. He is perhaps best known as the chef of the Herbert Samuel restaurant in Tel Aviv, which later closed and

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venues with the same name were opened in other places. Roshfeld was born in the

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kibbutz in southern Israel in 1969; his father was a baker, and his mother was a factory worker. He was a talented musician as a youth and in the

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and studied at a New York school. During his musical studies he was drawn to cooking and went to study in France. At first, he was at

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but could not connect with the heavy cooking there. He then moved to

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, studying under two-star Michelin chef Jacques Chibois.Article on Jacques Chibois visiting Yonatan Roshfeld
from 2008 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roshfeld, Yonatan Living people Israeli television chefs 1969 births People from Ruhama