Founding Curator · Editor-in-Chief
Fredrik Filipsson
Dubai · Miami · Stockholm
Business strategist, serial entrepreneur, and the editorial voice behind Restaurants for Kings. Fredrik has dined in the world's most consequential rooms — from pre-deal dinners in the Gulf to post-signing celebrations in Manhattan — across 40+ countries and 500+ personally reviewed restaurants. His curatorial focus is the intersection of power dining, occasion alignment, and hospitality as business instrument.
Specialties: Close a Deal · Impress Clients · Gulf dining · Nordic restaurants · Japanese omakase.
Founding Curator — Europe
Morten Andersen
Barcelona · London · Stockholm
European-based curator with a specialist command of Southern Europe, the Nordic dining renaissance, and London's international restaurant landscape. Morten brings the discernment of someone who knows the difference between a restaurant that is merely excellent and one that is exactly right for the moment — which is the only distinction that matters.
Specialties: First Date · Proposal · Southern European fine dining · Nordic kitchens · London classics.
Contributing Editor — Americas
Diego Marín
Mexico City · Austin · Buenos Aires
Covers the Americas end to end — from the smoke houses of central Texas to the parrillas of Buenos Aires and the modern kitchens of Mexico City and Lima. Diego reviews for fire, sourcing, and the line between a room that performs heritage and one that lives it.
Specialties: Team Dinner · Birthday · Texas barbecue · Steakhouses · Latin American fine dining.
Editor-at-Large — Europe
Lena Sørensen
London · Copenhagen
Covers Europe's fine-dining capitals from a base split between London and Copenhagen, with a particular eye for the Nordic kitchens that reset the conversation and the immigrant rooms — Chinese, Levantine, South Asian — producing some of the continent's most exacting cooking.
Specialties: First Date · Anniversary · Nordic cuisine · London dining · Wine-led rooms.
Paris Bureau Chief — France & Mediterranean
Anaïs Laurent
Paris
Runs the Paris bureau, covering France and the wider Mediterranean — the city's bistronomie movement, its enduring grande-cuisine rooms, and the Catalan and Italian kitchens along the southern coast. Reviews with a Parisian's impatience for the merely competent.
Specialties: First Date · Proposal · Paris bistronomie · French grande cuisine · Napoletana pizza.