In June, chef Kwon Sung-jun – better known as Napoli Matfia, winner of the first season of Netflix’s hit show Culinary Class Wars – closed Via Toledo Pasta Bar, his famously intimate six-seat restaurant in Seoul.
There was no massive party, no cakes or balloons to celebrate the end of an era after five years of being booked solid with a waiting list that stretched for months – and included celebrities from all over the world – but he did bring a piece of his first restaurant home with him.
“There was this stray cat at Via Toledo that I had been feeding for years,” says the 31-year-old chef. “On the last night after the last shift ever, I brought her to my house.
“She is the only legacy of the restaurant,” he laughs.
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