Four Seasons Yachts Adds Five Michelin-Starred Chefs for 2027

Four Seasons Yachts is turning its 2027 Chef-in-Residence programme into a travelling fine-dining calendar, with five chefs from Michelin-starred Four Seasons restaurants joining selected voyages aboard Four Seasons I. The programme spans both Mediterranean and Caribbean itineraries, giving guests access to chefs normally tied to destination restaurants thousands of miles apart.

Five chefs, five very different restaurant cultures

The line-up includes Guillaume Galliot of three-Michelin-starred Caprice in Hong Kong and Bertrand Noeureuil of two-starred L'Orangerie in Paris. Yoric Tièche of Le Cap at Cap-Ferrat, Guillaume Bracaval of est in Tokyo and Evan Neumann of Auro in Napa Valley each bring one-starred restaurants and a different regional vocabulary to the programme.

Menus travel with the voyage

Rather than staging a single gala dinner, Four Seasons says the chefs will create exclusive menus and new culinary experiences across dining venues during their featured sailings. That gives the programme more depth than a celebrity-chef appearance because guests encounter each chef's approach as part of the wider journey.

Yachting and destination dining increasingly overlap

Luxury travel has moved well beyond the old distinction between the yacht, the hotel and the restaurant, with the same clients expecting each part of the trip to deliver a distinct experience. Four Seasons I is designed around that convergence, using culinary programming to make the vessel itself a destination rather than simply transportation between ports.

Food becomes part of the itinerary

For SYG readers, the strongest angle is not the Michelin count but the way dining is being folded into voyage design alongside ports, wellness and entertainment. It mirrors what happens on private yachts, where chefs increasingly shape the character of a charter or ownership season as strongly as the route itself.