The Food Industry in Nigeria is growing and becoming a billion Naira industry as consumers are willing to spend more on food. We're literally watching it grow before our eyes with the birth of fine dining restaurants, celebrity chefs and local dishes being refined and redefined

While we have celebrity Chefs who have left a mark in the food industry like Chef Fregz, Chef Stone and many more, below are the next gen chefs are predicted to be the next best thing and would usher us into the next phase

1. Chef Cupid: "The Star boy of Red Dish Chronicles", it's predicted that he's going to be the next celebrity chef of our generation as people are not only going to pay for his food but also his presence as he knows how to manipulate social media to do his bidding. An instructor at RDC and a pastry addict, this hipster chef has trained close to a 100 chefs and it's estimated that a whopping 35% of the new age Nigerian chefs would have learnt under him

2. Chef Elegbede: "The O.G Nigerian food ambassador". Trained in the U.S and having allegedly interned in a Michelin star restaurant, this young chef is on a goal to put Nigerian dishes on the international map. His mother was an international chef and that has been his biggest inspiration so far. He's been described as the Davido/Burna of the culinary world because while his counterparts are busy conquering Nigeria, he's busy conquering the world

3. Chef Seun: "The Pasta Chef". A protege of Chef Tiyan and Chef Benedict, he's a tutor at UCCA and has trained more than 60 chefs. Obsessed with pasta, he's found a way to marry Italy and Nigeria and their love children are his pasta recipes

4. Chef Sanni: "The Philanthropy Chef". The first chef in Nigeria to own a food truck thus inspiring others, his forte is redefining the everyday Nigerian dish as his dishes tend to reintroduce you to dishes that you think you know. Sources disclose that he spends most of his proceeds on feeding the kids in his immediate environment as he can't stomach seeing people starve

5. Chef Mide: "The new kid on the block". Trained in classic French cooking, this young Nigerian chef is based in Finland and is subtly reeling the hearts of the Finnish community by winning their pallets with Nigerian delicacies one plate at a time. When he's done conquering Europe he plans to return to Nigeria to disrupt the food scene.

I'm Famakin Opeyemi, the biggest food critic in Nigeria.
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