Ever wondered where celebrity chefs retreat to when the camera stops rolling? Step inside the private kitchens and living spaces of the culinary world’s biggest names.

From Gordon Ramsay's Los Angeles mansion to Mary Berry's English country home, we explore the places where TV's most iconic chefs unwind, entertain and cook. 

Click or scroll on to take a tour of the fabulous homes of our favourite culinary stars...

Known for her eponymous daytime talk show, which ran for 17 seasons, chef and TV personality Rachael Ray has built an impressive lifestyle brand that encompasses kitchenware and homeware lines, a dog food business and a production company. 

Her fortune reportedly stands at around $100 million (£74m) and Rachael has put some of her earnings towards creating her dream home in Italy under the Tuscan sun.

Around 2018, Rachael and her husband, actor and producer John Cusimano, viewed a piece of land in the Italian region of Tuscany. The site was home to two dilapidated stables, but the couple was enamoured by the beauty of the surrounding landscapes and bought the property.

Their ambitious renovation of the estate was finally completed in 2021 and they shared their journey with viewers in the reality TV show Rachael Ray's Italian Dream Home.

Split across two buildings, the home features a large kitchen where Rachael films her cooking show Rachael Ray in Tuscany, a piano room for John and an array of beautifully renovated living areas.

When Rachael and John aren't hosting guests at the villa, they stay in the estate's cosy annexe apartment with their dog, Bella. The snug space includes a small but well-equipped kitchen with a range cooker, a sitting area with an open hearth, a gym and a spacious double bedroom. 

Elsewhere in the main house, this bedroom features a beautiful sleigh bed, modelled by Bella, along with rustic pine floors and shuttered windows. 

Outside, the property's acreage is sprawling and encompasses a large circular driveway, freshwater swimming pool, bocce court, dining pergola and outdoor pizza oven, as well as olive trees and a vineyard.

Among the first chefs to make French cuisine accessible to American home cooks, Julia Child became a household name following the success of her debut TV show The French Chef in 1963.

While Julia's primary home for the majority of her life was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the TV personality's time at culinary school in France left a lasting impression. Consequently, Julia and her husband Paul kept a cottage in Provence that they would retreat to. 

Situated on the Côte d'Azur, Julia and Paul built the house in 1965 on an old potato patch owned by fellow chef Simone Beck. Julia collaborated with Simone on their first cookbook, the seminal Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

The endearing property with its shuttered windows and ivy-covered walls is pictured here in images supplied by TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, taken when the house went up for sale for the first time in 2015.

Named La Pitchoune, which translates to "the little thing" in Provençal, Paul designed the 1,500-square-foot (139sqm) house to resemble the couple's Massachusetts home. 

The property's compact floor plan includes a kitchen and a combined living and dining room with a wood-burning fireplace, plus three ensuite bedrooms. Outside, there's a swimming pool and a self-contained one-bedroom annexe with its own kitchenette and lounge.

Julia's original appliances are pictured in the kitchen here, which features wood cabinetry, emerald green wall tiles and an exposed beam overhead. Paul and his brother painted the outlines of Julia's cooking equipment and tools on pegboards above the counters, an endearing detail that's still visible today.

The house was sold in 2015 to buyers intent on preserving Julia's legacy. It's now run as an Airbnb and cooking school. 

Fiery Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay has built up a global culinary empire comprising a multimillion-dollar restaurant business and numerous hit TV shows, including Hell's Kitchen and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

With his estimated fortune of around £162.5 million ($220m), the TV personality has amassed an impressive collection of properties spanning the UK and US. The Ramsay family's main base is in London, however, they spend plenty of time at their luxurious home in Los Angeles...

During an episode of cookery travel show Gordon, Gino and Fred: American Road Trip in 2020, Gordon invited cameras into his 8,200-square-foot (762sqm) mansion in Bel Air. 

The home is said to have five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a guesthouse. However, the most impressive feature has to be the one-acre (0.4ha) backyard, which has a swimming pool, Jacuzzi and barbecue terrace. 

Here, co-hosts Gino D'Acampo and Fred Sirieix chat with Gordon and his mum in the mansion's streamlined kitchen. The space includes a vast three-door fridge inset into a white metro-tiled wall and a large marble-topped preparation island fitted with a hob. 

The neutral aesthetic continues throughout the luxurious home, from the double-height hallway to the spa-style bathrooms and state-of-the-art gym with mirrored walls. 

Meanwhile, among Gordon's UK property collection is this breathtaking coastal home in the village of Rock in Cornwall. However, it didn't always look like this. The TV chef bought the estate in 2015 for £4.4 million ($3.3m), before demolishing the existing 1920s-era home to build this modern masterpiece.

Fittingly, the contemporary home features two kitchens, as well as four ensuite bedrooms and two terraces. Outside, there's a dramatic infinity swimming pool and a boat store.

Dubbed the Queen of Baking, Mary Berry is a beloved English cookery writer and broadcaster with an extensive on-screen career. Most notably, she's been a judge on The Great British Bake Off and has also presented a long list of her own hit cooking shows.

Mary used her home of over 30 years in Buckinghamshire in the southeast of England as a filming location for several of her cookery programmes. However, she sold the house in 2019 to downsize to a smaller but no less impressive property...

Mary bought her current home in nearby Oxfordshire in 2017 but spent around 18 months perfecting it before she moved, bringing in an architect, kitchen designer and interior designer to oversee its extension and redecoration. 

The property's beautiful gardens are pictured here in an episode of Mary Berry's Foolproof Cooking. Like her previous home, the country house is the backdrop for many of her TV shows.

While it may be a step down in square footage, the four-bedroom home isn't short of space or amenities. There's an indoor swimming pool, a tennis court, a gym and a separate cottage for hosting guests.

Mary's kitchen makes a regular appearance on her cooking programmes. The beautiful scheme features cream cabinetry, grey and black speckled worktops and a three-oven Aga range cooker. 

Here, open shelving in a contrasting rich navy hue adds a modern twist to the traditional kitchen, which is open to the light-filled dining area. 

The home's external spaces were given equally thoughtful consideration. When the property was extended, a terrace was constructed and a greenhouse installed, while six raised flowerbeds were added to create a vegetable garden for the green-fingered chef.

Once the personal chef to three French heads of state, Jacques Pépin has led a storied culinary career. He's authored over 30 books and starred in numerous cooking shows, including the iconic PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, in which he collaborated with lifelong friend and esteemed chef Julia Child. 

Despite his star-studded career, Jacques has lived in the same charming, rural property in Madison, Connecticut since 1976.

In 2024, the chef opened the doors of his home to broadcaster KQED. A former brick factory from the 1920s, the grey, gabled farmhouse is shrouded in trees and stretches across four acres (1.6ha).

The home cost Jacques and his late wife Gloria $21,000 back in the 1970s – that's around $118,000 (£87k) in today's money.

The property has undergone numerous expansions over the decades, including the construction of a studio with a filming kitchen.

The backdrop for most of Jacques' cooking tutorials, the kitchen is a light-filled space framed by sash windows. It features a preparation island, hob, oven and deep farmhouse-style sink. 

Unique touches include intricate, hand-painted tiling and a characterful timber-clad wall where the chef stores his pans. There are also bookshelves filled with binders of illustrated menus that Jacques has produced to remember all of his dinner parties over the decades. 

A talented artist as well as a culinary legend, the chef's art studio is located above the filming kitchen. The colourful room is lined with weathered blue bookcases and prints of his whimsical artworks, some of which are inspired by his childhood in France.

Jacques has been painting for more than 50 years and sales of his original works partially fund free cooking classes for people facing barriers to employment.

American TV chef Ina Garten, also known as the Barefoot Contessa, shot to fame with her Emmy-winning cooking series on the Food Network. The star's moniker came from the name of the specialty food store she owned in East Hampton, New York. The Barefoot Contessa brand has gone on to spawn cookbooks and numerous TV shows, landing Ina with a fortune of $60 million (£44.4m). 

Despite the fame she's achieved over the decades, Ina has never strayed far from East Hampton and continues to call it home. 

Ina and her husband Jeffrey live in this picturesque shingle-style property, flanked by manicured lawns and ornate gardens.

The couple bought the house in the 1990s but quickly found they needed more space. For eight-week stretches throughout the year, the home was taken over by film crews for Ina's cooking show. When they got the chance to purchase the field next door in 2006, they jumped at it. On the site, they constructed a rustic barn that houses Ina's studio kitchen. 

The chef welcomed the BBC into the 2,000-square-foot (186sqm) barn back in 2023. A vaulted ceiling lined with rustic beams carves out an impressive space for the test kitchen, which was inspired by the kitchen in her primary home next door. 

The barn also includes a meticulously organised pantry, a reading room and a long, Swedish trestle table, where the chef films episodes of her popular celebrity interview series Be My Guest.

The barn's beautiful, light-filled reading room is pictured here. Lined with industrial, Crittall-style windows, the space features pillowy orange sofas, shearling lounge chairs and a patterned ottoman. 

The room was specifically designed to showcase Ina's beloved cookbook collection, with walls of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves holding her favourite volumes.

Australian chef, restaurateur and TV personality Curtis Stone trained under culinary greats including Marco Pierre White before his breakthrough TV show Take Home Chef made him a household name. Alongside his restaurants and on-screen work, the Melbourne-born star also has a range of kitchenware and cookware.

With a long list of business ventures, it's no surprise that the chef is worth $25 million (£18.5m). However, Curtis has invested some of his fortune in a property that's now at the heart of his culinary empire...

Curtis bought Four Stones Farm in Southern California's Agoura Hills for $4.7 million (£3.5m) in 2021. He was struggling to find an adequate filming studio for his Home Shopping Network cookery demos during the pandemic and the 1950s farmhouse was the ideal solution. The property is now the ultimate culinary production space.

While the Stone family's primary residence is nearby, Curtis, his wife Lindsay and their two sons all work at the property, making it something of a second home.

The farmhouse has a choice of cooking locations, including the main studio kitchen, which features navy cabinetry, marble counters and a full camera rig. Elsewhere, there's an additional country-style kitchen that's used as a preparation space.

Outside, the 55-acre (22ha) estate is home to a hillside of grapevines that Curtis cultivates, as well as a beautiful outdoor patio with a grill, which is also used for filming. 

Here, the chef is pictured in the farmhouse's rustic living room with Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone podcast guests, actor Teri Hatcher and Alexander James of the Backstreet Boys.

The space features a rustic open brick hearth, vaulted whitewashed ceilings and dark wood floors. When he's not in the kitchen, Curtis often uses the inviting room for interviews and recording videos.

British chef Jamie Oliver has made quite a name for himself on the international food scene thanks to a string of successful cookbooks, product lines, restaurants and TV shows. Among the most notable was Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which followed the chef's attempts to improve the eating habits of residents in the US state of West Virginia.

Away from the spotlight, Jamie prefers a quieter pace of life with his family in the beautiful English stately home he bought for £6 million ($8.1m) in 2019. 

The impressive 12-bedroom home is located on 70 acres (28ha) of land in the southeast of England in Finchingfield, Essex. Known as Spains Hall, the property dates back to the 16th century, though it also incorporates sections of a 15th-century home that once stood on the site. 

Like the centuries of residents before him, Jamie has made numerous renovations to Spains Hall, including restoring the attic and the home's wood-fired oven and constructing a traditional timber greenhouse for growing produce.

During the pandemic, the chef gave viewers a glimpse inside the historic home when he filmed part of his TV series, Keep Cooking and Carry On, at the property. Rather than using the home's kitchen to film, Jamie converted the larder, which had more light, into a makeshift cooking station.

Pictured here during filming, you can see the rustic exposed brickwork across the back wall, sensitively framed by open shelving units.

Elsewhere, the home includes a great hall, a games room and two drawing rooms. As you can see from these photos of the family shared by Jamie's wife Jools, dark wood panelling, hardwood floors, antique radiators and towering original windows decorate the interior.

The grounds feature an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts and fishing lakes, as well as manicured gardens. The chef even hosts a cookery school at the property, where participants can pick fresh fruit, veg and herbs from the walled garden. 

Spanish chef José Andrés is widely credited with popularising tapas and Spanish cuisine in the US, a feat that's amassed him a fortune of around $50 million (£37m). Alongside helming a string of successful restaurants, he's fronted numerous TV shows, including reality cooking series Yes, Chef! alongside co-host Martha Stewart, and founded the World Central Kitchen, a charity that delivers meals to those in crisis.

Outside of his busy work schedule, José enjoys downtime with his family at their long-time home in Bethesda, Maryland.

The home is a sleek, contemporary structure encircled by trees. Clad in white stucco and utilising glass, wood and stone in its design, architect David Jameson built the property in 2005. José bought the home a year later for just under $2.7 million, which is around $4.3 million (£3.2m) today when adjusted for inflation. 

In this aerial image, you can see rows of raised flowerbeds in the grounds where the family grows produce including potatoes, carrots and cauliflower. 

The home's interior channels the same modern material palette as the exterior.

In the library nook, wooden bookshelves span an entire wall and rich timber flooring lines the space. José and his wife, Patricia Fernandez de la Cruz, are pictured here in front of the bookcases, reclining on a lime-green velvet armchair.

The chef has been known to use the library as a backdrop for interviews and social media videos.

José's state-of-the-art kitchen is part of a large, broken-plan living room, zoned by sections of floor-to-ceiling timber cabinetry. The preparation island is where the chef films most of his cookery videos. On the left, he's captured cooking alongside American chef Alice Waters, while on the right, he's pictured with his daughter. 

The space benefits from plenty of natural light from the expansive picture windows, which frame breathtaking views of the woodlands.

English TV chef and presenter Nigella Lawson is known for her intimate, personal cookery shows and succession of best-selling cookbooks that emphasise the joy of food.

Following her high-profile divorce from businessman Charles Saatchi, the culinary star and her two children relocated to a beautiful London townhouse in 2013. Nigella is thought to have purchased the property for £5 million, which is around £7 million ($9.5m) when adjusted for today's inflation.

The property is located in the affluent London borough of Chelsea and situated on a mews – a historic row of homes converted from stables.

However, Nigella's townhouse is far from traditional. The chef made headlines when the exterior got a playful pink facelift back in 2015, a colourful flourish that sets the scene for the home's whimsical interior...  

Inside, the property's kitchen is a patchwork of vibrant hues. The turquoise Aga range cooker is a centrepiece of the room, accentuated by a beautiful mirrored splashback. A collection of pans is suspended above the stovetop, while the sink unit is encased in bright pink cabinetry.

Nigella shared a photo of the newly decorated kitchen with her Facebook followers back in 2015, writing: "Two words: pink sink! Another happy-making one: mine!" It's clear that the chef relished making the space her own.

Elsewhere in the home, a floor-to-ceiling bookcase carves out a cosy reading nook in this open-plan living space, flanked by a weathered leather chair.

After leaks plagued the home, Nigella was granted permission in 2022 to replace the vaulted conservatory pictured on the left with an all-glass design. 

On the right, French doors lead out to the home's enchanting courtyard garden, where a fuchsia bistro set sits nestled beneath a tree canopy.

Acclaimed Mexican chef Enrique Olvera has revolutionised the cuisine of his home country thanks to his experimental cooking that reimagines traditional dishes through a modern lens. While he trained in New York, the two-Michelin-star chef returned to Mexico City to open his restaurant Pujol. 

Away from the kitchen, Enrique finds respite at his architectural weekend home, Casa O, situated in Valle de Bravo to the west of Mexico City. However, he also owns an apartment in the city.

Enrique's apartment, known as Casa TEO, is situated in Mexico City's Polanco neighbourhood and reflects the minimalist ethos that defines Casa O. 

The building where the home is located holds a special place in the chef's heart. It was the original location of Pujol, the restaurant that propelled him to fame. When the eatery moved to a larger venue, he couldn't bear to let the building go. Instead, he turned it into a living space to host his friends and visiting chefs. 

While Enrique may not usually reside at the property, he designed the scheme to mirror his aesthetic. The apartment is intended to be a collaborative space that fosters creativity – there's a library that houses a collection of books on gastronomy that have inspired the chef's restaurant team. 

The kitchen pairs refined parquet flooring with simple white cabinetry and a streamlined range cooker. Characterful ceramics and kitchenware impart personality without detracting from the room's minimalism.

There's a total of two bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms in the apartment, each simply decorated. In this space, an open built-in wooden unit cleverly accommodates a small wardrobe alongside a desk and storage. 

While Casa TEO was originally designed for visiting chefs, Enrique now rents the apartment out on Airbnb, offering guests a chance to immerse themselves in Mexico City's rich culinary scene.

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