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‘TOP CHEF’ Recap

This week on Top Chef, we separate the men from the boys and see who really knows what football and tailgating means. The show begins with the lasting hostilities over Zoi’s departure. It’s a contest folks!
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Pack up your knives, Zoi

It was the lack of simple salt and pepper that ended Zoi Antonitsas run on Top Chef. Her seasoning was off on the pickled mushrooms and salad that she made for the earth team’s beef carpaccio dish. The diners at the Meals on Wheels event agreed with the judges that it was the worst [...]

It was a jungle on ‘Top Chef’ Chicago

This week’s episode opened with Valerie and Stephanie exercising and chatting. They used to work together in a Chicago restaurant. Unfortunately for Valerie, she didn’t come up with something to redeem her olive blinis. Any decent chef knows that blinis have to be served immediately after they are made. Valerie also knew it, but didn’t [...]

FIFTEEN ASPIRING CHEFS ENTER THE FIRE

Winner Receives Title of “Executive Chef” at Gordon Ramsay’s New Restaurant, “The London West Hollywood”
A new crop of 15 wanna-be chefs find out if they can take the heat when renowned chef Gordon Ramsay serves up the fourth course of his sizzling unscripted series HELL’S KITCHEN, premiering Tuesday, April 1 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on [...]

Meet the ‘Top Chef: Chicago’ Chef’testants

“Top Chef: Chicago,” the fourth season of Bravo’s popular culinary competition show, will debut on Wednesday, March 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with a fresh crop of 16 rising chefs. Returning are host/judge Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio, judge Gail Simmons and judge Ted Allen.
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BRAVO Cooks Up ‘TOP CHEF’ Mobile Game

Cable network Bravo is extending its restaurant-based reality series “Top Chef” with a mobile phone game that lets users work their way up wirelessly from dishwasher to five-star chef.
The “Top Chef Challenge” game, designed by mobile content firm LimeLife, was scheduled to be promoted on last night’s “Top Chef” holiday special episode.
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Two charged in ‘Top Chef’ attack

Two women have been charged in the case of a former contestant on Bravo’s “Top Chef” who said she was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs over Labor Day weekend.
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Tre returns for Top Chef Holiday Special

South Florida chef Norm Van Aken let the secret slip (actually, shared it willingly) during an interview about Tavern N Town, his new Key West restaurant. Van Aken, a guest judge during Season 3, got the call to return as a judge in this holiday showdown.
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‘Top Chef: Miami’

Based on their collective work on Top Chef: Miami this season, if I had to have one contestant make a meal for me, I absolutely know who it would be. And on Wednesday (Oct. 3) night’s season finale, that contestant was actually crowned the season’s winner - Yay Hung!!
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Hell’s Kitchen 3 Winner Rock Harper Begins New Career

Chef “Rock” Harper arrives today as head chef at Terra Verde Italian restaurant at Green Valley Ranch Resort after recently being crowned winner of FOX TV’s hugely popular reality show, “Hell’s Kitchen 3,” hosted by acclaimed chef Gordon Ramsay. Rock outlasted 11 other competitors during the culinary boot camp to earn the coveted title of [...]

Man Charged in Attack on ‘Top Chef’ Star

A homeless man was charged with participating in an anti-gay attack on a former “Top Chef” reality show contestant outside a bar, police said.Matthew W. Walli was in a group of about 12 people involved in a confrontation with chef Josie Smith-Malave, who is a lesbian, and three other women who had just been thrown [...]

Ex-`Top Chef’ Contestant Is Attacked

A former contestant on Bravo’s “Top Chef” was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said.
Josie Smith-Malave, who was featured on the second season of the reality show, was among a small group of women who were asked to leave a Sea Cliff bar over Labor Day weekend, lawyer Yetta Kurland said Tuesday.
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