After the bloodbath of last week’s restaurant wars, the cheftestants started this episode with a well-deserved lazy morning. Michael V. sharpened the knife he planned to use to slit his brother’s throat. Jennifer blow-dried her hair after a long night of flagellating herself with a balloon whisk (“Broken sauce? Bland trout? You! Stupid! Idiot!”). Robin [...]
Bravo has ordered a second season of its “Top Chef” spin-off series, “Top Chef Masters.”
Food journalist Kelly Choi returns as host, with restaurant critic Gael Greene, culinary expert James Oseland and critic Jay Rayner as judges. “Top Chef” regular Gail Simmons also will serve as a judge.
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It’s halfway through the season, which is perfect timing for the skeletons to come out of the closet and the doubt to start settling in. For starters, Michael V. dropped the news that he’s actually a father to two daughters — a 5-year-old and a 9-year-old, who we know are adorable from a portrait that [...]
Tom Colicchio was obviously thrilled to hear that his hit TV show “Top Chef” garnered two Emmy nominations Thursday morning — “It feels great!” — but the award-winning chef admits he’s a bit preoccupied these days: his wife is expecting a baby!
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This season captures Sin City’s high stakes and high rollers in addition to exploring what Vegas has to offer beyond the Strip. Some of the top names in food, movies and entertainment including Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Natalie Portman, Daniel Boulud, Penn & Teller, Hubert Keller, Laurent Tourondel, Tim Love, Michelle Bernstein, Tyler Florence, Charlie [...]
Our competitors are all wildly successful restaurateurs with buckets of awards. They’ll compete in heats, with one advancing from each group of four to the champion’s round. The winner of this round gets $10,000 for the charity of his choice.
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Top Chef Masters will premiere on Wednesday, June 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. This spin-off turns the tables pitting pit 24 world-renowned chefs against each other — each episode, money will be at stake, with the winners of eliminations being awarded cash donations for their charities. The chef that makes it to the end will [...]
It’s down to the final four on this season of Top Chef in an all out New Orleans style showdown! Charismatic chef and NOLA native Emeril Lagasse brings a little bit of “BAM!” to the Top Chef kitchen. When the chefs feel the threat of each other creeping up on them, will they be able [...]
Bravo is cooking up something special for Top Chef foodies.
The cooking competition’s head judge, Tom Colicchio, is helping to produce the cable channel’s new spinoff show, Top Chef Masters, which will feature a smorgasbord of 24 (as yet unnamed) world-renowned kitchen-based artists competing in a buffet of challenges every week. The winner will be declared [...]
It’s the last chance to impress the judges before the finale in New Orleans and things get heated as notable chef/innovator Wylie Dufrense puts the remaining five chef’testants through the “Quickfire” ringer to impress him with their own take on an inventive dish. When the chefs must cook for Wylie and famed author Jacques Pepin [...]
An unsensational seviche sent Southern boy Jeff McInnis back to the beach at the end of last night’s episode of Top Chef.
I caught up with Jeff earlier today on Florida’s South Beach, where he’s chef de cuisine at the Ritz-Carlton’s DiLido Beach Club, to get the lowdown on his elimination. Like a lot of fans, [...]
Ariane won a previous elimination with lamb, so thought she was good to go this time. But with sloppy butchering and a heavy marinade, she ruined this baby lamb. Dan Barber didn’t understand why she tried to tenderize the lamb, because “baby lamb by definition is tender.” While the judges were frustrated that her teammates [...]
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