Top Chef

By Brian Moylan Instead of opening to a buzzing chorus and a heat-seaking Slushie cruising down the hallway, we are introduced to Fabio, who will be the heavily-accented Virgil for our tour through this fresh hell. Apparently this episode is meant to show us what all of our favorite Glee club members are g...

By Jay Barmann No word on whether both Voltaggio brothers (pictured) make it to the finale, which was filmed at Chimney Rock and Rutherford Hill wineries, but this post from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat food blog seems to contain a spoiler about two of the other contestants. (As in past seasons, though,...

By Joshua David Stein The Quickfire challenge was only okay: contestants were forced to cook a television dinner based on a show decided upon by the editors of T.V. Guide, which, apparently, has editors. Only two salient detail warrant mention: Mike Isabella—a font of bullshit, an oasis of crap, the Trevi Fount...

By Allison Waldman S06E10) After last week's restaurant wars, which I found really disappointing, I was hoping for a really tough challenge tonight. As Hemal guessed, having Natalie Portman as a guest judge did turn this main competition into a vegetarian duel. Oooh, yum. Vegetables. More about the kale and m...

By Joshua David Stein At the M Resort kitchen—M Resort! M Resort! I get it, M Resort! It's like a series of small concussions that leave dangerous tau levels by the end of season—the Quickfire challenge is a culinary exquisite corpse. Actually, I think, along with the Mise en Place Relay Race, one of the best chal...

By MisterHippity Finally-also, the guest judge will be the always-likeable Rick Moonen, who probably could have won Top Chef Masters last spring if he hadn't blown his chances by plating his quickfire dish too late. Hopefully, he won't blow tonight's judging assignment by eating too slowly.

By Brian Moylan 3. "The contestants on Top Chef: Las Vegas were asked, 'What's the most annoying thing a customer's ever asked for/ordered?' Kevin Gillespie, Executive Chef and Partner at Woodfire Grill in Atlanta, replied: 'We had a famous musician demand that we not make contact, address her directl...

By Michael Thomas Hastings Admittedly, the man can pull together the occasional impressive dish, and once you get past his egotism -- best signified by his countless rocker-fist salutes to himself -- you might uncover the Fonzie-like charm that lurks somewhere within. But when he's presented with a grocery bag fu...

By MisterHippity Welcome back, commenters! Did you all spend your two-week break from Top Chef wisely? I spent much of mine pondering the value of the many cards which—befitting the Vegas theme—have been played so far this season. Besides, we all know that Tom Colicchio is probably the father. If the baby is...

By Stuart Reb Donald Quickfire: Cook an egg with one hand tied behind your back. Why?!?!?!  These people are world class chefs, why waste their talents doing something from a junior high Fall festival?  What a crock.  At least the judges were adults even if the challenge was childish.

By Stuart Reb Donald Quickfire Challenge: One Color Dish The first challenge was the least lame Quickfire to date.  Each chef was given a color and then informed that they had to prepare a dish using only that color.  It’s cooler than cooking in a dorm room.  I’m still not over that yet.

By Stuart Reb Donald Wednesday’s combatants on Top Chef: Masters included the über-cutting-edge Wylie Dufresne (WD-50, New York City), 2002 Food and Wine Best New Chef recipient Suzanne Tracht (Jar, L.A.), one-time Iron Chef challenger Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot, Chicago) and Elizabeth Fal...

If you're hoping to get on "Top Chef," meanwhile, it's best to probably talk about your struggles to this point, and how being on this sort of show would change your career. The biggest mistake someone can make in a video is coming across as too ...

 CO But there is another sort of reality television that celebrates actual excellence, although — as in "Project Runway" and "Top Chef" — it often surrounds that celebration with boasting, backbiting and interpersonal discord. And so I find "Top Chef ...

 NY Tim Love' (left) and Chris Lee on Bravo's new cooking competition show, 'Top Chef Masters.' Comparing a show like "Hell's Kitchen" to Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" is like comparing a swim in the shark tank to wade in the kiddie pool. ... Review: 'Top Chef Masters' Los Angeles Times

 CA Check out this recipe from "Top Chef" winner Stephanie Izard. Cream together butter and sugar. Add in egg. Mix together dry ingredients and add alternating with milk until just combined. Stir in raspberries. Combine all ingredients with whisk ...

 NY Padma Lakshmi is best known as the taste-tester-in-chief on Bravo's reality cooking show "Top Chef." But these days, the model and TV host is lending her voice to raise awareness about the challenges of living with endometriosis. ...

He was the handsome, charming Italian "Top Chef" contestant "fresh out of the boat," as he put it, who didn't take home top honors but did capture viewers' hearts. Fabio Viviani was recently voted the "fan favorite" of the popular Bravo TV reality show ...

Top Chef" winner Ilan Hall makes up a delicious mac and cheese dish with Kara Mack. Also: Kara Macks Her Own Mac And Cheese fr.truveo.com

 NY About three years ago, Fells passed up an opportunity to audition for the Bravo network program "Top Chef" because she had recently opened the Main Street restaurant. Two years ago, she auditioned for the first season of "Chopped" but wasn't chosen. ...

By Sarah Caron Get your popcorn ready and grab a seat tonight at 10 p.m. as Top Chef New York’s Finale is airing on Bravo. The competition has been fierce, if not a little unusual, this season and now it’s finally time to see the final three go head to head. So, who are they?

By jeremyblachman On Chopped, which I will assume no one else in the universe is watching, four chefs I have never heard of are given a basket of mildly dissonant ingredients and 20 minutes to make an appetizer with them.  Three judges I have never heard of evaluate the dishes and eliminate one chef.  The three r...

By Patsy Kreitman Most people would think that having a chef at home would mean amazing meals, and no need to worry about picky eaters.  Apparently, that’s not the case at home with Tom Colicchio.  According to an interview with the NY Times, his son has a sweet tooth and enjoys fast food with his friends.  Havin...

Series page at Hulu.com Lee Anne from Season One demonstrates how to make frozen food flavorful ... www.dailymotion.com

By Mary Hartney OK! Quickfire. The guest judge is Rocco DiSpirito and while all the cheftestants are more than aware of his fame, none seem too impressed. Their challenge, after Padma wishes them a good morning and we're all quite sure it's more like 5 p.m. when this is filming, is to create a breakfast amuse-b...

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By anna I am scared of the ostrich egg one of the other contestants is messing with. Very scared. Tom Colicchio drops the BOMB on 'em: "you've set American cuisine back 20 years". Eeeep. C'mon Padma! Yell at her for almost making you barf!! anna at 10:04 PM in Food, TV

By jeremyblachman Someone just left a comment asking if I had any thoughts on this season of Top Chef so far.  Well, I'm looking forward to tonight's episode... thought last week's was solid, although I'd read an advance review that called it one of the most emotional episodes of TV all year and I'm not sure I'd go t...

By Karl Klockars DL: I completely agree. I don’t think they used enough Chicago chefs. Even though I have a lot of respect for and I really like Rocco DiSpirito, but to open Chicago with Rocco DiSpirito seemed like…there’s so many amazing chefs here, why couldn’t we really get more of an identity with the city...

By hganesh@pennlive.com Tom and Padma ask each contestant to pick a knife from the knife block. Teams of two will go head-to-head cooking a meal corresponding to the New York ethnic neighborhood on the knives: Brighton Beach (Russian), Astoria (Greek), Little India, Chinatown, Little Italy, Long Island City (M...

here is the recipe: http://recipes.mt.bravotv.com/top_chef/season_4/episode_5_1/chili_shrimp.php.

By Amit Varia Today's Cook the Book recipe, excerpted from Top Chef: The Cookbook, is for Truffle and Cognac Cream Macaroni and Cheese. To follow the recipe exactly you'll have to splurge on the Perigord black truffles, but you could also omit ...

By Tempo My main quibbles haven’t changed since Bravo debuted “Top Chef” a few years ago: Tom Colicchio, who acts as a coach and a judge,  is a somewhat cold and aloof presence. Host Padma Lakshmi has gotten less robotic over time, but I’m still not sure what qualifies her to be a food-competition jud...

By YumSugar FitSugar; Inspired by his "Top Chef" appearance, chef Eric Ripert offers his recipe for Grilled Trout with Sauce Vierge and Potato and Leek. - Secret Sauce; No matter how you put it, peanut butter and chocolate chips always works, ...

By flipit(flipit75@gmail.com) The next morning, they are all brought to a huge hangar at the airport where Guest Judge Airplane Food awaits them. How many of us have wanted to beat this guy to a pulp over the years? Now's your chance, chefs! Kill him!! Well, the fight is all gone from the contestants because A. they didn't get...

Former Top Chef contestant Josie Smith-Malave who was featured in the season 2 Bravo TV show and is openly gay, was ...

By flipit(flipit75@gmail.com) Scar angles her right arm for the camera at least four times as she explains today's Quickfire Challenge. Guys, beauty is only skin deep, got it? Hair toss camera flirt giggle stutter giggle. Today's Quickfire Challenge will involve the most widely used, time saving culinary innovation o...

By Jane McGivney Lowest of the Quickfire: Apparently, the chefs are cooking for some sort of dinner club. Which involves a hilarious set-up of Padma, Tom, Ted Allen (WHERE IS GAIL SIMMONS?!) sitting at a dinner table with the dinner club who are all adorned in weird sashes and medals. Huh?

Writer Salman Rushdie, recently knighted in Britain, and his wife, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, are divorcing after three years of marriage. Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage, an a...

By TMZ Staff Filed under: Break-UpsTMZ.com: "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi and "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie are getting divorced. Holy shiite!A rep for Rushdie released a statement saying, "Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end... Read mor...

Rumours that Salman Rushdies marriage to model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi is in trouble gathered storm after she was spotted partying with another man.

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By Andy Dale Levitski, the 34-year-old gay chef from Chicago who is currently competing in Top Chef: Miami, gives an interview to the Chicago Tribune in which he talks about Chicago cuisine and if sexuality has any bearing on culinary ...

The judges, Tom, Padma, Gail Simmons from Food & Wine and guest judge (hey, where's Ted Allen?) Anthony Bourdain are disappointed by by Howie's poor time management and found Clay's boar and scorpion fish cornbread dressing inedible.

By Jane McGivney THE QUICKFIRE: As the chefs are standing around meeting each other, talking and eating, Padma and Tom surprise them. Tre wins. Swoon! Anthony Bourdain tells him he wants to take him out and get him "savage drunk." Is no one safe from Tre's charms?

By Jon Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New American-style restaurant's inventiveness, use of fresh lo...

By flipit(flipit75@mac.com) Ilan stops talking and there is another long pause. Marcel tells them to just spit it out and Elia says "come on, Marcel. You know you cheated many times." So there it is. The Judges are pissed. They want examples. Elia mentions her pot being moved, but she starts to choke on burnt feet and just stops...

 MA - Just ask Marcel Vigneron, a contestant on the second season of Bravo's Top Chef, who was left with an inch-long scar over his left eye after a recent ...

By flipit(flipit75@mac.com) Since Sam won the Quickfire, he gets first dibs on course order. To sweeten the deal, whichever proteins he uses can't be used again through the entire meal. The editing gets weird here. It makes it look like Sam is within earshot of Marcel's lobster soup brainstorm with Elia right before he an...

By Jeremy We feel that it's time to remind folks of our motivation in writing these short reviews of Top Chef, a fine cooking-based reality show on Bravo. Sam, Mike, and Ilan went for a rustic-yet-modern Italian place; Marcel, Elia, and Cliff went for puffed-up diner food.