Top Chef

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.

 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

The third expert, Candice Kumai works as a special events Chef at the Ritz-Carlton and has her own catering company. She was professionally trained at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu and appeared as a contestant on Bravo's Top Chef. ... Cook Yourself Thin Cookbook! LALATE

By Devra First With "Top Chef," "Hell's Kitchen," "Iron Chef," "The Next Food Network Star," and all the planned spinoffs of the above, cooking can now be considered a competitive sport. Tiger Woods drew 1.7 million viewers to the Golf Channel last ...

That mad scientist approach to cooking is at the heart of Top Chef: The Game, which is based on the popular television show on the cable network Bravo. ... Note to Top Chef: Stop sucking Westword Top Chef The Game" Review: Fun Even If You Don't Know What You're ... Huntington Herald Dispatch

By Patsy Kreitman Photo courtesy of Bravo TV.  First, let’s start with a quick recap of last week’s episode with Rocco DiSpirito as guest judge.  The elimination challenge was a new one for this season – a 2 and a half minute cooking demo for television.  The winning demo would get featured on the Today Show.  Man...

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...

By Kate Ward

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 rss@youtube.com (stupergenius) Another fantastic dish by myself. 5 Stars of course. I think I missed about 2 classic combos on review, but still managed to get the 5 star due to my skillz. Author: stupergenius Keywords: tv video game bravo top chef Added: November 19, 2008

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 Mary Hartney We've been remiss in noting that "Top Chef: New York" cheftestant Melissa is a Marylander, in addition to Jill Snyder of Red Maple fame. (Read Baltimore Sun dining critic Elizabeth Large's review of Red Maple -- and her Dining @... Also on Baltimore Sun blogs, TV critic David Zurawik reports t...

We've been remiss in noting that "Top Chef: New York" cheftestant Melissa is a Marylander, in addition to Jill Snyder of Red Maple fame. (Read Baltimore Sun dining critic Elizabeth Large's review of Red Maple -- and her Dining @ Large blog post about Melissa.)

By Gamezebo But Top Chef, based on the hit reality TV show, dares to do something different by tasking players to actually create dishes instead of simply following recipes. But does it succeed, or is it a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth? ...

Top Chef" (Nov. 12, 10 p.m., Bravo). • "Real Housewives of Orange County" (Nov. 25, 10 p.m., Bravo). Specials. "Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008" (Monday, 9 p.m., NBC): The apparently-ready-for-prime-time players roast the ...

By Zachary Hug Now that he got the boot! "Ouch!" Carlos, back in Fort Lauderdale, talked to OUTzone about his time on "Top Chef." We kinda totally love Carlos. Not only is he incredibly funny and a pleasure to talk to -- he's... OZ: You were in New York, right?

By Jason the TVaholic Tonight, ABC has NBA Finals action and a Jimmy Kimmel Live special. Food Network Challenge (Food Network): Repeat. Chefs compete in a “Luau Beach BBQ” challenge. Plays again later. Iron Chef America (Food Network): New. Chef Marcus Samuelsson challenges Iron Chef Bobby Flay. Plays again lat...

By monkeybear Antonia’s prize? She got to pick her teammates for Restaurant Wars. Yes, that’s right: Restaurant Wars. Hooray! Indeed, we fans of Top Chef had worried that the show had made a serious error in turning “restaurant wars” into (incredibly lame) “wedding wars.” In fact, the usually sadistic T...

From food writer to TV guru, Ted Allen wants to make great food easy Bonitanews (subscription), FL - May 20, 2008 Or perhaps from Bravo’s “Top Chef” or the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America.” (He’s the funny guy who wasn’ta chef but sounded like one). ...

By The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog It's time for Cooking Reality and on Hell's Kitchen we've got Family night and Chef Ramsey mad at one contender for no discernible reason. In Top Chef-it's yellow, turned-on asparagus and a Polish sausage dish with no polish sausage. A review of the episodes aired on this cooking show the we...

By Stuart Reb Donald Bravo TV is now casting for Top Chef Five. In a casting call released on April 18, the Bravo Network announced an open call for both professional and home culinarians to compete in next season’s Top Chef. In addition to filling out an online application, contestants are also encouraged to a...

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...

Stuff.co.nz TV review: Exotic tucker takes the Top Chef cake Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - In this latest new series of Top Chef (Tuesday, 7.30pm TV3) the competitors yelp with glee when they are put up on the top floor of a Miami hotel that comes ...

Reality TV in Review  WA - One of the contestants from the upcoming season of Project Runway left due to an injury (don't read if you don't want to be spoiled further); Top Chef ...

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...

By flipit(flipit75@gmail.com) Today's Quickfire is called Aisle Trial. I was hoping it would be like that gameshow, Supermarket Sweep, where a bunch of homely white bread couples run through a Ralph's and get their grubby hands on anything they can reach, but nooooo. The Chefs will be each be limited to their own aisle in t...

So much! Tonight is a new "Top Chef" featuring a VERY dramatic moment at Judge's Table. After “Top Chef”, we're running a sneak preview of "Tim Gunn's Guide To Style" on Bravo, and I will be live on bravotv.com taking your Top Chef questions with tonight's eliminated cheftestant and Mizz Gai...

By patrickdonohue Do I think Tre was one of the best chefs in the competition? I absolutely do but maybe he tried to shoulder too much of the workload given CJ’s complete and utter failure to lead a team that he selected. There are lots of things that ...

Many 'Top Chef' fans posted comments this week, questioning Ms. Strong's experience and credentials as a food critic and blogger. Though we've been reading her for years, it seems that many readers were taken by surprise when reading her review of the restaurants featured on last week's e...

I even watch this show on Bravo called "Top Chef"...and occasionally, Emeril or the Naked Chef on The Food Network. Cooking on TV is fun to watch!...Oh dear. Anyway, here's my review of "Ratatouille"! Ah, at last, something to satisfy ...

By Bob Sassone This review confused me for a moment. New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni gives Perilla, the restaurant owned by first season Top Chef winner Harold Dieterle, one star out of four. Now, if you're talking about movies or TV shows or albums, that's probably the "poor" category. But th...

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...

If you were unfamiliar with Anthony Bourdain before his appearance on the premiere of ‘Top Chef’ this season you may think he was a bit of an ass. Hey, maybe you’re right. I’m not going to judge you for that. In fact, maybe Bourdain himself would agree with that assessment. The truth is out of all t...

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?

Easy Spring Delights From Top Chef TheShowBuzz, NY - CBS) Cookbook author and chef Marcus Samuelsson is still young, but he's received plenty of honors. Among them, a three-star review by the New York Times ...

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 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.

By flipit(flipit75@mac.com) Today's Guest Judge is Mike Yakura, executive Chef of Sutra in San Francisco. He looks like a cute little Kewpie doll my Meemaw gave me as a kid, so I'm feeling conflicted. Guest Judge Yakura / First sign of severe Flipit homosexuality.

This reality contest falls short of a five-star review. You have to take points off when a show feels like “Project Runway” transferred to the kitchen.