All Entries in the "Top Chef" Category
Tom Colicchio Cookbooks
‘wichcraft: Craft a Sandwich into a Meal–And a Meal into a Sandwich Slow-roasted meats, marinated vegetables, surprising flavor combination’s, this is not your mother’s sandwich. With acclaimed restaurants located across the United States, and a high-profile job as head judge of the hit show Top Chef, Tom Colicchio is one of the best-known chefs and [...]
Top Chef Las Vegas (Finale) Michael Voltaggio Wins!
Congratulations to Michael Voltaggio for winning season 6 of Top Chef Las Vegas. All three finalists did an awesome job the entire season. In the final, the remaining three chefs were Kevin, Bryan V and Michael V. After Kevin was told he would not be Top Chef, it came down to the brothers. It really [...]
Top Chef – All Stars Dinner
Reunion time! Bravo asked Fabio Viviana (previous season fan favorite) to host a dinner at Social for 11 of previous chefs from Top Chef. Not only do we get the great normal entertainment provided by Top Chef, but we get to reminisce with previous contestants… some memories and complaints should be flying around the dinner [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 10) – “Meat Natalie”
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 10) – “Meat Natalie” – Recap… Quickfire: A challenge from TV Guide to recreate a classic TV dinner. TV Guide picked 7 iconic shows to inspire the chefs. Knifes are drawn and the shows are The Sopranos, Gilligan’s Island, The Flintstones, Sesame Street, Mash, Seinfeld and Cheers. Bottom: Jennifer, Robin [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 9) – “Restaurant Wars”
Quickfire: This week’s guest judge is Rick Moonen, chef/owner of RM Seafood. The challenge is about testing teamwork. It’s the first tag team cook-off. Knifes are drawn to determine teams, but as the knives are drawn they’re all blank with the exception of Jennifer’s whose knife says “1st choice” and Michael V.’s whose knife says [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 8) – “Pigs and Pinot”
Quickfire The guest judge is Chef Charlie Palmer who tells the chefs their challenge it to prepare a dish that is a good paring with Alexia chips. Top three dishes are from Eli, Bryan and Kevin, with the win going to Eli. Bottom three dishes are from Jennifer, Robin, and Ash. Elimination The chefs are [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 7) – “Dinner Party”
Quickfire: Tonight’s high stakes quickfire challenge starts at the slot machine with guest judge Chef Tyler Florence. The challenge is to create a dish incorporating three keywords which will tell the mood, taste/texture and type of cuisine. With a pull of the slot machine handle, the slots will give the three keywords. This quickfire challenge [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 6) – “Penn & Teller”
This episode of Top Chef starts off with everyone upset that Robin did go home at the end of the last episode. They all feel Mattin should still be around instead. So as a tribute to Mattin, most of the chefs wrap a red scarf around their necks. And as you can guess, they all [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 5) – “Camping”
Quickfire The guest judge for this “camping” episode of Top Chef is Tim Love, chef and owner of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Ft. Worth. This is a high stakes QF where the winner gets $15K. Fans got to choose between rattlesnake, cactus and kangaroo. The vote was 57% for cactus. So the challenge is [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 4) – “Vivre Las Vegas”
Quickfire: Guest judge Daniel Boulud, chef & restaurateur who owns Daniel in NY, Café Boulud, Daniel Boulud Brassiere in Wynn Hotel and others. The challenge… make a winning dish using snails as the main protein. Winner gets immunity and loser goes home. High stakes QF! Top 3: Mike, Kevin and Jennifer. With the win going [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 3) – “Thunderbirds”
This weeks episode starts with the contestants stepping into a kitchen which is full of potatoes. Every type of potatoe you can imagine. Standing next to the potato table is Padman and guest judge Mark Peel of Campanile restaurant in LA. The quickfire challange is to create an “out of this world” dish featuring… you [...]
Top Chef (Season 6, Episode 2) – “Bachelor/ette Party”
Episode 2 (season 6) of Top Chef started with a quickfire challenge around a craps table… wait a minute, didn’t we just see a craps table a few nights ago on Hell’s Kitchen. Maybe craps is going to be the next World’s series of poker — World series of craps Ok, back to Top Chef. [...]
Top Chef – Season 6
Top Chef Las Vegas (season 6) — this should be a great season. I think this looks like the best line up of chefs out of all the previous 5 seasons; and what a perfect place to have the show, in Vegas. The first show of the season jumped right in and gave a good [...]
