Top Chef
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| Top Chef | |
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 Eric Ripert, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons on Top Chef. |
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| Genre | Reality, competition |
| Starring | Katie Lee Joel (Season 1) Padma Lakshmi (Season 2) Tom Colicchio Gail Simmons |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Bravo |
| Original run | March 8, 2006 – present |
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| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Top Chef is an American reality competition show airing on the Bravo cable television network in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated each week. The winning chef receives $100,000 in seed money to encourage his or her culinary career, is featured in Food & Wine magazine, and appears at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. The winner is also awarded a suite of Sears Kenmore kitchen appliances, and the Kenmore brand is heavily featured on the show. Sears has been a series sponsor since season 1, along with Calphalon and Toyota. A new sponsor for season 2 is Glad, which is underwriting the $100,000 prize money.[1] The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway.
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Show Summary
Top Chef has had two seasons, and is renewed for a third. For Season One, Katie Lee Joel hosted, and for Season Two, Padma Lakshmi took over as host.
| Season | Began airing | Judges | Winner | Runner-up | Number of contestants | Series Location | Finale Location | TV Station |
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| Season One | March 8, 2006 | Katie Lee Joel, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons | Harold Dieterle | Tiffani Faison | 12 | San Francisco, California | Las Vegas, Nevada | Bravo |
| Season Two | October 18, 2006 | Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons | Ilan Hall | Marcel Vigneron | 15 | Los Angeles, California | Hawaii | Bravo |
| Season Three[2] | TBA | TBA | To Be Declared | To Be Declared | 15 | Miami, Florida [3] | TBA | Bravo |
Trivia
- In both seasons of Top Chef, the chef that won the very first elimination challenge went on to become the Top Chef.
- Michael Midgley (Season 2) was the first contestant to win both the Elimination Challenge as well as the Quickfire Challenge in one episode.
External links
Show-related sites
- Top Chef official web site
- Top Chef at the Internet Movie Database
Reviews
Categories: Semi-protected | American reality television series | Food reality television series | Bravo television series | 2000s American television series | 2006 television program debuts | Cooking television series | Television shows set in San Francisco | Television shows set in Los Angeles | Television shows set in Florida
