Yes, once again Bravo interrupts your regularly scheduled week of Top Chef Season 3 competition to bring you a re-run. This time it’s another chance to see the “4 Star All Stars” battle between contestants from Seasons 1 and 2. For those of us who are addicted to our weekly fix of the current […]

Christopher Ciccone on Top Chef?

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August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

It is not common for Top Chef to bring in guest “consultants” outside of the guest judges for the week. So…why Christopher Ciccone, the man otherwise known as “Madonna’s brother”? It may have been, as some have suggested, an effort to reinforce relations with Top Chef’s gay fans, but, I expect, it mostly […]

So…everyone that is at all serious about cooking has had that moment when they were in the middle of executing a recipe and suddenly realized they needed to peel and chop 3 potatoes, or mince 2 cloves of garlic, or heat an oven to 350. Avoiding these moments that can seriously derail cooking are […]

Top Chef 3.9 - All Hail the Underdogs!

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August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

This week’s Top Chef was really part two of what began last week with the opening of “Restaurant Wars.” It all looked so predictable in the beginning. CJ won the QuickFire challenge last week and chose an all-star team of himself, Tre, Casey, and Brian to face down the ragtag remainder guaranteed-to-not-get-along group […]

It was not easy to make people feel affection for Marcel on the second season of Top Chef but somehow that smirk and attitude from ultimate winner Ilan Hall drove a number of viewers into Marcel’s camp. Ilan’s status as a villain in the making was not helped by revelations that he spent his […]

I didn’t really know whether to cheer or be disturbed last week when Top Chef revealed that food blogger Andrea Strong had been at the openings of the competing restaurants in the “Restaurant Wars” episode of the show. Padma Lakshmi proceeded to read her comments and it seemed like we heard more from Strong […]

It could have been embarrassing for Top Chef that this week’s guest judge Danield Boulud had been involved in settling a discrimination suit filed by his former employees just 2 short weeks ago. His restaurant Daniel agreed to pay $80,000 in damages to 8 workers who alleged discrimination. He will also be required […]

Top Chef 3.8 - April in the Garage

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August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Sounds sort of romantic, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. This week’s Top Chef featured one of the most anticipated events for dedicated viewers, the challenge called “Restaurant Wars.” The competitors are divided into two teams that each create an entire restaurant from the food served out of the kitchen to flowers on the […]

Gail Simmons - The Low Profile Top Chef Judge

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August 15, 2007 | 5 Comments

Padma is the show’s primary eye candy. Tom has turned more than a few heads as the loveable, improbably sexy, teddy bear of a chef, and Ted was already a familiar TV personality due to his stints as a regular on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and a frequent judge on Iron Chef […]

Hell’s Kitchen Final - A Clear Winner

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August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It wasn’t a big surprise when Rock turned out to be the winner for Hell’s Kitchen Season 3. What was probably the biggest surprise was the relative lack of drama in the final dinner service. Of course there was Julia’s conversion into an obnoxious contrarian, Josh’s inability to serve up quality crab cakes, […]

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