Top Chef All-Stars concluded last night and crowned season four runner-up Richard Blais its winner. He defeated Mike Isabella after each opened their own restaurant, and produced “the best food we’ve had in any finale,” as Tom Colicchio said. Gail Simmons echoed that: “They gave us two meals unlike any we have ever had before,” …
Top Chef educates its contestants about sexual harassment to ensure that the men and women living and working in the same space treat each other well, according to a fascinating Yahoo! Shine report that examines the show’s gender gap. The site reports that the “‘boys club’ in the house started to fray some of the …
Top Chef All Stars didn’t eliminate anyone last week, deciding that all of the final five chefs . It was pretty obvious that would happen from the very start of the episode–everyone kept saying they’d be cut to four, and it was just a little much–and it was also unprecedented. Considering the incredibly minor things …
One of the many highlights of reality television this last week was the Muppets guest judging the quickfire challenge on Top Chef All Stars, and it was particularly entertaining to watch them get on Padma Lakshmi’s nerves. Bravo has released behind-the-scenes footage as they adjust lighting and audio and Padma goes over her lines (from …
If you thought it was hilarious watching Top Chef All-Stars contestant Fabio Viviani pronounce “burger” last night (“booger,” he said sometimes; “boo-grr” and “bour-ger” other times), just wait until you read and watch his comments on the episode. Meanwhile, another comedic high point of the episode was the winning chefs’ song about beef tongue, which …
Top Chef All-Stars‘ judges are defending their decision to send Casey Thompson home instead of Jamie Lauren, and they say it was simply because Casey’s food was inedible–perhaps because she volunteered to work in the dining room during the dim sum challenge, an example of a chef once again being eliminated for doing too much …
Top Chef had its 100th episode during the middle of its first all-star season last night, and on that occasion, had a special quickfire challenge featuring head judge Tom Colicchio and a big prize: a Toyota Prius. The challenge was to make any dish in the same time that it took Tom to make black …