Top Chef 9 – Page 3 – reality blurred

Top Chef 9 filming in Texas, including San Antonio and Austin

Top Chef‘s ninth season is being filmed in Texas, including in Austin and San Antonio, where Pee-Wee Herman made a guest appearance. The season started filming in late June, when Eater reported that someone tweeted that Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Padma Lakshmi, Emeril Lagasse, and Tre Wilcox were at a restaurant, and that caused a …

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