Top Chef Masters has cast a former Top Chef finalist as one of its 13 contestants, and the masters’ sous chefs will compete in a web series that will impact the competition, giving their boss advantages or disadvantages. Bryan Voltaggio lost to his brother, Michael, on the show’s sixth season, which the brothers ruined by… continue reading
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Winner Floyd Cardoz wanted to leave Top Chef Masters because of the conflict
During the finale of Top Chef Masters 3 last night, Floyd Cardoz beat Traci Des Jardins and Mary Sue Milliken to claim the $100,000 prize for his charity, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Young Scientist Cancer Research Fund. But he told one of the show’s new judges, Ruth Reichl, that early in the competition,… continue reading
Top Chef Masters changes: One step forward, two steps back
This season, Top Chef Masters made a number of changes to its format. Overall, they have not helped what was already a great show. Let’s start with the good. Curtis Stone is a far better host than Kelly Choi, though he is overexposed and sometimes irritating (we know you’re a chef, too, you don’t have… continue reading
Top Chef Masters dumps its format, judges and will become like Top Chef
For its third season, Bravo’s Top Chef Masters is dropping its format and modeling itself after its parent. And besides firing host Kelly Choi and replacing her with Curtis Stone, the show is dropping all its judges (Gael Greene, Jay Rayner, and Gail Simmons) except one, James Oseland, and replacing the others with food critic… continue reading
Curtis Stone will host Top Chef Masters 3, replacing Kelly Choi
Top Chef Masters will return for a third season this year, and its worst part, host Kelly Choi, will be gone, replaced by Celebrity Apprentice star Curtis Stone, who will also be on NBC’s forthcoming America’s Next Great Restaurant. Bravo simply said in an announcement that the show “will return for a third season later… continue reading