Top Chef

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Top Chef
Image:Judgestable.jpg Eric Ripert, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons on Top Chef.
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
Links
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.

Contents 1 Show Summary 2 Trivia 3 External links 3.1 Show-related sites 3.2 Reviews

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
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.

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