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Summary Chefs are pitted against each other in culinary challenges to win the grand prize: a cash prize, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, and the title of "Top Chef" in the competitive cooking series first hosted by Katie Lee Joel, then Padma Lakshmi and Kristen Kish.
Top Chef
23 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 15, 2006
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Summary Chefs are pitted against each other in culinary challenges to win the grand prize: a cash prize, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, and the title of "Top Chef" in the competitive cooking series first hosted by Katie Lee Joel, then Padma Lakshmi and Kristen Kish.
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23 Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 29 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 29 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Top Chef is the best-produced of TV's many cooking competitions (with Emmy nominations to attest to that fact), and the D.C. edition is already capital entertainment.
Skilled chefs, great dishes, a few doomed nervous Nellies and lots of petty squabbles ahead? What more could a loyal Top Chef fan ask for?
Chef remains the model for cook-off competitions, balancing casual insight into culinary art with psychological snapshots of the aspiring chefs. This recipe can't be improved on.
Mar 21, 2024
We hope that there will be more rule shakeups this season on Top Chef, as the show had started to become a bit rote over its past half-a-dozen seasons or so. But with the change in when immunity is won, and the new perspective Kish gives as host, Season 21 is off to a good start.
Dec 10, 2010
Their tone remains generally civilized, but also awkward enough to make for entertaining television. Still, the more casual viewer may find that All-Stars seems to throw around a lot of "you had to be there" jokes and dramas. The food drill remains the same--contestants cook, judges assess--but the interplay among the chefs clearly is shaped in part by the back stories.
"Top Chef," though it appears to have a stable of good talent in the kitchen, so far doesn't really have much else going for it in the way of personalities.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 55 User Ratings
7.9
82% Positive
45 Ratings
45 Ratings
13% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 55 User Ratings
7.9
82% Positive
45 Ratings
45 Ratings
13% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Apr 18, 2020
OMG the arrogance of these judges!! I cannot take another episode of Tom & Padma!
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Production Company:
- Insider Entertainment
- Magical Elves Productions
- Panorama Films
Initial Release Date: Feb 15, 2006
Number of seasons: 23 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Genres:
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Wins & 54 Nominations
PGA Awards
• 17 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
