TOP CHEF star Brian Hill opens new Tucson eatery ‘Chef Brian’s Comfort Kitchen’
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TOP CHEF star Brian Hill opens new Tucson eatery ‘Chef Brian’s Comfort Kitchen’

Foodies will remember Brian Hill from season one of Top Chef. Since then he has starred on several other cooking competition shows including MasterChef and Beat Bobby Flay. A private chef to celebrities as big as Mariah Carey, ‘Chef Brian’ is bringing his recipes to the Southwest with the opening of Tucson based “Chef Brian’s…

TOP CHEF Fatima Ali reveals she has a year to live, shares what she plans to do with her remaining time
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TOP CHEF Fatima Ali reveals she has a year to live, shares what she plans to do with her remaining time

29-yera-old Season 15 fan favorite Top Chef contestant Fatima Ali revealed that her cancer has returned and she only has a year left to live. In a moving essay for Bon Appetit‘s Healthyish blog, Fatima shares what she plans to do with the time she has left after such a devastating diagnosis. “The cancer cells…

How many calories do the Top Chef judges eat in a day?
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How many calories do the Top Chef judges eat in a day?

Earlier this month Top Chef‘s 15th season, set in Colorado, ended with a win for Joe Flamm. After a decade-and-a-half the show is still going strong thanks to mouth watering competitions and the chemistry between the show’s longtime stars: head judge Tom Colicchio and host Padma Lakshmi. They nosh down on so many different delicious…

Photo from the Summer By Bravo commercial "Summer Camp By Bravo"
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VIDEO Bravo launches 2011 Summer by Bravo campaign with summer camp commercial

It’s been a year since Bravo launched their fun and immensely popular star-studded “Summer By Bravo” commercial featuring dozens of Bravolebrities enjoying an elegant pool-side party. As any fan of the network knows, Bravo likes what the fans like so they have a brand new star-packed “Summer By Bravo” commercial for 2011!

Instead of the elegant poolside party they’ve gone with the summer camp theme and the commercial features a slew of the most entertaining folks in reality programming as they get off a bus for a fun-filled summer of ping pong, archery, practical jokes, campfires and fireworks!

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Top Chef Masters Season 3 Episode 7 Recap: Taste Test, Date Night, Curtis Stone

Episode 7 of Season 3 of Top Chef Masters started with a taste test quickfire challenge, but not just a normal Top Chef taste test. These are the masters. These challenges have to be ridiculous. So . . . the taste test is really a “what can you do with one sense, alone” test. The first sense tested was taste, and the chefs had to wear headphones and noseplugs while they tasted things.

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Top Chef’s Suvir Saran’s Majorly Misunderstood Meat Mission

In a new comment, Suvir Saran does anything but back away the anti-meat rhetoric that contributed to his elimination from Top Chef Masters 3. In fact, he claims that we will all someday look back on his Top Chef tirade and recognize it as a major historical event! Keep reading to chow down on all that Saran served up in his lengthy tirade addendum!

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Top Chef Masters Episode 6 recap, Maroon 5, 7 minutes in heaven

Top Chef Masters Season 3 started Episode 6 right up with the quickfire challenge called 7 Minutes in Heaven. The display table was full of expensive, luxurious food, and you could see the chefs’ eyes light up as they walked in and saw it. Finally, something good to work with! No bugs. No fast food. Ah . . . The twist?

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Top Chef the Musical? On Broadway?!?

If fans of Top Chef weren’t so sure about the cross-over with The Biggest Loser this week, how will they react to the latest rumor about the show’s next spin-off — a Broadway musical! It seems that’s exactly what host Tom Colicchio has been pitching to Bravo executive vice-president of original programming Andy Cohen. Keep reading to find out exactly what Andy said about the project and which cheftestants have already said they would be willing to do it!

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Red meat conflict gets Suvir Saran eliminated from Top Chef

  Chef Suvir Saran is a “visionary and his integrity will take him very far”, at least according to Chef Traci Des Jardins; but it won’t take him any further this season on Top Chef Masters. In the Biggest Loser challenge, the chefs were asked to transform the high calorie foods that Biggest Loser Season…

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Did Top Chef All-Stars winner Richard Blais split his winnings with Mike Isabella to open up Graffiato?

Pack your knives and go for it! Top Chef All-Stars runner-up Mike Isabella, is hiring servers and cooks for his new Washington DC restaurant, Graffiato, How many miles would you drive to find out what pepperoni sauce tastes like; or, if you’ve got the resume, to be on the line cooking it for Chef Isabella?…

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Top Chef DC contestants: Former Iron Chef challenger Kelly Liken

33-year-old Cheftestant on Top Chef DC Kelly Liken hails from Pittsburgh, but owns a restaurant in Vail, CO, called Restaurant Kelly Liken. Like most of the contestants this season, Kelly is well established already. She graduated at the top of her class Culinary Institute of America, and serves “simple, exciting, seasonal American food” at her…

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The real reason Kevin Gillespie didn’t win Top Chef: He was going through a divorce

Kevin Gillespie, everyone’s favorite pork-lovin’ leprechaun, lost Top Chef Season 6 to Evil Robot Michael, and I’ve been inconsolable ever since. Now the lovable Yukon Cornelius lookalike has revealed that a personal issue that may have affected his performance during the final round. Gillespie was a standout favorite in a Top Chef season devoid of…

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Who won Top Chef Las Vegas Season 6? Finale recap and the winner!

Tonight was the concluding hour of Season Six of the great Bravo reality competition show Top Chef. The season started with 17 aspiring chefs and tonight there were just three left. Click to see my recap (typed out as I “watched what happened” live!) and to find out who took home the honor of… TOP CHEF!