Top Chef
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Summary: Seventeen contestants compete for the title of Top Chef in New York City for the show's fifth season.
- Genre(s): Reality, Game Show, Food & Cooking
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 5 premiere date: Nov 12, 2008
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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80Skilled chefs, great dishes, a few doomed nervous Nellies and lots of petty squabbles ahead? What more could a loyal Top Chef fan ask for?
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80Top Chef promises more than a clash of personalities; it inspires patriotism.
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80The challenges--including a head-to-head competition where pairs of chefs are sent into various New York neighborhoods and told to cook the local cuisine--seem appropriately Big Apple-centric without being silly.
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60Top Chef is a show where you wouldn't mind having almost any of these people fix your dinner. That may sound like a formula for disaster among these types of shows, but in reality, it works out well.
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Positive: 1 out of 4
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ChrisS.8
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AnthonyU5After this unremarkable season I think the show should be renamed "Mediocre Chef."
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RedD.4
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