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  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Bravo
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Bravo

Summary What happens in Vegas … will be delicious. Top Chef travels westward for season six, stopping in Las Vegas to take advantage of the top restaurants and restaurateurs located throughout the city, and use its atmosphere and colorful locations to inspire some of the hardest challenges that the contestants have ever seen. Seventeen o...

  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Bravo
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Bravo
Top Chef
22 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 15, 2006
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 29 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 54 User Ratings
7.8
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Summary What happens in Vegas … will be delicious. Top Chef travels westward for season six, stopping in Las Vegas to take advantage of the top restaurants and restaurateurs located throughout the city, and use its atmosphere and colorful locations to inspire some of the hardest challenges that the contestants have ever seen. Seventeen o...

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22 Seasons

Top Cast

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Tom Colicchio

Self - Head Judge, Self - Judge, Self

Padma Lakshmi

Self - Host, Self, Judge

Gail Simmons

Self - Judge, Food & Wine Magazine, Self

Richard Blais

Self - Contestant, Self, Self - Guest Judge

Casey Thompson

Self - Contestant, Self, Self - Brooke's Sous Chef

Emeril Lagasse

Self - Judge, Chef, Restaurateur

Dale Talde

Self - Contestant, Self, Self - Guest Judge

Hugh Acheson

Self - Judge, Chef, Self - Guest Judge

Brooke Williamson

Self - Contestant, Self - Guest Judge, Self

Sheldon Simeon

Self - Contestant, Self - Brooke's Sous Chef, Self - Guest Diner

Melissa King

Self - Contestant, Private Chef, Self - Guest Judge, Self, Self - Judge

Bryan Voltaggio

Self - Contestant, Self - Guest Judge, Self

Shirley Chung

Self - Contestant, Executive Chef, Self - Sous Chef, Nina

Gregory Gourdet

Self - Contestant, Executive Chef, Departure, Self - Guest Judge

Antonia Lofaso

Self

Carla Hall

Self - Contestant, Self, Self - Guest Judge, Self - Sous Chef, Mike

Michael Isabella

Self - Contestant, Self

Stephanie Cmar

Self - Contestant, Sous Chef, No. 9 Park, Self - Sous Chef, Nina

Buddha Lo

Self - Contestant, Self - Guest Judge

Spike Mendelsohn

Self, Self - Contestant, Self - Sous Chef - Richard, Self - Sous Chef, Crabs, Self - Sous Chef, Richard

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Critic Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 29 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
23 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 29 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
23 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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  • Mixed Reviews
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100
Mar 21, 2024
Seasoned quality instantly gives Kish’s hosting debut a boost.
By Christina Izzo FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
80
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?
By Heather Havrilesky FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Tom Gliatto FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
40
"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.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 54 User Ratings
7.8
81% Positive
44 Ratings
13% Mixed
7 Ratings
6% Negative
3 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 54 User Ratings
7.8
81% Positive
44 Ratings
13% Mixed
7 Ratings
6% Negative
3 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Magical Elves Productions
  • Panorama Films
Initial Release Date: Feb 15, 2006
Number of seasons: 22 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Wins & 48 Nominations
PGA Awards
• 16 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations

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