Top Chef Season Four Finale Tonight

TV Food Shows, Top Chef
11 Jun 2008 Tonight's the night. Top Chef finale. I wrote previously and erroneously that it was going to go down to four then two off, and tonight would be two left. That was based on the first two seasons of Top Chef. When last year (season three) there were three who went to the finals, I thought it was an unusual tie. Ooops. Someone forgot to slip a note under my door telling me that that was apparently not an unusual event but the new rule! So, ok then, we have for the second year, ... {More...}

Quick Top Chef Recap for Weeks 9-12

Anthony Bourdain, Padma Lakshmi, TV Show Reviews, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef
29 May 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney And so the third month, another four weeks, has rolled by already and it's time to do a monthly recap -- the last one -- on Top Chef. Pssst, here's the first and the second monthly recaps we did in case you want to recall what happened from the beginning. Top Chef, Season 4. The standings at the end of Week 12. Super quick Top Chef recap of the past month: Week 9: This is the one where the Quick Fire was the prep relay and Dale throws a tantrum. What we remember most about this ep ... {More...}

News Bites: Top Chef the Cruise Ship, Too Many Wolfgangs, Robin Uncorked

Food Festivals, News Bites, Top Chef, Wolfgang Puck
14 May 2008 Pack Your Knives and ... Enter. Broadcasting & Cable has the scoop on the mega-blitz Bravo is launching to capitalize on all things Top Chef: Bravo Media is striking new partnerships to sell everything from cruises to cookbooks tied to its shows, in an effort to take its brand name beyond television. The deals, which include a Top Chef cruise, calendar and cooking class. For "Chef", the network will launch a 20-city mobile tour with an 18-wheel semi-truck branded with show graphics and staffed with former contestants. The truck makes its first appearance at the upcoming NCTA cable show ... {More...}

Quick ‘Top Chef’ Recap for Weeks 5-8

Ming Tsai, Padma Lakshmi, TV Show Reviews, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef
07 May 2008 ©2008 Harry Kenney So another month, another four weeks have gone by, and that means four more of our "favorite" (or sometimes not) Top Chef cheftestants are but a mere memory. Here's the first monthly recap we did in case you want to recall what happened then. (Put all of these together at the end of the show and you'll have the world's coolest Top Chef Season Four recap, you just know.) That out of the way then, here's the quick summary of the past four weeks with the very last TCB "What's Happening on Top Chef" score card for ... {More...}

Reality Recap: Bulls-Eye Ben? Is Blanc a French Prude? Spike Not All Bad?

Hell's Kitchen, Last Restaurant Standing, TV Show Reviews, Top Chef
24 Apr 2008 Over the past two days, our favorite three food reality shows were on ... Hell's Kitchen, Last Restaurant Standing and Top Chef ... so let's check each one out and see what happened. Hell's Kitchen Took long enough to kill Craig! Whew, finally! Yeah, I noticed the over-tanning myself on last night's episode. That's what happens when you have a Brit in California. hehe I do think Ben might be correct though. Seems Ramsay is out for him, and Ben is no better and no worse than most of the others. Matt on the other hand is definitely destined to go in the ... {More...}