You’ve been watching the great culinary cook-off on “Top Chef: New Orleans” all season long, and there were all sorts of questions moving into this finale. Would Nina Compton really steal the show just as everyone expected, or was the darkhorse candidate that is Nicholas Elmi able to pull off a win? The name of […]
Stop us when this one sounds familiar: As we near the finale of “Top Chef” this season, Padma Lakshmi is going to at some point be in a bikini. Really, we’re doing this again? We remember this happening at least once the last time that the show went to a tropical location, and it hilariously […]
Even though “Top Chef” may no longer be in New Orleans, the season (which was primarily set there) is going to be coming to a close presumably on Wednesday night with one of its most entertaining finales yet. While we don’t know who won just yet, let us just say that in one way, we […]
How about this for some news about a pair of different cable shows? A pair of programs that you may very much lover are each going to be coming back for another season. Let’s start here with “Top Chef,” which will e returning once again in the fall for a landmark 12th season. This news […]
The “Top Chef: New Orleans” final two is official … and it may have not been the two that you were expecting most of the season. But, we warned you about this in some of our preview articles. The time away between filming the main portion of the season and the finale is significant, since […]
Tonight’s “Top Chef” is the beginning of an extensive finale event, where the remaining chefs will all square off in a place that is certainly far away from New Orleans: Maui. It’s got a different flavor profile, different challenges, but is aesthetically beautiful at the same time. The remaining chefs also bring something different to […]
Even though we may have the same five competitors left on “Top Chef: New Orleans” that we did at the last time in which we did contestants rankings, we do think that having Carlos Gaytan in “Last Chance Kitchen” against Louis Maldonado changes things on a certain level. Now, we know that only one of […]
The first part of the “Top Chef: New Orleans” finale starts next week in Maui, but the question on tonight’s new episode of the show was pretty darn simple: Who was going to make it there? Nina Compton, Nicholas Elmi, Shirley Chung, and Carlos Gaytan were all present at the start of the hour, but […]
Let us start off this review of the “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” finale by saying this: The entire twist of this last challenge was completely flawed and quite possibly unfair. When the producers sat around and tried to conceive a great little component to add to this last episode, we are sure that someone […]
Just how are the remaining chefs on “Top Chef: New Orleans” going to get an opportunity to “leave their mark” on the Big Easy? Let’s just put it this way: The winning dish on tomorrow night’s elimination challenge will be featured throughout Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants in the city. That’s some big stuff. Most people in […]
