Top Chef

Top Chef

An American reality competition show in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges and are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode.

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Episodes

History Never Repeats

1. History Never Repeats

Bravo's Top Chef congregates a dream team of 18 past cheftestants who nearly won the title to return to see if they have what it takes. The 2010 Primetime Emmy Award-winning Top Chef returns to New York City for Season 8 with host Padma Lakshmi and head judge chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, best-selling author and chef, Anthony Bourdain.

Night at the Museum

2. Night at the Museum

Joe Jonas challenges chefs to create a snack for children; breakfasts inspired by a dinosaur's diet.

New York's Finest

3. New York's Finest

A mise-en-place relay race; chefs cook in four of New York's finest restaurants.

Advantage Chef

4. Advantage Chef

The chefs unexpectedly find themselves without even their knives when they are asked to make stuffing. Next up is catering an event at the U.S. Open.

Dim Sum Lose Sum

5. Dim Sum Lose Sum

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

6. We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Contestants are taken on a fishing expedition.

Restaurant Wars: One Night Only

7. Restaurant Wars: One Night Only

Fish fillet contest; chefs must open ``one night only'' restaurants in New York City.

An Offer They Can't Refuse

8. An Offer They Can't Refuse

Designer Isaac Mizrahi judges. Contestants are judged on presentation and plating; traditional three-course Italian meal.

Feeding Fallon

9. Feeding Fallon

Lock Down

10. Lock Down

It’s a Sesame Street kind of day when the chefs find themselves cooking to please Muppet palates. Next they are tasked with making a dish at a Target store.

For the Gulf

11. For the Gulf

Give Me Your Huddled Masses

12. Give Me Your Huddled Masses

The chefs need to make something out of nothing; the contestants head to Ellis Island, where they must make a dish based on their heritage.

Fit for a King

13. Fit for a King

The chefs set sail for the Bahamas, and each participates in a culinary duel against the person who was crowned the winner during their first stint on the show. Later, they create meals for Bahamian royalty, but it's a royal pain with limited cooking equipment.

Island Fever

14. Island Fever

The contestants cater a yacht club's anniversary party, but only after they have gone conch fishing.

Last Supper

15. Last Supper

Finale

16. Finale

The remaining two chefs have no time to digest what just happened as their final challenge is immediately announced. The 2 finalists choose their sous-chefs... blindfolded!

Reunion Special

17. Reunion Special

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