Anyone know what’s going on with Peacock removing older seasons of Top Chef? I couldn’t find anything online about it but I noticed this morning that seasons 8-21 only have 30 days left on the platform. Did they lose licensing or streaming rights?
I just love Kristen so much. I can't imagine a better host. She's such a great ambassador for the show. Cute interview relative to Emmy nominations. So, what location do we think she's so excited about? Could it be Orlando as previously suggested?
On the show:
Common set of rules for all quizzes
All quizzes can be answered by watching the show itself (and its related to their performance on the show)
Top Chef USA (including World All Stars) only
Outside of mistakes on my end, all groups are exclusive and no other chef will fit in the answer. For example, if the pictures are all of 8 top chef winners, the answer will not be 'they all won top chef', because 13 others would belong. The answer could still be 'they all won top chef using saltine crackers in their dish '
For the sake of limiting my research, I only focus on the top 10 people per season. So if a 15th placer meets my criteria for any reason, they wont be in my quiz.
Hints every 2 hours or so, will not be in spoilers .
Answer will be in 24 hours if nobody gets it
Couple of excerpts. In addition to wanting more prize $, she has an idea of where they're going for season 24 and is excited.
“I was just talking with some folks from Bravo, and I was like, ‘We need to increase the prize money.’ On my season, Season 10, it was $125,000. Now it’s $250,000, but with inflation, we should be creeping up near a million,” she said during a conversation at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees Studio. “Eggs are expensive these days. We need to like up the ante a little bit, but I do understand that it’s far more complicated than just saying give us a million bucks.”
Top Chef, produced by Magical Elves, has already been renewed for Season 24. Kish wouldn’t give much away as to where it will be set. “I have heard rumblings. I have a general idea of where we’re going, and all I can say is I’m very, very excited for the entire plan,” she said.
Kristen Kish, host of “Top Chef” and a past winner who admits she did not watch much reality competition before taking the helm of Bravo’s cooking contest in 2024, may have diplomatically skirted any attempt at comparison with Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, “Top Chef” predecessor Padma Lakshmi or “The Traitors” emcee Alan Cumming. But she acknowledges that her distinct approach — kinder, gentler, more tearful — is rooted in her particular skill set: “It’s similar to how I responded to being led in kitchens,” she says. “You don’t lead with fear. You lead with compassion and empathy and encouragement and confidence. And two things can be true at the same time ... I can require more from them, and I can also cry because I’m filled with joy for their progress.”
Emmy-nominated for reality competition series and reality host, “Top Chef: Carolinas” epitomizes Kish’s swift remaking of the role in her own image. The season, which concluded in June, finds Kish comforting a distraught chef, Nana Araba Wilmot, who fails to plate her dish in the allotted time; navigating thorny questions of fairness and wellness with an injured contestant, Jennifer Lee Jackson, and her fellow-contestant partner, Justin Tootla; even facing acrimonious “feedback about [her] feedback” when chef Sieger Bayer is eliminated from the competition.
The Times’ Matt Brennan recently caught up with Kish as she prepared for an Envelope photo shoot to ask her about the season’s most talked-about moments, recent criticism of the format and the hard work of being a good host.
I might get the chance to dine at Freighthouse (fingers crossed).
Anyone who's been, should I go for the Chef's tasting coursed menu or should I just try the normal dinner menu for my first visit. It isn't exactly about finances, but more about what I should do for my first visit/experience.
Went to Tom’s Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas tonight! Not only was the food and service phenomenal, but I mentioned offhand to our hostess that I loved Top Chef as she was leading us to our table, and towards the end of the meal our waiter told us she’s actually Tom’s niece and the manager/co-owner of that location. She ended up sending us free dessert and then came out with a signed copy of Tom’s cookbook to take home.
My nerdy little TC-loving heart was so giddy ❤️
City is exploding with growth. We've had plenty of James Beard nominees--I think even Tandy Wilson of City House was a guest diner/judge at one point. The city has more than enough uniqueness and a history of great chefs.
I’m not trying to claim that the three chefs that moved on weren’t likely better chefs across the competition or didn’t deserve it, but was anyone else annoyed that John was sent home for making a margarita for the margarita portion of the challenge at the Patron Hacienda when none of the other three made anything that can even reasonably be called a play on a margarita? And when the judges didn’t even think that two of the non-margaritas were good?