The final two chefs face-off to earn the coveted title of Top Chef. The finalists will cook an epic four-course progressive meal. The chefs must impress a dining room. Top Chef is an American reality competition television series which premiered on March 8, 2006, on Bravo. The show features chefs competing against each other in.

Top Chef - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos. Top Chef season 1. Boston's transition from Beantown to a destination city for fine dining. The season is flavored with celebrity diners, renowned chefs, cultural sites, and newly energized challenges and rules for the competition.

Top Chef: Boston begins with 1. This season adds sudden death Quickfire challenges that pop up randomly.

Each round's challenges take advantage of the city's rich cultural history and local ingredients. Locations will include famous venues, old and new, including visits to Fenway Park and Plimoth Plantation. Guest judges and diners will range from superstar chefs to sports stars and celebrities.

Padma Lakshmi continues as host and judge, along with returning head judge Tom Colicchio. Gail Simmons, and Hugh Acheson continue as judges, and, in a Top Chef first, a former winner – Richard Blais – joins the panel of judges. The Top Chef title includes a feature in. Food & Wine magazine, the opportunity for the winner to showcase his or her skills at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado, and $1.

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Calgarians really cooking on Top Chef Canada: All- Stars. Redemption is on the menu for two Calgary chefs currently competing on a new season of Top Chef Canada that pits former competitors against each other in an all- stars version of the show. Of those who represented this city in the past, it was Charcut and Charbar co- chef and owner Connie De. Sousa and Nicole Gomes of Cluck n’ Cleaver and Nicole Gourmet who made the cut to return to Toronto for another attempt at a $1. De. Sousa, who was a finalist on the inaugural season of the show, said it’s a gamble to return to the Top Chef Canada kitchen — more so than when first appearing.“It’s a big risk; you could do really well in your season and then completely bomb on All- Stars,” she said.

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How could I pass it up?” she said. For both women, life has changed a lot since first appearing on the show. The Messengers Full Movie. It’s been seven years since De. Sousa competed and Charcut had just first opened when she was on the show. Now, she and co- chef and co- owner John Jackson have opened a second spot — Charbar in the Simmons building in East Village — and have taken on catering for Telus Spark. She also now has a toddler keeping her on her toes.

And just before she was to leave for Toronto to begin filming, her mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer — life- altering news that left De. Sousa feeling divided and distracted while filming.

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At first she thought she might bow out of the competition so she could be here in Calgary with her mom. Her mom, however, had a different opinion.“My mom was like, . She wrote down all the mistakes she made and how to correct them and, even during filming, she would get back to the hotel each night and catalogue errors and make plans to improve on them the next day. Mark O'Neill mark@markoneill. Among her goals was to be more tranquil in the kitchen while competing.

Not all goals are met.“I think at one point I said I’d be more quiet, but I don’t think that happened,” Gomes said. Neither Gomes nor De. Sousa knew the other was even competing.

All of the chefs have upped their game since they first appeared on the show, said De. Sousa.“It was so much harder this year. Everyone has sized up their game; they’re seven years better than when they first competed,” she said. Gomes called it a learning experience, noting how different it was than four years ago when she first filmed the show.“You really change. I had those conversations with the other chefs about how much changed. You can do a lot in four years and a lot has happened with us,” she said. Top Chef Canada: All- Stars airs Sunday nights on Food Network Canada at 1.