June 6, 2009
Scenes from Top Chef Masters, Series Premiere
Bravo’s new series, Top Chef Masters, will premiere on Wednesday, June 10 at 10:00 p.m EST. A spinoff of the network’s Top Chef, Masters features 24 world-renowned chefs who will compete for money for their favorite charities. Each of the first six episodes will have four competitors, resulting in one winner each week who will get a cash donation for his or her cause. The winners from these six episodes will compete in the final four episodes, with one being eliminated each week until one remains. The winner will be awarded $100,000 for his or her charity.
Kelly Choi, food journalist and host of NYC TV’s Eat Out NY, will host and serve as a judge. Her fellow judges will be restaurant critic and author Gael Greene, journalist and broadcaster Jay Rayner, and author and Saveur Editor in Chief James Oseland.
The competing chefs are:
- Rick Bayless: Frontera Grill, Chicago, IL
- Wilo Benet: Pikayo, San Juan, PR
- John Besh: Restaurant August, New Orleans, LA
- Graham Elliot Bowles: Graham Elliot Restaurant, Chicago, IL
- Michael Chiarello: Bottega Restaurant, Yountville, CA
- Michael Cimarusti: Providence, Los Angeles, CA
- Wylie Dufresne: wd~50, New York, NY
- Elizabeth Falkner: Orson, San Francisco, CA
- Hubert Keller: Fleur de Lys, San Francisco, CA
- Christopher Lee: Aureole, New York, NY
- Ludo Lefebvre: Ludo Bites, Los Angeles, CA
- Anita Lo: Annisa, New York, NY
- Tim Love: The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, Fort Worth, TX
- Rick Moonen: Rick Moonen’s RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
- Nils Noren: French Culinary Institute, New York, NY
- Lachlan McKinnon Patterson: Frasca Food & Wine, Boulder, CO
- Cindy Pawlcyn: Mustards Grill, Napa Valley, CA
- Mark Peel: Campanile, Los Angeles, CA
- Douglas Rodriguez: Alma de Cuba, Philadelphia, PA
- Michael Schlow: Radius Restaurant, Boston, MA
- Art Smith: Table Fifty-Two, Chicago, IL
- Suzanne Tracht: Jar, Los Angeles, CA
- Jonathan Waxman: Barbuto, New York, NY
- Roy Yamaguchi: Roy’s Restaurants, San Diego, CA
Click below for a preview and scenes from the series premiere.
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