Top Chef (tv program)

Restaurants are filling glasses with Maryland wine

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Maryland Wine Week is back. The 11-day celebration of the state's wine industry begins Friday and runs through June 24. Organized by the Maryland Wineries Association, the third annual promotional event has restaurants and wine shops throughout the state...

Tom Colicchio and Josh Charles drop into Heavy Seas Alehouse

2013-04-26 17:56:00

"Top Chef" host Tom Colicchio stopped by Heavy Seas Alehouse on Friday afternoon with his new fishing buddy, the actor Josh Charles. The news of Colicchio's visit was circulated on social media by Heavy Seas executive chef Matt Seeber, who was the...

'Top Chef' finale recap, Is this 'Iron Chef'?

2013-02-28 06:43:00

This finale was unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and clearly produced by some kind of fill-in crew. The entire episode was done in Iron Chef style “live” from a Kitchen Stadium-esque set with a hooting and hollering audience. This...

'Top Chef Seattle' recap, 'Glacial Gourmand'

2013-02-14 06:35:00

Brooke, Josh, and Sheldon remain, splayed out on the sofas and clearly exhausted. Brooke finds a note from Padma telling them to meet her at the Eagle Crest. Is that an Alaskan Leather Bar? I'm excited. They drive up a long mountain and are stopped by...

'Top Chef Seattle' recap, episode 12, Wolfgang Clucks

2013-01-24 05:09:00

Sheldon is thrilled with his back-to-back wins and that he is "one step closer for a better future for myself and a brighter future for my family." Josie, on the other hand, is wiping away tears as she justifies her throwing-Kristen-under-the-bus...

'Top Chef Seattle' recap, episode 11, 'Restaurant Wars'

2013-01-17 06:18:00

It's Restaurant Wars: The episode so big, one hour can't contain it! In our boys vs. girls battle royale, Team Y Chromosome (Josh, Sheldon, and Stefan) will be creating Sheldon's modern Filipino "Urbano," while Team X Chromosome (Kristen, Josie, Brooke,...

'Top Chef Seattle' recap, Battle before the war

2013-01-10 06:46:00

We are greeted with another sunny Seattle morning, as the chefs debrief on the prior elimination. Josh confesses he isn’t the least bit disappointed in John Tesar’s departure, while Stefan is shown looking despondently off on the horizon as he...

2012 in dining: An era of expansion

2012-12-24 10:24:00

Call it manifest restaurant destiny. In 2012, Baltimore-based restaurateurs set about expanding their empires, or at least their brands. Clementine opened a second location in the Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, the team behind Langermann's in...

Bryan Voltaggio will host benefit dinner with Michael Voltaggio and Noma chef

2012-08-16 08:20:00

Bryan Voltaggio will host his third annual benefit dinner to fight childhood hunger on Sept. 13 at Volt, his flagship Frederick restaurant. Joining him this time will be brother Michael Voltaggio, his onetime� "Top Chef" competitor and now the chef at Ink...

From Sun Magazine: Welcome to a Voltaggio Christmas

2012-11-15 04:21:00

For Bryan Voltaggio, this holiday season is about beginnings. His latest restaurant venture — and the first outside Frederick — is slated to open. It will be his family's first Christmas in their new Urbana home. And with a son age 5 and a...

'Top Chef Seattle' recap, 'Even the Famous Come Home'

2012-12-13 05:59:00

Twelve chefs remain, on 12/12/12. Ominous! We join the gang in the stew room just after last week's blood bath. Brooke is in tears, John is pouring booze. Josh is grateful he didn't get sent home for his pork dish, what with his restaurant being called...

'Top Chef' recap, Pike Place Pickle

2012-12-06 06:40:00

This week, we start with the chefs having their own post-mortem on last week’s double elimination. Brooke is sad/happy that she has her own room now. Tyler observes that both Kuniko and Carla were both challenge winners who were subsequently...

the latest attempt to force-feed another cooking reality show on the viewing public has plenty of star wattage with its celebrity chef mentors but falters on watchable drama.

2013-03-07 14:02:00

1993 Xavier High School graduate Angelo Sosa was the runner-up in the seventh season of the Bravo reality television show 'Top Chef.'

2013-01-08 00:00:00

Chicago native Chrissy Camba lived to see another round on the 10th season of Bravo’s award-winning television show "Top Chef."

2012-11-15 10:03:24