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  • Top Chef Preps for Season Two
    Teaser: Bravo announced that the second season of its cooking reality show, Top Chef, will premiere in October with even more mincing, egotistical, or just plain pretty chefs to scream at than last...
  • Lukewarm Repast
    Bravo is replaying Top Chef’s first season to whet viewers’ appetites for the season two, set to premiere October 18. But if anything, a second look at the show makes its flaws more glaring.
  • America's Next Top Wino
    Striking the gastronomic reality show iron while it's hot, PBS has gathered 12 purple-lipped contestants who will compete for the opportunity to create and uncork their own wine labels.
  • Something Smells Like Synergy
    Former Project Runway designer, Nick Verreos, cooks up a special silhouette for Top Chef.
  • "Top Chef" Check-In
    The bloggers dish about the second season of Bravo's Top Chef. We distill, so you don't have to.
  • Online Surprise
    If this week's episode of "Top Chef" clinched your impression of Marisa as uptight, humorless, and not very nice, it's time to add another adjective to the list: sexxxy. The ostensibly buttoned-up ...
  • Frozen Favorites
    Readers of diet-food blog IateApie have spoken: Lean Cuisine meals are by far the yummiest nukeable options out there. Would you be caught dead eating a frozen dinner?
  • Use the Force, Lucques
    It certainly shaped up to be a Lucques-cullian sort of week, didn't it?
  • No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back
    Donald Trump, who doesn't drink alcohol, recently launched his own premium vodka brand. Why is he hawking a product he hates?
  • In the Wong Place
    Imagine my delight when I learned that Bravo.com would be giving us hungry surfers "Top Recipe:The Wong Way to Cook.
  • Top Schmuck
    Watch out, Top Chef kvetchers: If you happen to think host Padma Lakshmi's expanse of exposed skin in a working kitchen is a pinch inappropriate, you might be as anti-Semetic as Mel Gibson.
  • "Top Chef": Coming Back for Thirds
    Amid critical and rating success, Bravo renews Top Chef for a third season.
  • "Top Chef" Check-in
    What have last year's two finalists, Harold Dieterle and Tiffani Faison, been up to since last season?
  • Top Chat
    Bravo invites you to log on, brave the masses, and discuss your favorite reality shows. Just don't use dial-up.
  • "Top Chef" Chaos
    This week's episode of Top Chef takes a step away from the food to focus more fully on mega-drama and frat-house antics—and some loyal fans have pledged to stop watching because of it.
  • "Top Chef": Cooking Up Controversy
    The Top Chef conspiracy theories are flying.
  • Paddling Padma
    New York Magazine has a tasty little item this week about Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. The overall theme: faint praise and implicit disrespect.
  • Top Martyr
    The gossip and fur continue to fly as more Top Chef contestants talk to the press.
  • Nuthin' but Love for the CIA
    Epicurious's new video and blog series promises to "infiltrate the Culinary Institute of America." Apparently by "infiltrate" they mean "run an infomercial for," judging from an early look.
  • I'm Hatin' It
    An eagle-eyed blogger catches what appears to be subliminal advertising on Iron Chef America, but at least it's not as bad as Top Chef's product-laden episodes.
  • Top Spoiler
    An errant and temporary article on Food & Wine's website reveals the winner of Top Chef.
  • Damage Control: It's What's for Dinner
    As desperation wafts in from the test kitchen, Food & Wine vainly tries to repair the damage from yesterday's Top Chef leak.
  • Top Chef, According to Bourdain
    Anthony Bourdain redeemed Top Chef for me with his funny, tell-it-like-it-is assessment of the Top Chef contestants. Not only do I love the show again, but I love Anthony Bourdain.
  • Forget Top Chef: Welcome to Hell
    London chef Marco Pierre White mimicks Ramsay and hosts UK version of Hell's Kitchen.
  • Top Design Fetes Tom Colicchio
    Tom Colicchio appears on tonight's episode of Top Design, and Perilla might finally open its doors to all the starving Harold lovers out there.
  • Ilan Hall Cheapens Himself
    Top Chef Ilan Hall isn't as blinged as you think. Or is he?
  • Padma and Salman: Banana Splitsville?
    It's so obvious, but here goes: Has Padma told Salman to pack his knives and go?
  • Top Caterer
    Wondering what Sam Talbot and Mike Midgley have been up to since the end of Top Chef's second season?
  • Marcel Gets Wired
    Wired magazine posts an online spread lauding Marcel Vigneron's molecular gastronomic skills.
  • Chopped Liver
    The Food Network is casting its net Tri-State-wide for its next reality show, Chopped.
  • Top Chef Miami Vice
    Bravo finally releases definitive news on the third season of Top Chef.
  • Ex-Cheftestant Resorts to Plagiarism
    Remember that online exclusive in Wired on molecular gastronomy dishes from Top Chef finalist Marcel Vigneron? Turns out one of the recipes is a blatant wd-50 ripoff.
  • Sayonara, Sam
    Harold Dieterle opens Perilla, but Sam Talbot is asked to move on from Spitzer's Corner.
  • Is Food Ever Intellectual Property?
    The Marcel-Vigneron-rips-off-Wylie-Dufresne saga has gotten a lot more philosophically interesting than anything that happened during the last season of Top Chef.
  • Top Chef Is Bi!
    Bravo and Telemundo team up to push the new Miami-based Top Chef at a Latino audience.
  • Shoe-Leather Pork and Lettuce Wraps
    This season, Top Chef is finally more about the food than the drama. Just one problem: The food isn't all that exciting so far.
  • Game On, Top Chef
    Top Chef: the game.
  • Padma and Rusho Go Busto!
    The host of Top Chef and the author of The Satanic Verses are finally calling it quits.
  • Perilla Semidissed
    The reviews are in for Harold Dieterle's Perilla, and they're kind of eh.
  • Strong Diss
    Did Top Chef make food blogger Andrea Strong a sacrificial lamb?
  • It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World
    _Top Chef_: Stop searing our eyeballs with ads!
  • Alton on the Attack
    Alton Brown insults Top Chef and other reality food shows in an interview with blogger Andrea Strong.
  • Daring Dining Rooms
    Inside restaurants where the surroundings can't help but outshine the menus.
  • Padma Effing Lakshmi
    Padma's got a potty mouth; bloggers gasp! Oh yeah, she's got a cookbook, too.
  • Ted Allen Gets Saucy
    The Top Chef judge offers advice to presidential hopefuls and dishes details on Padma in the nude.
  • Who'd Ya Rather: Chef or Rock Star?
    Time Out New York dives into the world of chef groupies.

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