Top chef (bravo) articles

  • Top Chef recap: All’s fair in food and war

    “It’s not a challenge. This is the war!” Laura battle-cried during Wednesday’s episode of Top Chef: Wisconsin. Yes, eight episodes in, it’s officially time for our chef-testants to take up arms for the return of Restaurant Wars. The show’s signature challenge is a polarizing one for Top Chef fans, with some loving the added drama that managing waitstaff and choosing napkins can bring to the competition, while others eye-roll their way through watching executive chefs unrealistically having to...
  • ‘Top Chef: Wisconsin’ Recap, Episode 9: ‘The Good Land’

    This is a classic example of the chefs “doing too much” and struggling to get their dishes together.
  • Let’s rank every Restaurant Wars on Top Chef

    RuPaul’s Drag Race has the Snatch Game. Survivor has Sea Legs. The Great British Bake Off has Bread Week. And Top Chef, of course, has Restaurant Wars. The iconic culinary challenge has taken on different forms in the 21 seasons since the Bravo reality competition debuted—Top Chef: Wisconsin just aired its edition of Restaurant Wars on May 8—but the gist is usually the same: Midway through each season, our remaining chef-testants are divided into two teams via knife-draw and tasked with...