{"id":174109,"date":"2021-02-09T17:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/top-chef-season-18-bravo-series-returning-with-rotating-judging-and-dining-panel\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:25:04","slug":"top-chef-season-18-bravo-series-returning-with-rotating-judging-and-dining-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/top-chef-season-18-bravo-series-returning-with-rotating-judging-and-dining-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"#Top Chef: Season 18; Bravo Series Returning with Rotating Judging and Dining Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Top Chef: Season 18; Bravo Series<\/a> Returning with Rotating Judging and Dining Panel<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A new season of Top Chef<\/i> is coming soon. Season 18 of the cooking competition series will premiere in April, and fans will see a rotating panel of judges this time around. Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio\u202f, and\u202fGail Simmons will be joined winners, finalists, and favorites from previous seasons join them.<\/p>\n

Bravo revealed more about the new season, filmed entirely in Portland, in a press release. Check that out below.<\/p>\n

\u201cBravo\u2019s Top Chef<\/i>, produced by Magical Elves, calls Portland, Oregon home for season 18, kicking off with two weeks of supersized premieres starting on Thursday, April 1 from 8:00 \u2013 9:15 pm ET\/PT.<\/b> \u202fThis season, a new batch of 15 extremely talented Executive Chefs and restaurant owners, representing a cross section of kitchens and food around the country, vie for the coveted title bringing their unique skillsets, diversity of cuisines and gamut of flavors. With Portland as a picturesque backdrop and culinary inspiration, the chefs compete in a variety of challenges including celebrating PDX\u2019s Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of frontline workers and crabbing on the Oregon Coast in a tribute to culinary icon and Oregonian James Beard.<\/p>\n

The Emmy and James Beard Award-Winning series returns with\u202fhost\u202fPadma Lakshmi, head\u202fjudge\u202fTom Colicchio\u202fand\u202fGail Simmons.\u202f\u202fFor the first time ever,\u202fa collection of \u201cTop Chef\u201d all-star winners, finalists and favorites are joining an elite rotating judging and dining panel including\u202fRichard\u202fBlais, Carrie Baird, Nina Compton, Tiffany Derry, Gregory Gourdet, Melissa King, Kristen Kish, Edward Lee, Kwame Onwuachi, Amar Santana, Dale\u202fTalde\u202fand\u202fBrooke Williamson.\u202f\u202f This season also includes app<\/a>earances by Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, Massimo Bottura, Gabriel Rucker and Alice Waters, as well as \u201cPortlandia\u201d stars Fred Armisen\u202fand\u202fCarrie Brownstein who stop by \u201cTop Chef\u201d Kitchen for a Quickfire Challenge.<\/p>\n

Beginning\u202fThursday, April 8,\u202fBravo\u2019s\u202fEmmy-Winning digital companion series\u202fTop Chef: Last Chance Kitchen<\/i>,\u202fhosted by Tom Colicchio,\u202freturns for season ten as the eliminated chefs go head-to-head to try to cook their way back into the competition. Presented\u202fby\u202fBMW of North America,\u202feach week\u2019s episode will be available\u202fon\u202fBravotv.com,\u202fOn Demand or wherever you stream Bravo\u2019s Top Chef<\/i> at the conclusion of each week\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

Meet the New Cheftestants:<\/p>\n

Brittanny Anderson \u2013 Richmond, VA
\nAvishar Barua \u2013 Columbus, OH
\nDawn Burrell \u2013 Houston, TX
\nGabe Erales \u2013 Austin, TX
\nNelson German \u2013 Oakland, CA
\nByron Gomez \u2013 Aspen, CO
\nSasha Grumman \u2013 Houston, TX
\nRoscoe Hall \u2013 Birmingham, AL
\nSara Hauman- Portland, OR
\nKiki Louya \u2013 Detroit, MI
\nMaria Mazon \u2013 Tucson, Arizona
\nShota Nakajima \u2013 Seattle, WA
\nGabriel Pascuzzi\u2013 Portland, OR
\nJamie Tran \u2013 Las Vegas, NV
\nChris Viaud- Milford, NH<\/p>\n

During a time of extreme hardship in the restaurant industry, these chefs have more on the line than ever before. From working with foraged mushrooms and picking produce at the famous Hood River Fruit Loop to visiting the Tillamook Creamery, the chefs are tasked with cooking with Oregon\u2019s natural bounty of ingredients. With Padma, Tom and Gail and a table full of alums to impress, the expectations have never been higher, especially in this year\u2019s unique Restaurant Wars where the teams must perfectly execute on a micro-restaurant concept with a cohesive seven-course tasting menu that rivals the best in the world. To stay in the game<\/a>, the chefs must cook at their best while contending with a Quickfire using ingredients used on the Oregon Trail and\u202fa surf and turf elimination challenge honoring the\u202fConfederated Tribes of the Umatilla\u202fIndian Reservation.While in the \u201cCity of Roses,\u201d the judges definitely don\u2019t hold back their thorns as they narrow it down to find this season\u2019s Top Chef<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The winning chef will earn the coveted title of Top Chef<\/i>, $250,000 furnished by S.Pellegrino\u00ae Sparkling Natural Mineral Water, a feature in\u202fFOOD & WINE\u202fmagazine and an appearance at the annual\u202fFOOD & WINE Classic\u202fin Aspen.\u202f\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out a preview<\/a> for the new season of Top Chef<\/i> below.<\/p>\n