Top Chef is an American reality competition television series that premiered on March 8, 2006, on Bravo. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the company that created Project Runway. The show has spawned multiple spin-off series, including Top Chef Masters, featuring established award-winning chefs, and Top Chef Just Desserts, featuring pastry chefs. Top Chef Junior, which features contestants in their early teens, premiered in October 2017 on Universal Kids. A spin-off featuring home cooks, Top Chef Amateurs, is scheduled to premiere in July 2021. Numerous international adaptations of Top Chef have also been produced.
| Genre | Reality competition, Cooking show |
| Presented by | Katie Lee (season 1), Padma Lakshmi (season 2–) |
| Judges | Current, Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, (season 1-15, 17-), Former, Ted Allen, (season 3–4), Toby Young, (season 5–6), Eric Ripert, (season 7), Anthony Bourdain, (season 8), Hugh Acheson, (season 9-12), Emeril Lagasse, (season 9-11, 13), Wolfgang Puck, (season 10), Richard Blais, (season 12-14), Graham Elliot, (season 14-16), Nilou Motamed, (season 16) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 17 |
| No. of episodes | 260 |
| Executive producer(s) | Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Magical Elves Productions |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Original network | Bravo |
| Netflix ID | 70153395 |
About Top Chef
Culinary competition series in which chefs take on various challenges to be judged by a panel of professional chefs and other members of the food and wine industries. Katie Lee presented season one before Padma Lakshmi took over for the long-run beginning in season two.
Achievement of Top Chef
Judges have included Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Graham Elliot, Ted Allen, Eric Ripert, Anthony Bourdain, Emeril Lagasse and others. It spawned spinoff series such as Top Chef Masters, Top Chef: Just Desserts and Top Chef Junior.
Top Facts You Did Not Know About Top Chef
Top Chef Category.. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program winners.. Television series by Magical Elves.
