Top Chef

About

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.

Trivia

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.