Thursday, June 19, 2008

Top Chef Meets Big Apple - NYC's Television Addicted Foodies Rejoice!

On Monday, New York Magazine's "Grub Street" blog posted an delicious tidbit from Snack that the upcoming season of Bravo's "Top Chef" will take place in New York.

It should be interesting to see how the new "chef-testants" fair in the most competative city in the world for restauranteurs. But as the saying goes, if they can make it here, they can make it anywhere.

Although New York culinary staples Tom Colicchio, Anthony Bourdain, Daniel Boulud, Wylie Dufresne and Eric Ripert all appear on previous Top Chef seasons, the potential guest list for Top Chef: New York is endless. If Gordon Ramsey doesn't have a special contract with Fox, it would be amazing to see him stop by for a quickfire or two... unless they're saving him for a potential Top Chef: London showdown (...which, by the way, would be genius!)

There's a good chance previous winner Hung Huynh will fill one of those slots, but hopefully Season four's villianous Lisa will never return to the Top Chef stage. At the reunion, which aired on Wednesday night, she continued her reign as the most inexplicably pompous and obnoxious contestant ever. (Note to Lisa: You replaced fellow contestant Spike at Mai House... not head judge Colicchio at Craft... get off your high-horse already!)

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