Top Chef season 8

Top Chef is an American reality competition show that airs on the cable television network Bravo, in which chefs compete 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 same company that created Project Runway.

The show has produced two spin-offs: Top Chef: Masters, featuring established, award-winning chefs, and Top Chef: Just Desserts, featuring pastry chefs. Two more spin-offs are planned: Top Chef Junior, featuring contestants in their early teens, and Top Chef Canada, produced by Food Network Canada.

Top Chef: All-Stars is the eighth season of American reality television series Top Chef and was filmed first in New York City, New York. The season will premiere on December 1, 2010.

Judges

• Tom Colicchio (Head Judge)
• Padma Lakshmi (Host)
• Gail Simmons (Judge)
• Anthony Bourdain (Judge)

Bourdain is new to the show as a judge in Season 8. Colicchio, Lakshmi and Simmons returned from Season 7.

Contestants

There are 18 past Top Chef contestants competing in Season 8. Names below are from the Bravo website. In alphabetical order:

• Elia Aboumrad, Season 2
• Stephen Asprinio, Season 1
• Richard Blais, Season 4
• Jennifer Carroll, Season 6
• Tiffany Derry, Season 7
• Tiffani Faison, Season 1
• Carla Hall, Season 5
• Mike Isabella, Season 6
• Jamie Lauren, Season 5
• Dale Levitski, Season 3
• Antonia Lofaso, Season 4
• Spike Mendelsohn, Season 4
• Angelo Sosa, Season 7
• Dale Talde, Season 4
• Casey Thompson, Season 3
• Marcel Vigneron, Season 2
• Fabio Viviani, Season 5
• Tre Wilcox, Season 3