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Top Chef Cruise Adds Fabio Viviani, Hubert Keller Dance Party

Once again the good people at Bravo have found a way to delight us and scare the pants off of us at the same time. The cable network that has given us all those Real Housewives, Rachel Zoe, and Padma Lakshmi know how to put on a good train wreck. So now it's time for the most awesome shipwreck of al ... More >>

Top Chef Cruise Sets Sail From Miami in April

Calling all Miami Top Chef fans. Clear your calendars because you're about to set sail on the Top Chef cruise.That's right, mateys. Top Chef: The Cruise sets sail April 11, 2013 from the Port of Miami. The cruise, on board the Celebrity Constellation, will give fans of the Bravo cooking competition ... More >>

Swine Southern Table & Bar to Open in Coral Gables

Run, piggy, run is the phrase we'll be hearing in Coral Gables when Swine Southern Table & Bar opens at 2415 Ponce de Leon Blvd. in the former Les Halles space this fall. The restaurant will be helmed by Top Chef alum Kenny Gilbert, who is working in the kitchen at Yardbird Southern Tab ... More >>

Around The World in 80 Plates: A Cooking Show That's Not Really About Cooking

In the cable television equivalent of a librarian turning into a call girl, Bravo television has reinvented itself. It used to be the channel for quality television centered on the performing arts, now it's a channel filled with people who need their meds refilled (or the dosage upped). Top Chef con ... More >>

Gail Simmons: Let's Try an Eggstravaganza

​Gail Simmons has a lot on her plate, so to speak. She's just added author to her already insane resume as Top Chef judge, Top Chef:Just Desserts host, and special projects director for Food & Wine magazine.Gail's memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life As a Professional Eater was just rel ... More >>

LuAnn de Lesseps in Miami Sunday: A Real New York City Housewife Who Can Cook

​If you're a fan of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York, you might want to get over the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Grand Tasting Village on Sunday at 3:15 p.m., to enjoy Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, who will be giving a cooking demo. Yep, one of the Housewives is in town with her daughte ... More >>

Skinnygirl's Bethenny Frankel Invited: When You Lose the $120 Million, C'mon to Miami!

Bethenny Frankel is being sued by former agent​At this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Bethenny Frankel, the loud-mouthed token "single girl" on Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York attempted to prepare stuffed peppers, but the standing-room-only crowd of women wanted stories ... More >>

Three's Company

Top Chef All-Stars Premieres Tonight

Matthias Clamer/Bravo ​Top Chef Season Eight premieres tonight with a cast of all-stars (contestants from previous seasons who didn't take the title) and it sounds like we may be in for a treat. It really won't take much for this season to outshine Top Chef: Washington, D.C. -- likely the worst s ... More >>

Has Bravo Secretly Been Filming Real Housewives of Miami?

photo by Bill CookeUnfortunately, Real Housewives of Hialeah remains but a dream. ​Miami seems like the perfect location for a spin-off of the Reality TV behemoth Real Housewives franchise that Bravo has unleashed on the world. Though, when The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premiers next month ... More >>

Free Dessert Day Tomorrow!

Photo by Scott Schafer/BravoThe judges of Top Chef Just Desserts: Johnny Iuzzini, Gail Simmons, Hubert Keller, and Dannielle Kyrillos.​This just in: Tomorrow is Free Dessert Day, sponsored by Bravo and OpenTable in honor of the show Top Chef Just Desserts premiering at 11 p.m. What does this mean ... More >>

The Return of Top Chef: Season Premiere Recap

Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoGo Andrea, go!Season seven of Top Chef launched last night and it was great to see a very buxom Padma Lakshmi and no-nonsense Tom Colicchio return to the airwaves. This version of Top Chef is set in Washington D.C., and the puns about cooking in our nation's capital en ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein To Be A Judge on Top Chef Once Again

Photo by Jacquelynn D. PowersMichelle Bernstein. ​Last night at a casual dinner at Michy's, Short Order found out that chef/proprietor Michelle Bernstein judged an episode of the new season of Top Chef, which begins this Wednesday night on Bravo. While Bernstein has officiated Top Chef in the past ... More >>

Bravo's Project Runway-esque Work of Art Looks Amazing, Leaves out Miami Artists

​When Bravo announced it would air a Project Runway-like show with artists produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, we were intrigued, to say the least. We actually got excited when Miami was picked as one of the four cities to host a casting call last summer. That went down at the Frederic Snitzer ... More >>

Is Bravo Making Another Go at Miami Social?

Our favorite reality show that we loved to hate, Miami Social, didn't do so well in the ratings. So it seemed it wouldn't get a second season.But industry bible the the Hollywood Reporter says Bravo is adding a fifth franchise to the Real Housewives series. No, not in Miami, but ... More >>

Chef Douglas Rodriguez Speaks: Will Return to His Roots with New Upscale Cuban Restaurant at the Hotel Astor

Marsha TalianoffBack in the day is coming back. That's Rodriguez on the far left.​Although he calls Miami his home, we don't often hear much about what Chef Douglas Rodriguez is up to locally.  Sure, he still owns and operates OLA in the Sanctuary Hotel (among other restaurants in Philadelph ... More >>

We Don’t Want Peace in This War

Top Chef 7 Miami Casting, In Pictures

Jacob KatelProspective Top Chef contestants shoot the shit while they wait their turn to see the casting director.​Top Chef 7 is officially on its way to your signal box, and Magical Elves, the production company behind the hit Bravo series, was in Miami on Sunday looking for talent. Prospective c ... More >>

Locust Projects Presents an Evening With Top Chef's Jeff McInnis

Click image for full size.​Thursday, October 22, at Locust Projects (155 NE 38 Street) Jeff McInnis, executive chef of DiLido Beach Club restaurant at the Ritz Carlton South Beach will cook for and talk to a crowd in the Design District.Jeff McInnis was a contestant on season five of the hit Bravo ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Lee Schrager, Top Chef, and Bacon Camp

Man wants tacos so bad he's willing to kill for them.....maybe he'll like the ones in prison...if they find him. [Herald]Mayor Daley from Chicago says "I'm moving to Miami, where there are no taxes on food and no state income tax." [ChicagoTribune]Lee Schrager talks about getting asked to unclog toi ... More >>

National Media Weighs in on Pitbull's Rebelution

​Pitbull's new album, Rebelution, officially came out yesterday, though in these parts we've been hearing lead singles "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" and "Hotel Room Service" (and even "Krazy") for what seems like forever already. And because Pitbull seems like such a Miami phenomenon, it's alm ... More >>

Miami Social: All Mediocre Things Must Come to an End

via BravoTV​Last night's season, if not series, finale of Miami Social left us with more questions than answers. Such as who was that other man Lina was talking to? Are Trixia and Hardy ever going to settle down? Does Ariel actually have a bit of decency? Unfortunately, low ratings, no reun ... More >>

Tweet-Watching Reality: Top Chef Masters

TwitterIn it together​Back in prehistoric times, you'd call up a friend and watch your favorite TV show together.  You'd laugh, maybe you'd both call out one of the characters for doing something stupid -- or each other for disagreeing on that assessment.  Maybe you'd give your undivided ... More >>

Miami Social: The Importance of Finding Your Inner Whore

via BravoTV​ Last night, Bravo once again broadcast a world it calls "Miami." A place where becoming a "fashion designer" is as easy as hiring a kid fresh out of design school to create a line for you. A place where a manipulative, lying, borderline sociopathic lady is worth holding on to. A place ... More >>

D-List Diva

Miami Social: Cold War Kids

via BravoTV​Last night's Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can't have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama a ... More >>

Reality-TV People Continue to Do Things in Miami

Oh look, a hotelier is allegedly dating a Bravo reality star. No, we're not talking about Baron Hilton and PC Peterson. According to Life & Style, André Balazs and Kelly Bensimon were seen "getting close" during fashion week. Balazs owns The Standard and The Raleigh and for years dated act ... More >>

Miami Social Photo Op: Is There Such a Thing as Bad Publicity?

Jeffrey Boan/BravoThe cast of Miami Social, (Sorah Daiha, Ariel Stein, Katrina Campins, George French, Maria Lankina, Michael Cohen, and Hardy Hill) celebrate at the series' premiere party at Louis Bar-Lounge in the Gansevoort South on July 9.The internets seem to be at a consensus about Miami Socia ... More >>

More Beauty for Your Buck

The 31 Days of Relaxation

Miami Social Set to Debut Next Month

Possible cast for Miami Social: George French, Hardy Hill, Sorah Daiha, Katrina Campins, Michael H. Cohen, Maria Lankina, and Ariel Stein.Word around town is that an air date has finally been set for Miami's latest reality series (being billed as a "docu-drama"). Details from Bravo TV's Miami Socia ... More >>

The Fashion Show: Tinsley Mortimer Makes Us Nervous Too

from BravoTV.comBeing a blogger is a lot like being on a reality TV fashion competition show: some crazy man locks you in a small, depressing room for hours at a time and asks you to complete multiple, seemingly random tasks with ridiculously short deadlines and few resources and then the finished p ... More >>

Miami-Based Designer Cast in Bravo's Project Runway Replacement

Today marks the end of the gayest squabble in TV history since the great Paul Lynde-Charles Nelson Reilly game-show feud of the '70s. The Weinstein Company and NBC Universal have finally settled their legal battle over Project Runway. The Result? ProjRun's sixth season will air as planned on ... More >>

Jeff McInnis Says Bravo Used Him As A "Sex Object"

Trying keeping your shirt on, buddy.You just couldn't let it go Jeff? After getting kicked off of Top Chef this week, DiLido Beach Club chef Jeff McInnis spoke to People magazine about how he feels that Bravo used him a "sex object" for the show.Reality check McInnis, there is only one sex object on ... More >>

Make Me a Supermodel Returns with a Miami Catwalker

We haven't been watching much Bravo since the last (and final?) season of Project Runway, but sort-of-vain local chef Jeff is still in the running on Top Chef. Now he'll have another Miami native joining him on the cable channel. Meet Laury, a 23-year-old "freelance model" who was born and lives in ... More >>

An Interview With Ted Allen

C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

Top Chef Fires Up Tonight With SoBe Chef

Top Chef Fires Up Tonight With SoBe Chef

DiLido Beach Club's Jeff McInnis Contestant in Upcoming Season of Top Chef

She’s a Fragile Effin’ Flower

Calling all gals and gays — Kathy Griffin’s in the house!

Faux Hawked Kendall Hair Dresser is Shear Genius

Dee Could Be Crowned Shear Genius

Pretty in the City – Could You Be the Next Shear Genius?

Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

National "Make it Work" Day

Dogs Playing Poker

Gambling lads get their fix in Dealer's Choice

Vive le Cirque

Performance art soars to new heights under the blue-and-yellow grand chapiteau

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