Subject: Top Chef (TV Show)

• Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

  October 3, 2007

• Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

  October 3, 2007

• Must See (Public Access) TV – Will Rudy Crew Survive?

  August 5, 2008

• Top Chef Fires Up Tonight With SoBe Chef

  November 12, 2008

• Top Chef Fires Up Tonight With SoBe Chef

  November 12, 2008

• All the Nasty Bits from an Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali

  Elyse Wanshel Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain at the Miami Book Fair International Thursday night. Although former junkie/gutter chef, Anthony Bourdain claims that his life is “all rainbows and unicorns” ever since the birth of his baby daughter, many of his random comments during last night’s “Evening With” talk with fellow chef Mario Batali still had lots of bite. Here’s all the nasty bits: According to Romania, Bourdain is linked to the KGB. Big ladies with an appetite for

  November 14, 2008

• Last Night: Anthony Bourdain at the Arsht Center

  This man loves Mac's Club Deuce. (Reason No. 293 why we love this man.) Better Than: Pounding cheap beers between a soul-crushing double on the saute station. The evidence, plainly, is undeniable: the best-selling books, the top-rated Travel Channel Show, the Top Chef judging gigs. Hell, even the playbills posted outside the Arsht Center spell out the cold reality in cruel red letters: Anthony Bourdain is a celebrity chef. But after spending a couple hours with the guy at the Arsht Center

  November 14, 2008

• 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 featured celebrity host, Ted Allen, who was there promoting his new cookbook, The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes. In between stuffing our faces with sweets, New Times got a chance to sit

  December 15, 2008

• Top Chef and Barilla: For the Foodie in All of Us

  Whitney RouxProduct Placement at its finest. "You have to respect your ingredients. You have to respect the food." This according to Top Chef Ilan Hall is the recipe for success. Other advice to amateur foodies included the typical "start at the bottom, even if it means peeling garlic." And then keep a clean workspace. However his brief answer left me wondering what does it take to be a top chef?

  February 23, 2009

• Feed me, Colicchio

  March 19, 2009

• Is That a Spatula in Your Pocket?

  February 19, 2009

• Miami's Dining Scene Goes Big League

  December 25, 2008

• The Piano Man's Sugar Baby Went Sour in Miami

  via minds-eye's Flickr/CCGawker is reporting that Billy Joel and wife, the 27-year-old Katie Lee, are separating and that some lies and deception may have been involved. And you know that where there's L & D, there's Miamiiiiii! Apparently, Miss Katie, former (and booring, compared to Padma) host of Bravo's Top Chef and sandwich fixer at the SoBe Food & Wine Festival, was seen getting frisky with Israeli fashion designer Yigal Azrouel, in NY and dirty dancing in our lil' ol' town. They e

  June 18, 2009

• Bravo and Sarah Jessica Parker Casting for Project Runway-Like Art Show

  via Art.comSarah Jessica Parker's production company and the production team behind hits such as Project Runway and Top Chef have been talking about a similar series set in the art world, and this month they're finally casting.Reads the news release: "In each episode of the series, contestants will create unique pieces highlighting art's role in everyday life, while they compete and create in a range of disciplines including sculpture, painting, photography, and industrial design (to name a fe

  July 1, 2009

• Food News Roundup - Haiti, Cuba, Hunger, Top Chef, Nachos, and Opium

  Rotten food donations leave Haitians hungry. [SunJournal]Wal Mart Stores experiments with latin themed super store Mas Club, while Winn Dixie adds signs in Spanish and stocks ethnic merchandise. [WallStreetJournal]Florida Chef Ron Duprat represents for Miami Haitians on upcoming season of Bravo's Top Chef [Bradenton Herald]World recession means less food for Cubans. [CubaHeadlines]Free nachos when you buy a pitcher at Flannigan's on Mondays. [NBCMiami]On July 23rd Prive' and the Living Room Las

  August 10, 2009

• 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 attention to the screen and save the commentary for commercial break.  Boy, have times changed with Twitter.

  August 13, 2009

• Arts & Eats Guide 2009

  October 1, 2009

• 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 toilets at early South Beach Wine and Food Fest. [NYPost]Top Chef renewed for 2010 by Bravo, season 7 casting calls coming to Miami soon. [Variety]Bill Marriott talks about "see-through condos in South F

  October 6, 2009

• 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 TV show Top Chef."Who doesn't like Top Chef?" asked Chana Sheldon, director of Locust Projects, when we called her.New Times: People without TVs.Chana: Yeah, I guess you're right. This is a part of o

  October 13, 2009

• 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 contestants turned up for a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. casting call at Club 50 in Brickell's Viceroy. Chefs from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Coconut Creek, Tampa, Orlando, and even Jamaica showed up for the chance t

  October 27, 2009

• Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Pumpkinhead

  Via flickr wxmomHappy Halloween!​Don't rot your teeth out eating too much candy this weekend. Here are our highlight posts from this week.Local takes on worst dining trends of the year. Communist tables.Renzo's of Boca, Miami Dolphins Football Meatball video.Doral Farmers Market starts tomorrow.What Obama ate for dinner when he was in Miami.Top Chef 7 casting at Club 50 at the Viceroy.Table 8's Josh Woodward arrested in Los Angeles.Smoked Salmon and Dungeness Crab Napoleon style, but where it

  October 30, 2009

• American Idol for Amateur Cooks: Casting Call in Miami Announced for New Gordon Ramsay Series, Master Chef

  Fox BroadcastingDo you have the bollocks?​First there was the original kitchen battle from Japan, Iron Chef.  Then came Food Network's Iron Chef America, Fox's Hell's Kitchen, and Bravo's Top Chef series; Top Chef Masters soon followed.  You would think the pot has boiled over, but no!  Cue Fox's MasterChef, a new competitive cooking show from the unlikely marriage of the producers behind the most uplifting show on television, The Biggest Loser, and internationally-acclaimed che

  December 7, 2009

• Cayman Cookout Chef Interview: Host Eric Ripert Shares How to Eat Local On-Island, Proves Chivalry is not Dead

  If you have your pointer finger on the pulse of the global food community and its star chefs, you would know this past weekend was the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman's second annual Cayman Cookout.  We're speaking of the island rendezvous of illustrious professional cooks including Jose Andrés, David Chang, Dean Fearing, Grant Achatz, and Anthony Bourdain, joined by our own trailblazing talent Cindy Hutson, Dean Max, Michael Schwartz, Sara Mair (Top Chef 3,) and Paula Desilva (of Hell's Kitche

  January 20, 2010

• Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

  ​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any of the festival events at this stage, but this year you still have a few options.Forget the Amstel Light Burger Bash hosted by Rachael Ray on Thursday, February 25. The burger-and-beer extravaganza f

  February 16, 2010

• Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

  ​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any of the festival events at this stage, but this year you still have a few options.Forget the Amstel Light Burger Bash hosted by Rachael Ray on Thursday, February 25. The burger-and-beer extravaganza f

  February 16, 2010

• Burger Bash Sneak Peek at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach

  As the host chef of South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash, Thomas Connell has a leg up on the competition. Not only are all of the 27 burgers in contention prepared on-site at his kitchen at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, but he also helps the contestants with their culinary needs. As the executive chef of the hotel, Connell has participated in the Burger Bash since its inception four years ago. His previous entries were a tempura burger, pretzel burger and empanada burger. Photos by

  February 17, 2010

• SBWFF 2010: Sunday Afternoon at the Grand Tasting Village; Bourdain, Ripert Face-Off

  We spent Sunday afternoon at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Whole Foods Grand Tasting Village, walking around the massive tents around 13th and Ocean tasting mostly liquor. It's no secret that this event has become less about the bites and more about the booze -- well, and the celebrity chefs -- but not everyone seems to have a problem with that. Photo by djkmia​This year, your wine glass was filled before you even went inside and there seemed to be more spirits than wine. There we

  March 1, 2010