Top Chef: The End. Seriously.
The episode is kind of a blur to me, and kind of a letdown. Ultimately I felt that -- surprise -- Lisa should not have been there.
The episode is kind of a blur to me, and kind of a letdown. Ultimately I felt that -- surprise -- Lisa should not have been there.
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
The Season 4 finale of Bravo's "Top Chef" on Wednesday drew 3.5 million total viewers and 2.5 million adults 18-49 to become the most-watched cable te...
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — It took four seasons, but a woman finally took the top spot on Bravo's "Top Chef." Stephanie Izard, a 31-year-old, mild-mannered che...
Jane McGivney | Posted 06.09.2008 | Entertainment
It's Puerto Rico and the chefs are arriving!
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment
Since you can't wait until next Thursday to watch Bravo's A-List Awards, let me give you an insider's recap, because, ahem, I was there Tuesday night when they taped it at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.
Jane McGivney | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment
Spike The Butcher goes for Tomahawk steaks & frozen scallops. Frozen scallops! Ack! This is not good! Lisa says, "Initially I wanted scallops, but they're.....frozen."
Reuters | Posted 05.28.2008 | Entertainment
Now you know networks are hurting: Reality-show budgets are being cut. Long considered the cheapest of programming genres, reality programs increasin...
Jane McGivney | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
I really think it should have been Spike kicked out. He had an amazing advantage and he cooked the most uncreative dish of all time. At least Andrew tried!
Broadcasting & Cable | Anne Becker | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media
Bravo Media is striking new partnerships to sell everything from cruises to cookbooks tied to its shows, in an effort to take its brand name beyond te...
Jane McGivney | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment
We open up with Spike making a coffee - which gives me a strange pang of kinship with Spike: Oh no, I also love coffee! Yikes! On to the quickfire! Q...
Jane McGivney | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment
Nikki is being criticized for not making her own sausage, and Ryan is being faulted for basically not cooking tailgate. Ryan goes into a really, really long tangent about his style and life.
Jane McGivney | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment
This is the episode where everyone goes crazy. There is chair kicking, pantomime crotch grabbing and also some cooking.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 03.25.2008 | Entertainment
It's going to be hard to beat this in the Top Chef Quickfire Challenge. Paul Prudhomme, the New Orleans chef who made blackened redfish a staple of...
Jane McGivney | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment
The challenge is to cater a cocktail party for 200 people, for the Lincoln Park Zoo, and each dish must be based around the diet of the animal they are assigned to. Our guest judge is Wylie Dufresne!
Jane McGivney | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment
We start off with the usual city shots of Chicago as our new friends arrive. The first thing I notice as the chefs show up is that there isn't anyone I'm into this season. Which is to say, obsessed with.
Elissa Altman | Posted 12.30.2007 | Living
Food writers are often a hungry, wistful lot, gazing about the world through muddy rose colored glasses that can only be rendered clean by a few hours over a hot stove.
Jane McGivney | Posted 10.05.2007 | Entertainment
I think this season has been an interesting one for Top Chef. Dare I say, it was no less than a battle between the forces of good & evil!
Jane McGivney | Posted 09.27.2007 | Entertainment
We're at the semifinals in Aspen. We have some lovely shots of mountains, smoky streams, and....AGH!...my retinas explode.
Jane McGivney | Posted 09.13.2007 | Entertainment
Hung makes a smoothie with Gran Marnier and says, "I also put a little alcohol in it...for Padma." Sarah says of Mommy Dearest Padma, "we know she likes alcohol..." and then realizes how bad it sounds.
AP | Posted 09.12.2007 | Entertainment
A Miami woman who was a former contestant on the reality show "Top Chef" was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said Tuesday. Jos...
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Jane McGivney | Posted 06.15.2008 | Entertainment