SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Chefs Featured In Season 22 Cast of 'Top Chef' On Season 22 of Bravo's Top Chef, which was shot in multiple locations across Canada and premieres tonight (Thursday, March 13) at 9 pm, two chefs from the Bay Area are among the competitors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs From Dalida, Mourad, and Shuggie's All Part of 'Top Chef' Season 21 Cast Three out of the cast of 15 of the upcoming Top Chef season hail from San Francisco kitchens, which puts the odds of the show crowning a new local celebrity chef at one in five.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Soul Food Destination Brown Sugar Kitchen Has Permanently Closed A nearly 15-year ride that made chef Tanya Holland a soul food celebrity has come to an end, as Brown Sugar Kitchen announces it will not be reopening its doors after its holiday hiatus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Melissa King To Appear On 12th Season of <i>Top Chef</i>, Premiering In October Recent Luce sous chef Melissa King, who has ten years experience in the Bay Area fine dining scene, has landed a place in the cast of Top Chef's 12th season, which premieres October
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alumna Heading To Saison The star-chef wattage in SoMa just got brighter, at least for those of you who consider chefs celebrities. Grayson Schmitz, who appeared on season 9 of Top Chef's Texas cycle, can now be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Top Chef-er Casey Thompson To Open Aveline Near Union Square Former Dallas chef Casey Thompson, who relocated to the Bay Area in 2008 shortly after her Top Chef Season 3 appearance, is finally opening her own spot here. As the Chron is reporting,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alum Jen Biesty To Open Shakewell Bar & Kitchen In Oakland Local chef Jen Biesty and her partner in (pastry) crime Tim Nugent have nailed down a location near Oakland's Grand Lake district for a new Mediterranean-influenced, "Americlectic" spot they're called Shakewell Bar &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino To Win 'Top Chef Masters' Tonight (Probably) Though we predicted that Traci Des Jardins would nab the title last time around—we still think she should have won!—we are once again almost certain that a local will win. Incanto's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Auditions Coming To S.F. Top Chef will hit its tenth season this year, and they are looking for San Francisco-based gastronomic talent for the big one-zero. Might you be the next cheftestant? While Bravo's food competition show
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yigit Pura: Pastry Chef Turned Reality TV Blogger Yigit Pura, San Francisco's own delightful cupcake of a pastry chef and proprietor of the coming-soon Tout Sweet pastry shop is adding "TV Critic" to his resume. Yigit, who you'll remember won the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top Chef Masters Menu at Jardiniere Tonight A few days before this season's finale of Top Chef Masters airs, Traci Des Jardins will serve some of the dishes that landed her in the final three. Made under pressure and without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins To Compete On 'Top Chef Masters' Traci Des Jardins - noted chef/owner of Hayes Valley's Jardinière; AT&T Park's Public House & Mijita; and Lake Tahoe's Manzanita - will appear on the next season of Top Chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yigit Pura, S.F. Local, Wins <em>Top Chef: Just Desserts</em> An astounding spin-off of the popular Top Chef -- because pastry chefs are a wacky bunch, to say the least -- last night's season finale of Top Chef: Just Desserts was extra sweet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef</em> Finale Resumes in Sonoma Tonight The trio still standing on Bravo's Top Chef comprises The Brothers Voltaggio (brusque, tattooed, envelope-pushing Michael and staid, straight-laced, classically trained Bryan) and beardy Kevin from Atlanta, who has proven that simple food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Las Vegas</em> Will Finish Season In Wine Country For the final couple of episodes, the cast of Bravo's ever so popular chef showdown relocated from Sin City to our neck of the woods, staying at the Le Mars Hotel in Healdsburg
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef 7</em> Open Casting Call, 10/18 Although we find this season particularly listless -- for reasons we can't put our finger on, exactly -- Top Chef will return for another cycle of fast-paced cooking and egregious under-salting. And with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Master Chefs Compete On Tonight's <i>Top Chef Masters</i> As SFist Deborah and your editor took advantage of Orson's first-ever lunch service today (we both recommend the fried chicken sandwich on parmesan bun, complete with expertly fried dark meat that made us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," local chef Jamie Lauren made crab, NOT scallops. Quickfire Challenge. Eric Ripert was the guest judge and the challenge had three parts. Part one, clean and butterfly two sardines
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," local chef Jamie Lauren did NOT make scallops. Quickfire Challenge: Make some thing for guest judge Scott Conant. It involved a stupid "Superbowl pool" type of assignment system, with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef": Scallops. And also, an episode we only got to see half of because of a screwed up recording, and a complete lack of desire to seek out another airing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously on "Top Chef," Jamie made scallops. Twice. This past week on "Top Chef," Jamie made scallops. Yes, again. Let's see what one of her fellow chefs thought about that. You know what?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV We're back from our little holiday hiatus. Did you miss us? (Don't answer that.) Luckily, "Top Chef" has been on hiatus too. So try to remember back two weeks when that last new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV First up, Stefan professed his love, or lust, for Jamie, by giving her a stuffed animal. Because if anything can cut through the lesbian shield, it's a stuffed dog! Quickfire Challenge! Palate testing!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Previously to that, we had the awesome episode where they blindsided Randy and it was awesome in its awesomeness. Post-tribal council Bob was peeved about all the laughing that went on over Randy's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Quickfire Challenge! With guest judge Grant Achatz. The challenge was to put "their own spin" on a recipe assigned to them from the Top Chef cook book. La la la they're going along,
