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.
Three spinoffs extending the Top Chef
brand are planned: Bravo has ordered
Top Chef Junior, featuring contestants in their early teens
[Bravo orders new 'Top Chef Junior' spinoff for young teenage chefs]; a second spinoff began airing in June 2009 and is called
Top Chef: Masters, featuring "some of the brightest stars in the world of food, award-winning, widely-renowned chefs," according to Bravo's press release.
[Bravo announces plans for new Top Chef: Masters spinoff] A third spinoff,
Top Chef: Just Desserts has been ordered.
[ www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/bravo-announces-top-chef-just-desserts Bravo TV.com Retrievd on October 26 ]
Show format
Basic format
Each episode of
Top Chef, save for the finale, has had two challenges.
