Reality Competition Shows

Sang Yoon and Neal Fraser to Compete on Top Chef Masters Season 5

Bravo has announced the lineup for Top Chef Masters' fifth season, and L.A. has a few horses in the race. Sang Yoon, of Father's Office and Lukshon, and Neal Fraser of the Strand House and Fritzi Dog, will be part of the 13-chef cast competing for money for a charity of their choice. Yoon will compe ... More >>

The Ballad of Nellie Oleson

Reality Is the First Great Film About Bad TV

Jekyll & Hyde

Dance Dance Revolution

Paul Scheer is Everywhere!

The Taste Debuts Tomorrow with Judges Bourdain, Ludo, Nigella Lawson Brian Malarkey

When a chef sees something he likes, he inevitably wants to make it, but better and with his own twist. Perhaps that was the rationale behind culinary luminaries like L.A. favorite Ludo Lefebvre and Anthony Bourdain of Travel Channel fame, hitching their wagons to The Taste, a new reality competitio ... More >>

Fabio Viviani on Life After Top Chef Why "Success Is Personal"

See also: Top Chef Tour: Richard Blais vs. Fabio Viviani at Hollywood & Highland See also: Top Chef Masters Recap: "Do You Want to Be Comforted, or Do You Want to Be Thrilled?" It's 10:00 a.m., and chef Fabio Viviani is eating cereal with chocolate milk. "Whole grain Cheerios, because fiber is good ... More >>

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Elimination Night by Anonymous: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Howdy, Sailor ... It's Top Chef, The Cruise!

Just when Top Chef apathy has reached a crippling level of "I just don't care any more," the brilliant marketing minds at Bravo have come up with a new way to garner cash interest. It's Top Chef ... on a boat!!

Celebration of Dance

Cats For Cats

Producers Casting for (Sure-to-Fail) Chef Romance Show: Chef Wants a Wife

You know what would be awful great? A show that's like a cross between Top Chef and the Millionaire Matchmaker! Well, fret not, such a thing is about to exist. Barf Yay!

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Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking about). ... More >>

Dance to the Future

Kelly Clarkson - Nokia Theatre - 4/3/12

Kelly Clarkson Nokia Theatre 4/3/12 Better than...a Taylor Hicks concert She was once a doughy waitress longing for a chance at stardom, appearing on an unheard-of contest show to make her dreams to come true, but now Kelly Clarkson is a bonafide superstar. After 10 years in the public eye, the wi ... More >>

No Kitchen Required Around the World in 80 Plates: Does the food still matter?

It takes a special kind of chef to sign up for a competition show. When it comes to cooking, it's much easier, really, to stay in your own kitchen, keep your nose to the saucepan and crank out the best food you know how without the aggravation of mystery ingredients and a ticking clock. But that's ... More >>

Free Food Truck Fest Tonight: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor

Tonight starting at 5:30 p.m., BBC America will host a free food truck fest at the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot at Main and Ocean to promote the premiere of No Kitchen Required. The new reality competition show is a sort of Top Chef-meets-Survivor battle in which a trio of chefs "are dropped off in ... More >>

William Hung Speaks, Fresh Off Being Crowned The Greatest Musician Of All Time, In Any Genre

​See also: Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: The Complete List Last week we crowned former American Idol contestant William Hung the greatest musician of all time, in any genre, beating out luminaries including Beethoven, the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Guido D'Arezzo, the guy who ... More >>

Nathan Myhrvold on Top Chef: Who Will Be the "Modern-est?"

Nathan Myrhvold​Even if you're kind of over Top Chef (Quickfire challenges! Padma in halter tops!), you might want to tune in tonight to check it out. Because tonight's guest judge is none other than Nathan Myhrvold, the man behind Modernist Cuisine, which 6-volume set is the contestants' home ... More >>

LA Beer Float Showdown, Part III: Bigger, Bolder, Top Chef-ier

Food GPSA scene from last year's showdown at Verdugo Bar​ No LA Beer Week would be complete without an LA Beer Float Showdown, just as no ice cream would be complete without... beer? A sugary sacrilege to some, and a boozy benediction to others, beer floats symbolize the unique strain of genre ... More >>

Top Chef Amanda Baumgarten Out at Water Grill

Top ChefChef Amanda Baumgarten.​After only seven months, Top Chef season 7 contestant Amanda Baumgarten is out as executive chef at downtown's Water Grill. Baumgarten was promoted from sous chef in mid-February to fill the shoes of chef David LeFevre, who left in September 2010 to open his own ... More >>

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Top 10 Most Interesting Things We Learned on a Top Chef Masters Conference Call with Curtis Stone, Ruth Reichl and James Oseland

Photo courtesy of Bravo.Host Curtis Stone, and Judges Ruth Reichl and James Oseland​We spent the better part of Tuesday morning on a Top Chef Masters conference call, in which myriad media reps listened on mute while Season 3 host Curtis Stone and judges Ruth Reichl and James Oseland chatted a ... More >>

The Foundry Hosts Top Chef Casting Call

Photo by Felicia FriesemaChef Eric Greenspan​The Foundry on Melrose will be ground zero for celebrity chef wannabes as the restaurant hosts a casting call for Top Chef on Monday, March 14th between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The casting call is double duty. Producers will be looking both for season 9 ... More >>

Wanna See an Ice Sculpture of Justin Bieber's Head? Of Course You Do!

courtesy Food Network​ The Food Network has just sent us today's incredibly strange image: a man proudly displaying an ice sculpture of Justin Bieber's head. From the Food Network: This morning on Good Day LA, Randy Finch (focus of Food Network's new primetime series, Ice Brigade, premierin ... More >>

Water Grill Names Amanda Baumgarten Executive Chef: Top Chef Not the Reason, She Says

Top Chef​Just as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz told us, sometimes our heart's desire is no further than our own backyard. That was certainly the case for the owners of Water Grill who, after a nationwide search for a new executive chef, recently decided on Sous Chef Amanda Baumgarten to fill t ... More >>

Ballroom With a Twist

MARTIN MULL SHOULD SUE!

Bristol Palin's Last Supper: Thank You, TMZ

We owe TMZ so much. News of what William Shatner is wearing. The details of Charlie Sheen's $20,000 text messages. Pictures of Ryan Seacrest doing pretty much everything, from exiting Mozza to walking around Paris with his parents. Now we know exactly what Bristol Palin and the rest of the Dancing w ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Officially Announced With 18 Runner-Up Contestants

Bravo​ Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that the rumors of a Top Chef All-Stars season are true! TV Guide Magazine released an official report from Bravo that the upcoming eighth run of the Emmy award-winning competitive cooking show will include an all-star cast of eighteen runners-up from p ... More >>

Top ChefUpdate: Season 7 Winner, Season 8 Rumors Top Chef: Just Desserts

BravoTop Chef: Season 7 Winner Kevin Sbraga​ Wednesday night on the Top Chef Singapore-based finale, host Padma Lakshmi announced 31-year-old chef and New Jersey native Kevin Sbraga winner of the cooking competition's seventh season, edging out New York-based contestants Angelo Sosa and Ed Co ... More >>

New Top Chef Cookbook: Why To Think Twice Before Signing Up For That Reality TV Show

​The reality of reality television shows like Bravo's Top Chef is that if you're chosen as a contestant, you get to sign a big fat contract. You know, the kind of legalese that says something along the lines of the network gets to do pretty much anything it pleases. Including using you to prom ... More >>

How Top Chefs Shake Off June Gloom A Fog-Lifting Cocktail Recipe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/posixeleni/2566950190/June Gloom​ You'd think we'd expect June Gloom by now, but somehow it's still a shock to be substituting our swimsuits for sweaters and fun in the sun for fog lamps after Memorial Day. So how do we lift the fog of June's persistent gloom? We ... More >>

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

L.A. Bloggers Judge Top Chef Masters A Viewing Party at The Edison

Top Chef MastersMake room for some food bloggers at Judges' Table​ L.A. chefs like Mark Peel, Susan Feniger and Ludovic Lefebvre aren't the only locals showing up on Top Chef Masters this season. Wednesday night, the judges' table will get a little bit bigger with L.A. food bloggers Bill Espa ... More >>

Today in WTF: Meat Loaf To Plug Bizarre Concept Album on Shopping Network QVC

billboard.comJesus Christ Super Meatloaf​The Baron of Bombast himself is back (back again, that is--he's back twice a decade)! A few weeks ago Meat Loaf released a new single, with the unfortunate title "Los Angeloser," which could be the stupidest West Coast song title since the Red Hot Chil ... More >>

Q & A With Marcel Vigneron, Part 2: Supplying Top Chef, Ditching Silverware & SyFy TV

In the second part of our interview with Bar210 chef Marcel Vigneron, the Top Chef alum continues the conversation about life at The Bazaar, recommending Top Chef contestants, and his new lounge gig at Bar210, which opened recently in the former Trader Vic's location. Read the first part of the inte ... More >>

U2 Producer Steve Lillywhite Debases Himself To Be the Next Simon Cowell

Esteemed producer Steve Lillywhite makes an 'Idol' plea and embarrasses music nerds

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Season 2: Chef Contestants Announced

Go find your knife kit and your remote. The second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters is scheduled to premier on April 7th at 8 p.m. 22 chefs, including 6 who are returning from the first season, will compete for All That Plastic Wrap. (Okay, and charity money too.) This season's L.A. chefs includes ... More >>

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Sashay Mayor V: Hizzoner Hits 'Runway'

In between solving a $500 million budget shortfall, choosing a new Los Angeles Police Department chief and making sure those potholes get filled, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa found time to appear on this week's season finale of Bravo's Project Runway.Bravo​ They had a little fun with the city's ... More >>

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