Top Chef-Tv

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An American reality competition show in which chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges and 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.

First Air Date: 2006-03-08

Last Air Date: 2025-04-10

Status: Returning Series

Number of Seasons: 22

Number of Episodes: 321

Genre:

Reality

Created by: Lauren Zalaznick

Production Companies: Magical Elves

Cast

Tom Colicchio

Self - Head Judge

Gail Simmons

Self - Judge

Kristen Kish

Self - Host

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Seasons

San Francisco

2006-03-08 • Episodes: 12

Top Chef: San Francisco is the first season of American reality television series Top Chef and was based first in San Francisco, California, filmed at Paulding & Company, A Creative Kitchen, in Emeryville, and concluded in Las Vegas, Nevada. The season premiered on Bravo on March 8, 2006 and ended on May 24, 2006. Season 1 of Top Chef was taped in October and November 2005 in San Francisco, California. Twelve contestants from around the United States lived together in a house for approximately 21 days competing in a series of challenges. The prize money awarded to the Top Chef was $100,000. The weekly series was hosted by Katie Lee Joel with regular judges chef Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons of Food & Wine Magazine. The winning recipe from each week's episode is featured on Bravo's Top Chef website.