{"id":17236,"date":"2021-02-08T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2021-02-08T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T02:12:26","slug":"bravos-top-chef-returns-for-a-new-season-in-portland-kicking-off-with-a-supersized-episode-on-thursday-april-1-8pm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/bravos-top-chef-returns-for-a-new-season-in-portland-kicking-off-with-a-supersized-episode-on-thursday-april-1-8pm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Bravo&#8217;s &#8220;Top Chef&#8221; Returns for a New Season in Portland Kicking Off with a Supersized Episode on Thursday, April 1 @ 8PM [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17237\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/top-chef-portland-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bravo&#8217;s &#8220;<em><strong>Top Chef<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; will call Portland, Oregon home for season 18, kicking off with two weeks of supersized premieres starting on Thursday, April 1 from 8:00 &#8211; 9:15PM ET\/PT.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">This season, a new batch of 15 extremely talented Executive Chefs and restaurant owners, representing a cross-section of kitchens and food around the country, vie for the coveted title bringing their unique skillsets, diversity of cuisines, and the gamut of flavors. With Portland as a picturesque backdrop and culinary inspiration, the chefs compete in a variety of challenges including celebrating PDX&#8217;s Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of frontline workers and crabbing on the Oregon Coast in a tribute to the culinary icon and Oregonian James Beard.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/HNK2IC\/aO3boJhesuo7\/select\/media\/guid\/2140479951\/3664534\/feed\/embed_feed?playAll=true&amp;ec=f&amp;fwsitesection=bravo_video_vod_embed_whitelist&amp;params=siteSectionId%3Dbravo_video_vod_embed&amp;isEmbedded=true\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series returns with host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons.\u00a0 For the first time ever, a collection of &#8220;<em>Top Chef<\/em>&#8221; all-star winners, finalists, and favorites are joining an elite rotating judging and dining panel including Richard Blais, Carrie Baird, Nina Compton, Tiffany Derry, Gregory Gourdet, Melissa King, Kristen Kish, Edward Lee, Kwame Onwuachi, Amar Santana, Dale Talde and Brooke Williamson.\u00a0 \u00a0This season also includes appearances by Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, Massimo Bottura, Gabriel Rucker, and Alice Waters, as well as &#8220;<em>Portlandia<\/em>&#8221; stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein who stop by &#8220;<em>Top Chef<\/em>&#8221; Kitchen for a Quickfire Challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Beginning Thursday, April 8, Bravo&#8217;s Emmy-Winning digital companion series &#8220;<em>Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen<\/em>,&#8221; hosted by Tom Colicchio, returns for season ten as the eliminated chefs go head-to-head to try to cook their way back into the competition. Presented by BMW of North America, each week&#8217;s episode will be available on Bravotv.com, On Demand or wherever you stream Bravo&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Top Chef<\/em>&#8221; at the conclusion of each week&#8217;s episode.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meet the New Cheftestants:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Brittanny Anderson &#8211; Richmond, VA<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Avishar Barua &#8211; Columbus, OH<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Dawn Burrell &#8211; Houston, TX<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Gabe Erales &#8211; Austin, TX<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Nelson German &#8211; Oakland, CA<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Byron Gomez &#8211; Aspen, CO<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Sasha Grumman &#8211; Houston, TX<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Roscoe Hall &#8211; Birmingham, AL<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Sara Hauman &#8211; Portland, OR<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Kiki Louya &#8211; Detroit, MI<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Maria Mazon &#8211; Tucson, Arizona<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Shota Nakajima &#8211; Seattle, WA<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Gabriel Pascuzzi &#8211; Portland, OR<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Jamie Tran &#8211; Las Vegas, NV<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7 Chris Viaud- Milford, NH<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*For more information on the cheftestants, please visit Bravotv.com\/top-chef<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During a time of extreme hardship in the restaurant industry, these chefs have more on the line than ever before. From working with foraged mushrooms and picking produce at the famous Hood River Fruit Loop to visiting the Tillamook Creamery, the chefs are tasked with cooking with Oregon&#8217;s natural bounty of ingredients. With Padma, Tom and Gail and a table full of alums to impress, the expectations have never been higher, especially in this year&#8217;s unique Restaurant Wars where the teams must perfectly execute on a micro-restaurant concept with a cohesive seven-course tasting menu that rivals the best in the world. To stay in the game, the chefs must cook at their best while contending with a Quickfire using ingredients used on the Oregon Trail and a surf and turf elimination challenge honoring the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. 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