Who Marcel Will Piss Off This Time, and Other Top Chef: All-Stars Predictions
It could be a doozy of a season, or it could be a total, contractually obligatory snore.
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Mattin Noblia Gives Up Restaurant Biz, For Now
The former Top Chef-testant is opening a health center next to his current restaurant in S.F.'s North Beach.
Gail Simmons Confesses Her Crush on Hubert Keller, Admits She Had to Jog a Lot More During Top Chef: Just Desserts
The newly minted host talks about the crazy calories she consumed, and how being host and judge is a lot more work.
Meet Yigit Pura, Sure to Be Dubbed ‘The Hot One’ on Top Chef: Just Desserts
A chef-testant from 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' premiering September 15, discusses the show and how to stay thin on butter and sugar alone.
Jamie Lauren Likely on Top Chef All Stars Too
The new chef at Beechwood in Venice, and Top Chef season 5 finalist, is most likely shooting the All Stars season currently in New York.
Canadian Rancher Serves Wine to Cows; Are You a Foochebag?
• An Angus beef producer in British Columbia has started serving red wine to her cattle along with their feed in order to enhance the flavor of the beef. [CBC] • Top Chef won this year's Emmy for Outstanding Reality...
Jamie Lauren Won’t Miss Much About S.F., Will Miss Goood Frikin’ Chicken
The former Top Chef-testant is looking forward to the change.
Jamie Lauren Bows Out At Absinthe After Saturday
Saturday night is your last chance to taste Jamie Lauren's food at Absinthe before the onetime Top Chef finalist takes off for L.A. She's still not saying if she's got any jobs lined up down there... [Tablehopper, Earlier]...
Top Chef Tour Rolls Into Justin Herman Plaza Tomorrow Today
Chefs Jamie Lauren and Ryan Scott are doing four live, interactive cooking demos tomorrow.
Ryan Scott to Unveil Food Truck at Aventine’s Cinco de Mayo Party
Ryan Scott's "taco truck" makes its debut today.
Ryan Scott Has Many Irons in the Fire
The 'Top Chef' season 4 contestant is working on several signature projects around town.
The Top 100 Restaurants Gets an Update; Starbucks Introduces the ‘Plenta’ for April Fools
• Mr. Bauer's 15th annual Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants list comes out on Sunday, and he says that knocking the last three off felt like "[sending] my dog to the pound." [Between Meals] • Should food writers and editors...
7x7 Calls Medjool Names; Is Top Chef Moving to D.C.?
• 7x7 refers to Medjool as a "d-bag playrgound." Uptown Almanac laughs, says, "that's rich." [7x7, Uptown Almanac] • Statistics show that the 2009 vintage was bumper crop for wine grapes, or was it? [The Cellarist] • Ten chocolate bars...
Top Chef Masters Season 2 Cast Is Decidedly Short on San Franciscans
Not a single Bay Area chef numbers among the 22 new and returning chef-testants.
Jamie Lauren Keeps An Obsessively Neat Walk-In
Watch a video interview and kitchen tour with Absinthe chef Jamie Lauren.
Top Chef's Laurine Serves Prix Fixe Menu This Weekend
On January 30th and 31st Laurine Wickett is serving a prix fixe to pimp her catering company.
Top Chef Popularity Overwhelms Charlie Palmer
Due to a computer error, far more tickets were sold than there is space at this year's event.
Which Food Term Should Be Taken Off the Menu?
A fight erupts over food terms and abbreviations that are getting way overused.
Making Ten Dozen Tamales for Christmas; Cooking Shows Score Gangbuster Ratings
• An SF food writer indulges in the Mexican Christmas tradition of cooking tamales with home-braised pork and prepared masa from La Palma. [Mmm... That's Good] • Cooking with the Single Guy calls Camino in Oakland "a place Alice Waters...