Top Chef Masters

2009 • BRAVO
4.6
108 reviews
TV-14
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 Masters Get Schooled
6/10/09
"Top Chef Masters," the spin-off series of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning No. 1 food show on cable, "Top Chef," flips the judges' table to find out who can handle the heat. "Top Chef Masters" will pit 24 world-renowned chefs against each other, four in each of episode, to win $100,000 for the charity of their choice. Hubert Keller (Fleur de Lys), Christopher Lee (Aureole), Michael Schlow (Radius Restaurant), and Tim Love (The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro) are the first to draw knives and kick off a whole new level of culinary competition.
2 The Lost Supper
6/17/09
Operating on an extremely tight budget, the chefs must create the perfect amuse bouche using only what they can find in a vending machine. Master Wylie Dufresne (wd~50), Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Graham Elliot Bowles (Graham Elliot Restaurant), and Elizabeth Falkner (Orson) find themselves "lost" as they are challenged to make a meal inspired by the hit TV show, using ingredients such as fish, wild boar, fresh fruits, and other island specialties.
3 Offal Tasty
6/24/09
The chefs take their skills to the street. Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill), Cindy Pawlcyn (Mustards Grill), Wilo Benet (Pikayo), and Ludo Lefebvre (Ludo Bites) set out to cook the most appealing treat for Los Angeles pedestrians using the unique ingredients provided them.
4 Magic Chefs
7/8/09
Top Chef Masters brings together distinguished chefs Anita Lo (Annisa), Douglas Rodriguez (Alma de Cuba), John Besh (Restaurant August) and Mark Peel (Campanile). The Masters find their hands tied in the quickfire challenge as they must cook an egg with one hand tied behind their back (All Stars Challenge, season three of "Top Chef"), and then must create culinary magic to awe their high-profile guests which include Neil Patrick Harris. One chef moves on to the Champions Round.
5 Miniaturize Me
7/15/09
The final four chefs face a food group they typically avoid for this week's quickfire: junkfood. Michael Chiarello (Bottega Restaurant), Rick Moonen (Rick Moonen's RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay), Nils Noren (French Culinary Institute) and Lachlan McKinnon Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine) are then put on the spot as they are pushed to make the perfect 3 course mini meal.
6 Trick In A Box
7/22/09
Knives are drawn and the display of extraordinary talent begins in the most ordinary of places - a grocery store. Master chefs Roy Yamaguchi (Roy's Restaurants), Art Smith (Table Fifty-Two), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), and Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto) pass the quickfire round and are faced with a mystery box from which they must concoct their elimination challenge meals.
7 Champions Round Begins
7/29/09
The top six chefs have advanced to the finals and now must face-off for the ultimate title of Top Chef Master. Each is asked to produce their signature dish, only to find they must then re-create their competitor's unique dish.
8 Dietary Restrictions
8/5/09
It's a battle of the burgers as the five remaining chefs strive to create an American classic. In the elimination challenge, the Masters must prepare the perfect meal for an exclusive celebrity lunch thrown by actress and singer-song-writer Zooey Deschanel.
9 Masters Of Disaster
8/12/09
In a decisive testing of the palate, the final four chefs enter their last quickfire challenge blindfolded. The elimination round presents the Chefs with the goal of catering a large event - only they are not allowed to touch the food. Each Master must use his or her leadership, teaching, and directing skills to accomplish their vision at arm's length.
10 Top Chef Master
8/19/09
In the climactic finale of "Top Chef Masters," three accomplished chefs stand to face their final challenge - the creation of a four-course meal. Sounds simple enough, but each course must be inspired by a certain memory from their past.

About this show

This tournament style competition series inspired by the Top Chef phenomenon features celebrated and established chefs from around the world who face off in cooking challenges judged by top food critics and restauranteurs. Winners go on to face other winners until a victor is named. Taking cooking to the next level, these successful culinary stars vie for the adulation of the world of haute cuisine and for the bragging rights of being named a Top Chef Master.

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4.6
108 reviews
A Google user
September 12, 2012
Hate this show but I got ot cuz I rich yeahhhhya
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A Google user
September 17, 2012
Great show!
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Kim Ferguson
February 23, 2018
Please add the online content Battle of the Sous Chefs
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