Top Chef

2005

4.4

917 reviews

TV-14

Rating

Eligible

Watch in a web browser or on supported devices Learn More

Season 8 episodes (17)

1 History Never Repeats

12/1/10

The All-Stars are back in the Top Chef kitchen. In the first Quickfire challenge, chefs from each season work as a team to create a dish for ultimate bragging rights as the best season ever on Top Chef. In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs must recreate the dish that sent them packing the first time around. Anthony Bourdain appears in a recurring role at the judges' table.

2 Night At The Museum

12/8/10

In this Quickfire challenge, pop star Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers challenges the chefs to create a snack for children enjoying a sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History. For the Elimination challenge, the chefs cook breakfast inspired by a dinosaur's diet for the kids and their parents.

3 New York's Finest

12/15/10

In this week's Quickfire, the Chef'testants' cooking, speed, and accuracy with a knife will be put to the test. The chefs compete in teams in a mise-en-place relay race to push a big red button starting a countdown clock for everyone else. In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs cook in four of New York's finest restaurants.

4 Advantage Chef

12/22/10

A good chef should be able to make a fantastic dish regardless of the kitchen tools and knives available to them. For this Quickfire, all of the toys in the kitchen are taken away, and for $20,000, the chefs must create a delicious holiday stuffing dish using only their two hands. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs cater a launch party for the US Open, one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world.

5 Dim Sum Lose Sum

1/5/11

For the first time ever, Head Judge Tom Colicchio picks up his knives in the kitchen. In this week's Quickfire, the chefs must beat his time in making a dish. For the Elimination, the chefs go to Chinatown and make dim sum for hundreds of locals.

6 We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

1/12/11

Hook 'em and cook 'em. The chefs go fishing for their ingredients and serve up the catch of the day at an end of summer beach party.

7 Restaurant Wars: One Night Only (Supersized)

1/19/11

Anthony Bourdain sets the stage in this week's Quickfire challenge as the chefs face off in a fish fillet contest in one of the best seafood restaurants in the world -- Le Bernardin. The Elimination Challenge is Pop-Up Restaurant Wars -- the Chefs must open "one night only" restaurants under the stars in New York City.

8 An Offer They Can't Refuse

2/2/11

Internationally acclaimed designer Isaac Mizrahi is the guest judge for this Quickfire challenge. And, for the first time in Top Chef history, the Quickfire will be judged on presentation and plating only - not taste. In the Elimination Challenge, the chefs will prepare a traditional three-course Italian meal in one of New York's most famous and exclusive restaurant's, Rao's. "The Soprano's" Lorraine Bracco returns to Top Chef as the Guest Judge.

9 Feeding Fallon

2/9/11

In this week's Quickfire challenge, the chefs put their own spin on an old classic, fondue. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs appear on the "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" show and cater the comedian's birthday party where he is the guest judge.

10 Lock Down

2/16/11

The chefs get in touch with their inner child with the help of Sesame Street stars Cookie Monster, Telly, and Elmo. For the Quickfire challenge, the chefs must make a cookie that pleases the gang. The chefs then take over a Target store in the middle of the night and for the Elimination challenge must make a dish with whatever they can find in the aisles.

11 For The Gulf

2/23/11

This week, the chefs must use a deep fryer to impress the queen of southern cooking, Paula Deen. Deen is then joined by John Besh as a guest judge in the Elimination Challenge where the chefs provide the seafood at a charity event benefiting the fisherman of the Gulf region.

12 Give Me Your Huddled Masses

3/2/11

The chef-testants are tasked with making something out of nothing on the open water for this week's Quickfire.The chefs then head to Ellis Island where they are surprised with their family tree and are tasked with creating a dish based on their heritage.

13 Fit For a King

3/9/11

The remaining chefs are Bahamas-bound for the remainder of the season. For the Quickfire they must go head-to-head with their culinary nemesis: their season's winner. Each pairing will cook the same dish and the judges will decide who cooked it best. The elimination challenge requires the chefs to cook for Bahamian Royalty with minimal cooking equipment.

14 Island Fever

3/16/11

The chefs will cater an upscale lunch party for the Nassau Yacht Club's 80th anniversary, which will include the Commodore and his friends as guests. They will cook with the finest Bahamian ingredients including conch, which they must dive for and catch in the ocean. Famed Latina chef Lorena Garcia serves as guest judge.

15 Last Supper

3/23/11

In the last Quickfire of the season, the chefs will design a challenge for one of their competitors, but there is a twist. For the Elimination challenge, the chef-testants will be making legendary Chefs Morimoto, Wolfgang Puck and Michelle Bernstein, their "Last Supper."

16 Finale

3/30/11

It all comes down to this. The final two chefs battle it out to come up with - and implement - their vision for the ultimate dining experience. Only one will earn the title that eluded them the first time around - "Top Chef."

17 Reunion

4/6/11

The drama is served extra spicy on Bravo's "Top Chef All-Stars Reunion Special." Bravo executive and "Watch What Happens: Live" host Andy Cohen talks to season eight's chef'testants and judges -- host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio and judge Gail Simmons. Cohen will answer viewers' questions and dish on season eight's good, bad and undercooked.

About this show

"Top Chef," is a hit reality competition series that celebrates the culinary arts with a fascinating window into the competitive, pressurized environment of world-class cookery and the restaurant business at the highest level. This one-hour series features fifteen aspiring chefs who will put their culinary skills to the test for the chance to earn the prestigious title of "Top Chef." The competing chefs will live and breathe the high-pressure lifestyle that comes with being a master chef, and each week the judges will tell one to "pack up their knives." In the end, only one chef will make it through the spectacular finale episode to take the title of "Top Chef." The winning chef will receive $100,000 in seed money to help encourage their culinary career, be featured in Food & Wine magazine, and most importantly, earn the prestigious title of "Top Chef."

Ratings and reviews

4.4

917 reviews

Debreta Martin

December 20, 2015

For all the purchasers of the current season 13 I suggest that you call Google Play and get a refund which is what I did. For the last 2 weeks they have been posting the after show "Last Chance Kitchen" with a thumbnail showing the eliminated contestant before posting the original episode. Huge spoiler!!! Also it takes way too long to post their episodes. The current episode from Dec 17 is still not posted as of Dec 20. Amazon, Vudu, and M-GO all have the current episodes with Vudu having the after show.

75 people found this review helpful

Laurinda Holm

June 5, 2021

Season 18 Episode 8 of Restaurant Wars is incomplete! The episode ends after the winning team is crowned and it is missing the critique of the losing team *and* the elimination. This was not a "to be continued* - part of the episode is cut off as the eliminated chef is noted in recaps. Please fix ASAP. Season 18 Episode 10 aired on 6/3/21. It's late afternoon on 6/5 and the episode still isn't available.

Ryan Eichberger

January 27, 2019

Bravo is the issue here, not Google. Episode releases are inconsistent and unreliable; thumbnails for Last Chance Kitchen spoil who got voted off before the actual episode ever drops. People have been complaining about this for years, and nothing has been done, and that's pretty inexcusable. Similar issues occur on Amazon, meaning that this isn't a Google issue but a Bravo one (Amazon indicated exactly this to me, for what it's worth). Direct irritated messages to them.

Rate this show

Tell us what you think.