To die for.
Tom Colicchio
1 Why Open a Restaurant When There's Bling to Be Had?
Top Chef
2 Food & Wine Magazine Celebrates The Best New Chefs
New York
3 Yummy Link: Top Chef Live Cook-Off!
New York
4 The Live Action Top Chef Cook-Off Results Are In!
Cynthia Rowley
5 Small Talk with Ilan Hall
Guess Who
6 Name That Dish!
Link Time
7 Yummy Links: From Avec Eric to The Gorbals
celebrity chefs
8 Which Chef Would You Like to See on Dancing With the Stars?
Apparently, Top Chef season two winner Ilan Hall has a new dream. The owner of Los Angeles restaurant The Gorbals wants to be on Dancing With the Stars. He hopes to be on the dance competition, which takes C-list and reality stars and turns them into ballroom dancers, so much that he's started a Facebook campaign. Although ABC has not announced the cast for the 12th season of the show, which is Read more
Chef Eric Ripert brings his cool cuisine to PBS. — W Top Chef season two winner Ilan Hall has finally opened The Gorbals, a restaurant in Los Angeles. — Eater LA Meet Brooklyn's new backyard farms. — Serious Eats Moving past the burn: how to taste spirits. — Chow The chairman from Iron Chef America will compete in the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars. — Eat Me Daily Tips Read more
This is a traditional Mexican dish whose main ingredient is Ilan Hall's guilty pleasure food. Do you know what it's called? Read more
Last week our very own FabSugar had the opportunity to chat with Top Chef Season Two winner, Ilan Hall. They were both backstage at the Cynthia Rowley Spring 2008 show — Fab reporting on the looks, and Ilan feeding the masses. Luckily for us, they were both able to take a few minutes from their jobs and provide us with a fun interview. FabSugar: What did you have for breakfast? Ilan Hall: I Read more
Yesterday, to kick off New York's Restaurant Week, Bravo TV hosted a cook-off pitting season 2 crowd-favorite Sam Talbot against season 2 winner Ilan Hall. I was really hoping that Sam would show everyone that the wrong winner was chosen, but as it turns out, Ilan won the cook-off with a softshell crab dish. His winning dish, which beat out a quail entrée from Sam, will be tentatively added to Read more
If you're a Top Chef fan who lives in New York, you might want to head over to NYC's Union Square Park next Tuesday. To kick off the 16th Annual Restaurant week, Bravo TV is hosting a Taste of Top Chef Cook-Off pitting season two winner Ilan Hall against season two fan favorite, Sam Talbot. Man I wish I lived in New York. - Will Work For Food Read more
Yesterday I mentioned how Food & Wine magazine announced their Best New Chefs of 2007, well turns out that when you announce this kind of a list, you throw a big party to celebrate it too. Last night in Manhattan at 7 World Trade Center, past Best New Chefs, along with Top Chef winners Harold Dieterle and Ilan Hall (and I'm guessing Sam Talbot too, based on the fact that he looks like he's Read more
Okay, now what's wrong with this picture from the South Beach Wine and Food Festival party? Go on take a good look. Here we have Top Chef winner Ilan Hall, Gail Simmons, Sam Talbot and Tom Colicchio hanging out at the Food & Wine magazine after party. Have you figured it out? I'll give you a hint it has to do with attire. No it's not that Sam is looking under-dressed (although you have to Read more
