Top Chef

Top Chef is an American reality competition television series which premiered on March 8, 2006, on Bravo. The show features chefs competing against each other in various culinary challenges. They are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway. The show has spawned multiple spinoff series, including Top Chef Masters, featuring established award-winning chefs; and Top Chef: Just Desserts, featuring pastry chefs. Another show, Top Chef Junior, featuring contestants in their early teens, premiered in October 2017 on Universal Kids. Numerous international adaptations of Top Chef have also been produced. On January 25, 2018, Bravo announced its renewal for Season 16 of Top Chef. The new season was filmed in Kentucky and premiered on December 6, 2018.