Will Padma Lakshmi be hosting the next season of Top Chef from Las Vegas?
What happens in Vegas will be delicious. The sixth season of the No. 1 food show on cable, Bravo’s Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series returns with Top Chef: Las Vegas, premiering Wednesday, August 19th at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The 17 new chef’testants take on Sin City this season to see if they have what it takes to become Top Chef. Once again returning to the kitchen, cookbook author, actress and host Padma Lakshmi presides over the judge’s table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, renowned culinary figure and chef/owner Craft Restaurants, and judges Gail Simmons, of Food & Wine magazine and Toby Young, food critic and best-selling author of the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Some of the top names in food, movies and entertainment including Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Natalie Portman, Daniel Boulud, Penn & Teller, Hubert Keller, Laurent Tourondel, Tim Love, Michelle Bernstein, Tyler Florence, Charlie Palmer, Paul Bartolotta, Nigella Lawson and Jerome Bocuse will be feat
It’s Season 6, and Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and 17 new “cheftestants” are poised to take Sin City by storm. The things I enjoy most about this slice of foodie goodness are the crazy challenges … all right, and the drama between contestants, and … well … everything. Fire up the stoves and sharpen your knives. 9 tonight, Bravo (Note: The finale of the summer sister series “Top Chef Masters” airs immediately following at 10 p.m. (seattletimes.com/tvlistings). Sources: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2009685204_tvbriefs19.
