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Revision as of 16:41, 11 August 2007

Season 1 of Top Chef was taped in October and November 2005 in San Francisco, California. Twelve contestants from around the United States lived together in a house for approximately 21 days competing in a series of challenges. The weekly series was shown on Bravo from March 8 through May 24, 2006, and was hosted by Katie Lee Joel with regular judges chef Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons of Food & Wine Magazine. A winning recipe from each week's episode is featured on Bravo's Top Chef website.

Host & judges

Permanent

Guest judges

Contestants

(In order of ascending elimination)

Ages listed at time of Top Chef taping in October-November, 2005.

Elimination Challenge

Contestants with more than one win

Contestants with one win

  • Lee Anne Wong & Miguel Morales each had one win.

Contestants with no wins

  • Stephen Asprinio, Andrea Beaman, Brian Hill, Candice Kumai, Kenneth Lee, Lisa Parks, & Cynthia Sestito did not win any Elimination challenges.

Quickfire Challenge

Contestants with more than one win

  • Lee Anne Wong had three wins.
  • Harold Dieterle & Stephen Asprinio each had two wins.

Contestants with one win

  • Andrea Beaman & Tiffani Faison each had one win.

Contestants with no wins

  • Brian Hill, Candice Kumai, Kenneth Lee, Dave Martin, Miguel Morales, Lisa Parks, & Cynthia Sestito did not win any Quickfire challenges.

Episodes

Each episode included two challenges. The Quickfire Challenge was a short, simple challenge with a varying reward each week. The Elimination Challenge was a more complex challenge that determined who was sent home. One or more guest judges joined the show each week to evaluate both the Quickfire and Elimination challenges. Each week's elimination was announced in a segment called "Judges' Table."

Season 1 elimination challenges

Episode Progress
Chef 1 2 3 4 52 6 7 83 9 114 12 Comments
Quickfire<br\> Winner Lee<br\>Anne Stephen Tiffani Lee<br\>Anne Andrea Stephen Harold Lee<br\>Anne Harold None None
Harold WIN IN LOW HIGH LOW IN TW LOW HIGH style="background:cornflowerblue;"|HIGH WIN Winner of Top Chef Season 1
Tiffani HIGH IN IN WIN WIN HIGH TW LOW LOW LOW OUT elimin: Finale (2)
Dave IN LOW LOW IN WIN LOW WIN LOW WIN OUT elimin: Finale (1)
Lee Anne IN IN LOW IN HIGH WIN LOW LOW OUT elimin: Napa’s Finest
Stephen HIGH HIGH TW LOW HIGH HIGH LOW OUT elimin: Wedding Bell Blues
Miguel IN WIN IN IN LOW LOW OUT elimin: Restaurant Wars
Andrea LOW OUT1 TW HIGH IN OUT elimin: Food of Love / Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Lisa IN LOW TW LOW OUT elimin: Blind Confusion
Candice LOW IN TW OUT elimin: Food on the Fly
Brian IN HIGH OUT elimin: Nasty Delights
Cynthia IN LOW QUIT voluntarily left show: Nasty Delights
Ken OUT elimin: Who Deserves To Be Here

Template:FnbAndrea was brought back in Episode 3, after being eliminated once, when Cynthia chose to leave because her father was ill.
Template:FnbChefs worked in teams of two with two winners and one eliminated.
Template:FnbNo winner.
Template:FnbEpisode 10 was a reunion episode with no challenges.

  (WIN) The chef won the series and was crowned Top Chef.
  (WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
  (HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
  (LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
  (OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
  (QUIT) The chef voluntarily left the show.
  (DQ) The chef was disqualified and was asked to leave the show.
  (TW) The chef was on the winning team but was not an individual winner.

Episode 1: Who Deserves To Be Here

  • Quickfire Challenge: Survive working the line at chef Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys restaurant for 30 minutes. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Lee Anne.
  • Elimination Challenge: Prepare a signature dish to be served to the other Top Chef contestants.
    • WINNER: Harold. ELIMINATED: Ken.
  • Reason for Elimination: During the Quickfire, Ken antagonized the judges, particularly Keller. Keller asked Ken to taste the sauce he was preparing but instead of using a spoon, Ken dipped his fingers in the food. Keller kicked him out of the kitchen but once the challenge was over, Ken continued bickering with Keller and Colicchio, firmly maintaining that tasting the sauce by dipping one's fingers in it was a normal and practical method. The judges and his fellow contestants viewed him as too cocky, especially when his Elimination Challenge dish failed to live up to his tough talk.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and Hubert Keller.
  • First aired March 8, 2006

Episode 2: Food of Love

  • Quickfire Challenge: Choosing from a large selection of fruit, prepare a plate for presentation. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Stephen.
  • Elimination Challenge: Make a sexy dessert for a fetish party at Mr. S, a sex boutique in San Francisco, and co-hosted by Paige White
    • WINNER: Miguel. ELIMINATED: Andrea.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and chef Elizabeth Falkner.
  • First aired March 15, 2006

Episode 3: Nasty Delights

  • Quickfire Challenge: Prepare octopus in 60 minutes. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Tiffani.
  • Elimination Challenge: Working in two teams, prepare monkfish for a group of children who will rate the food.
    • WINNER: Red Team (no single person was chosen as winner). ELIMINATED: Brian.
  • Replacement: Cynthia Sestito chose to leave the show during this episode to be with her sick father. Andrea was then brought back to keep the two sides balanced for the team elimination challenge.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and chef Laurent Manrique.
  • First aired March 22, 2006

Episode 4: Food on the Fly

  • Quickfire Challenge: Create a dish in 30 minutes using US$20 worth of ingredients from a gas station store. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Lee Anne.
  • Elimination Challenge: Create a gourmet entree that can be reheated in a microwave. Serve it to a group of Junior League women who will rate the meals.
    • WINNER: Tiffani. ELIMINATED: Candice.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and chef Jefferson Hill.
  • First aired March 29, 2006

Episode 5: Blind Confusion

  • Quickfire Challenge: In five minutes identify a variety of ingredients by taste while blindfolded. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Andrea.
  • Elimination Challenge: Working in teams of two, create a dish fusing Latin American cuisine with one other ethnic cuisine, then distribute the dish from a cart in the Mission District of San Francisco.
    • WINNERS: Dave and Tiffani. ELIMINATED: Lisa.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and chef Mike Yakura.
  • First aired April 5, 2006
  • Following the Quickfire Challenge, the contestants held an impromptu junk food blindfold taste test to make light of the fact that most did not score highly in the challenge. Miguel won.

Episode 6: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  • Quickfire Challenge: Create an appetizer in 20 minutes using US$3 worth of ingredients from a snack vending machine. Prize: Immunity from elimination.
    • WINNER: Stephen.
  • Elimination Challenge: Create a seven-course dinner party for Ted Allen. Each chef works on another chef's recipe.
    • WINNER: Lee Anne. ELIMINATED: Andrea.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and Ted Allen.
  • First aired April 12, 2006

Episode 7: Restaurant Wars

  • Quickfire Challenge: Create a sandwich in 30 minutes using any of the available ingredients. Prize: Winning sandwich will be put on the menu at the San Francisco location of Tom Colicchio's 'Wichcraft restaurant.
    • WINNER: Harold.
  • Elimination Challenge: Working in two teams of three, transform raw restaurant spaces, including decor and menu. Twenty-four hours later, diners arrive, choose which restaurant to dine in, and rate their experience.
    • WINNER: Dave. ELIMINATED: Miguel.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow.
  • First aired April 19, 2006
  • In this episode, Dave famously said to Tiffany "I'm not your bitch, bitch", after she constantly nagged him. It became the most quoted line of the season.
  • Before the teams get to work on their restaurant concepts, Chodorow reveals that the winner of the Elimination Challenge will accompany him to the Cannes Film Festival.

Episode 8: Wedding Bell Blues

  • Quickfire Challenge: Design a wedding reception menu in 90 minutes and pitch it to the wedding couple. Prize: Menu will be used for the wedding reception.
    • WINNER: Lee Anne.
  • Elimination Challenge: Working as a team, cater a wedding reception for 100 guests using the menu chosen in the Quickfire challenge. The reception starts in 16 hours.
    • WINNER: None. ELIMINATED: Stephen.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and wedding planner Marcy Blum.
  • First aired April 26, 2006

Episode 9: Napa's Finest

  • Quickfire Challenge: Recreate a classic junk food element into a gourmet dish in 45 minutes. Prize: Performance counts in overall assessment of the week's challenges, as well as a bottle of Shafer Hillside Select Sauvignon. [1]
    • WINNER: Harold.
  • Elimination Challenge: Travel to Napa Valley's COPIA to prepare a dish incorporating expensive black Périgord truffles to be served with 2001 Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon wine. Each chef's dish will be served to a group of top professional chefs from Northern California who are the guest judges.
    • WINNER: Dave. ELIMINATED: Lee Anne.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and a collection of top professional chefs from Northern California, including Greg Cole, Lissa Doumani, Philippe Jeanty, Douglas Keane, Keith Luce, James McDevitt, Cindy Pawlcyn, Victor Scargle, Hiro Sone and winery owner John Shafer.
  • First aired May 3, 2006

Episode 10: Reunion

  • All twelve chefs are reunited with Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and Katie Lee Joel in a discussion and behind-the-scenes review of their experiences on Top Chef. Though it was shown before the finale, the reunion was actually taped in late April, 2006, after the finale took place. It is unknown how many of the chefs other than the winner, Harold, finalists Tiffani and Dave, and participants Miguel, Stephen and Lee Anne, knew the results of the finale at the time of the reunion taping.
  • First aired May 10, 2006

Episode 11: Finale Part 1

  • The three finalists, Dave, Harold and Tiffani, meet at the MGM Grand Las Vegas where they compete in a series of three Quickfire Challenges to determine which two chefs will remain to compete in a final challenge for the grand prize of Top Chef.
  • Quickfire/Elimination Challenges: For each challenge, prepare hotel room service meals in 30 minutes for different customers: first a room of high rollers, including former competitors Lee Anne, Miguel and Stephen; then a table of poker players including Phil Hellmuth; and, finally, performers from Cirque du Soleil. Each group of patrons were to decide who was their favorite. Harold won with the "high rollers" and Cirque du Soleil performers, Dave won with the poker players, and Tiffany won none.
  • Disqualification: Despite Dave's win with the poker players, the judges eliminated him because instead of serving three dishes to the Cirque du Soleil performers in the final challenge, he misunderstood the challenge and only made two. Although his kobe beef dish was the overall favorite among the performers, he was disqualified for his mistake.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and Hubert Keller.
    • ADVANCING TO FINAL TWO: Harold and Tiffani. ELIMINATED: Dave.
  • First aired May 17, 2006

Episode 12: Finale Part 2

  • Elimination Challenge: The two finalists, Harold and Tiffani, each prepare a five course tasting meal to be served to a table of eight luminaries from the culinary world. Harold is assisted by former competitors Lee Anne and Miguel. Tiffani is assisted by former competitors Stephen and Dave.
  • Judges: Tom Colicchio; Gail Simmons; and Lorraine Bracco.
    • WINNER OF TOP CHEF SEASON ONE: Harold. RUNNER-UP: Tiffani.
  • First aired May 24, 2006

See also

Contestant and judge sites

Review

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