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Chris Hanmer of Las Vegas wins Bravo’s Just Desserts, $100,000

November 1, 2011 • 6:33 p.m.

Congratulations to Las Vegas’ Chris Hanmer, the pastry prince who won the title of America’s Top Dessert Chef and $100,000 that will help with costs ...

Strip Scribbles: Food Network series set in L.V. to feature Nathan Burton?

January 27, 2011 • 5:17 p.m.

It’s a new, top-secret The Food Network reality TV show elimination project to be shot here in Las Vegas, and all I can confirm is that it will take place set ...

Hubert Keller’s Fleur: liquid nitrogen cocktails and a $5,000 burger

January 27, 2011 • 4:02 p.m.

Earlier this week, I reeled over the $1,100 price tag for a shot of Glenfiddich scotch. I’ve grown accustomed to $100 margaritas and $25,000 magnums ...

Kinky chefs and armpit hair: Our favorite Top Chef moments

December 11, 2009 • 11:47 a.m.

It may have just ended, but we miss Top Chef already. Here are some of our favorite moments.

Strip Scribbles: Contest includes NYE rooms, Black Eyed Peas concert

December 10, 2009 • 5:36 p.m.

Have you taken an extreme photo in Las Vegas this year? If so, the pic could win you an extraordinary New Year’s Eve prize in the Mandalay ...

Top Chef: Las Vegas Finale: Bryan vs. Michael vs. Kevin

December 9, 2009 • 8:54 a.m.

It’s all come down to a battle between three chefs: frontrunner Kevin Gillespie and two brothers, Michael and Bryan Voltaggio, on tonight’s final episode of ...

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Michael Voltaggio: The new Top Chef

December 21, 2009

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12.11.09 · 11:47 AM

Kinky chefs and armpit hair: Our favorite Top Chef moments

Las Vegas’ Top Chef moment in the culinary sun came to a close Wednesday with the crowing of Michael Voltaggio as this season’s winner. But before we rededicate Wednesday nights to spending time with friends or watching The Sing Off, let’s look back at a few of our favorite moments from season 6. Michael V. as Picasso Many have cracked under the pressure of the judges’ table, but maybe none so badly as Ash in episode 7. When asked why ... Read more...

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12.11.09 · 10:07 AM

The Jet Stream: Artists, artisans and shoemaker hacks

So the fat lady is out of breath, and we have crowned the new Top Chef. I think we all had a feeling that the V-bros were going to see the finish line together about midway through, but the surprise to me was the beard. I really didn’t feel that Kevin was going to make it all the way! I thought Jen was going to beat him to the final three. So how did Paul Bunyun self destruct? Well, it ... Read more...

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12.10.09 · 2:33 PM

Top Chef Finale: Betting on brothers

When I first read the cast list for Top Chef: Las Vegas, way before I’d ever heard of Jennifer Carroll or anyone had made a Facebook group dedicated to a certain red beard, two things jumped out at me: Voltaggio, and Voltaggio. It took me half a second to wrap my head around the names. Brothers? On Top Chef? It seemed risky, improbable and even a little cheap. Bravo had already unsuccessfully attempted to drum up a drama with a ... Read more...

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12.8.09 · 10:04 AM

Top Chef Odds Finale: From many, one

It’s been 14 episodes since we first met the 17 chef’testants competing on the sixth season of Top Chef set in Las Vegas. Over the past months, we’ve watched them stir talent with creativity and fold in practiced cooking skills on their quest for the game-changing $100,000 check and the title of Top Chef. We’ve seen them flub pasta salads, serve TV dinners, deconstruct mole negro and create meals inspired by everything from fine wine to Circus Circus. Along the ... Read more...

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12.4.09 · 2:14 PM

The Jet Stream: The great Jennifer debate

I think Jennifer going home is total bullshit! The judge’s final table comments totally confused me. Kevin’s beef was tough; Mike’s egg wasn’t prepared and plated well; and Jennifer didn’t have an eye on the grill. What? They sent her home because she said she was going grill the duck but didn’t? That is totally f***ked up! OK, her goat cheese to some was over-seasoned, but seriously? I don’t know, man. I would have kicked Kevin to the curb, if ... Read more...

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12.4.09 · 10:42 AM

Kevin Gillespie’s beard for president!

Wednesday night on part 1 of the Top Chef: Las Vegas season finale from Napa, Kevin mentioned a Facebook page in support of his beard. Indeed, Fans of Kevin Gillespie’s Beard is one of many – and one of the most coherent – oddball fan pages out there. You can also become a friend of Disney Princesses Gave me Unrealistic Expectations For Men and Hair, for example, but Kevin’s beard and its fans are a lot less negative and bitter. ... Read more...

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12.3.09 · 6:07 PM

Top Chef Episode 13: A few good chefs

There didn’t need to be a coin toss, pyrotechnics or a giant table laden with stacks of cash for the air to be thick with competition during part 1 of the Top Chef: Las Vegas season finale last night. If it weren’t such an unforgivable pun, I’d say you could cut it with a knife. A cheese knife. Unlike some other seasons, the Las Vegas edition of Top Chef has seen a consistently high level of cooking from more than ... Read more...

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11.20.09 · 1:41 PM

The Jet Stream: And then there were four

Wow, what a week of TC. Like I said before, it came down to fine-dining skills to make it into the Top 4. This must have been a tough week to leave for Eli. Coming this far and not making it to Napa. As we start to wind down the season it’s important, I think, to just take a moment and appreciate the level of skill of these cheftestants. With the multitude of chef competition shows out there, no one ... Read more...

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11.20.09 · 11:20 AM

Top Chef Episode 12: Culinary Olympics

Keep it simple, stupid. Often shortened to the acronym KISS, this half-insult, half-sound advice effectively sums up the road to success used in this week’s episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas. It’s a bit ironic, really, because none of this season’s prior challenges tested the chef’testants’ culinary skills (and nerves) quite like the Bocuse d’Or. Explained by chef’testant Jennifer Carroll as the “Olympics of Culinary,” the Bocuse d’Or is the championship of championships for chefs, bringing together the culinary elite ... Read more...

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11.13.09 · 11:10 AM

Top Chef Episode 11: Child’s play

“Child’s play.” That’s what guest judge Nigella Lawson called panna cotta on Wednesday night’s episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas right before sending Robin home for flubbing her version of the Italian dessert. I’d reserve “child’s play” for plates like mac and cheese and scrambled eggs, but then again, I’m not a British cookbook author with my own line of curvaceous kitchenware, and Robin, I suppose, is not a Top Chef-obsessed journalist who considers following a recipe with favorable results ... Read more...

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Leave it to chef Todd English to master a cocktail that’s sugar, spice and everything nice with a touch of hotness ... just the way Vegas likes it. At Todd ...
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