TOP CHEF — Season:20 — Pictured: Dawn Burrell — (Photo by: Stephanie Diani\/Bravo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nMany cheftestants, the name Top Chef has bestowed upon the chef contestants must grapple with representing their country to the fullest and showcasing the superb skills one must have to embark upon the Emmy, James Beard, and Critics’ Choice Award-winning series stage. Host Padma Lakshmi, head judge Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons return to keep everyone on their interested and intriguing ingredient toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This season’s overall winner will take home the Grand Prize of $250,000 provided by the Saratoga Brand, a feature in Food & Wine, and an appearance at the 40th annual Food &Wine Classic in Aspen. In addition, this milestone series will provide an entire season of supersized episodes airing Thursdays from 9-10:15 p.m. Episodes will be available the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MEET THE CHEFTESTANTS<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Samuel Albert (winner, Top Chef France, Season 10) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Luciana Berry (winner, Top Chef Brazil, Season 2) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sara Bradley (finalist, Bravo’s Top Chef, Season 16: Kentucky) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Dawn Burrell (finalist, Bravo’s Top Chef, Season 18: Portland) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ali Ghzawi (winner, Top Chef Middle East & North Africa, Season 3: Lebanon) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Tom Goetter (finalist, Top Chef Germany, Season 1) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Nicole Gomes (winner, Top Chef Canada, Season 5: All-Stars) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Victoire Gouloubi (finalist, Top Chef Italy, Season 2) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Charbel Hayek (winner, Top Chef Middle East & North Africa, Season 5: Saudi Arabia) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Buddha Lo (winner, Bravo’s Top Chef, Season 19: Houston) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Dale MacKay (winner, Top Chef Canada, Season 1) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- May Phattanant Thongthong (Finalist, Top Chef Thailand, Season 1) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Bego\u00f1a Rodrigo (winner, Top Chef Spain, Season 1) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Gabriel Rodriguez (winner, Top Chef Mexico, Season 2) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Amar Santana (finalist, Bravo’s Top Chef \u2013 Season 13: California) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sylvia Stachyra (winner, Top Chef Poland, Season 7) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 20th season of Top Chef will highlight 16 All-Stars from around the globe who will compete in London before moving on to the grand finale in Paris, where there will be one winner left standing to earn the title “Top Chef” World All-Star. Watch the fiery premiere when it airs on Bravo Thursday, March … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,424,3,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-foodie","category-in-the-pot","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12635,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions\/12635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}