Top Chef Season 20 arrives on Bravo on March 9
By D. Goodman
Since it premiered in 2006, Top Chef has become one of the most important and respected culinary competition shows on television. Ask most foodies and they’ll tell you that unless a chef has been on the show, they haven’t really made it in the food world.
The series has spawned numerous spinoff and international editions, with versions airing in Mexico, Italy, France and Thailand just to name a handful. Each has produced new culinary stars that have wowed foodies the world over.
So it only makes sense that for the original’s milestone twentieth season, they should gather the best from around the globe and take the show on the road to see who can become the very first World All-Star.
Top Chef World All-Stars arrives on Bravo and Peacock on March 9
For Season 20 the series is titled Top Chef World All-Stars and it sees 16 cheftestants from 11 different international versions of the series gather to do culinary battle. Each one is either a winner of finalist of their respective season so this really is the best of the best.
For the first time, the flagship version of the series will be heading abroad, with the bulk of the season filming in London, England and the finale taking place in Paris, France.
Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio all return to host Season 20 and they will be joined by a long list of culinary superstars from past international editions of Top Chef.
As for who will be competing? Meet your 16 cheftestants (in alphabetical order) for Season 20:
Samuel Albert (Winner, France, Season 10)
Luciana Barry (Winner, Brazil, Season 2)
Sara Bradley (Finalist, Season 16: Kentucky)
Dawn Burrell (Finalist, Season 18: Portland)
Ali Ghzawi (Winner, Middle East & North Africa, Season 3: Lebanon)
Tom Goetter (Finalist, Germany, Season 1)
Nicole Gomes (Winner, Canada, Season 5: All-Stars)
Victoire Gouloubi (Finalist, Italy, Season 2)
Charbel Hayek (Winner, Middle East & North Africa, Season 5: Saudi Arabia)
Buddha Lo (Winner, Season 19: Houston)
Dale MacKay (Winner, Canada, Season 1)
May Phattanant Thongthong (Finalist, Thailand, Season 1)
Begoña Rodrigo (Winner, Spain, Season 1)
Gabriel Rodriguez (Winner, Mexico, Season 2)
Amar Santana (Finalist, Season 13: California)
Sylvia Stachyra (Winner, Poland, Season 7)
The landmark twentieth season of Top Chef premieres on March 9 on Bravo and is available to stream the next day on Peacock.
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