Top Chefs Turn Judges: Where Are They Now? | Top Chef: Portland

[@johnniehaygood1]

Melissa is my all time favorite Top Chef!!

[@yourarerightmybad...]

Grayson is mine! She schooled Tom on the meatball comment!

[@emmsmom1848]

Love her but Brian Voltaggio is my all-time favorite 😊

[@mw7405]

Besides being a top chef with a pleasant demeanor..that face😍!

[@running_girl5512]

I like her and Kristen, Bryan V, Brian , actually many of them.

[@timothygoh7395]

I love melissa very much , i love her food , simply and stunning and i love the way she talk and her personality .

[@xxgo0kst3rxx]

Ohh Fatima😢 rip chef!

[@pinkyjohns5198]

My favorite reality show ever! I love Melissa. I think this group of judges is phenomenal! Wish it was on every week!

[@pinkyjohns5198]

Love Nina Compton, too!

[@kcha237]

I really hope that if they do this again, the bring back Shirley Chung, who is just an explosion of sunshine on the screen.

[@emmsmom1848]

I loved Shirley too!

[@yolooo5081]

Second this :3

[@Zennofobic]

the sound she made when her pasta roller fell apart ate at my soul

[@r.stevens6205]

I am so glad Top Chief diversified their judges! I had stop watching it it because of that and just decided to give it another look and was pleasantly surprised and I’m back on board! Thanks for the change!

[@majorlazor5058]

Yeah... I’ve always been a top chef fan, but Padma used to be a spec of brown in a white Sea on the judges panel.

[@giseleomylord]

Kwame is so Handsome!!!

[@frida.7831]

I second that and I include Melissa, both are so charming and handsome

[@a.sydney5036]

@@frida.7831 absolutely. But they are equally 🔥. There’s just something about Melissa 👀

[@Solidude4]

Also his sense of style is everything!

[@suzieq4750]

Please do a Where Are They Now season by season.

[@anousinhDT]

Melissa is my all time fav

[@missann0906]

Such an Amazing idea to bring the Chefs back,as well as the production of the show because of COVID-19 Kudos to all involved with creating a fun and exciting show,that episode @ the drive in was so creative 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@loriannwilcox8072]

Love this show and love the new judges. Very cool! Really enjoying this season. ❤👏❤

[@nanayjan232011]

melissa is my favorite! :)

[@terri7864]

Love Brooke!

[@lauram8047]

love it love it !!

[@dalemelanson5453]

Congratulatios Gabe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rachexl]

brooke chill with the lip fillers jesus

[@kimberlykeevy7046]

I think once you lose, you lose. Someone else should get the opportunity to win. This goes for Brooke , (the Ms. Know it All) who was the judges favorite all throughout her season. This show and most of these shows are designed for their PICK to win. BYW MELISSA, YOU ROCK!!!

[@judyweinstock9972]

I totally agree. The judges wanted Brooke to win. My favorite, Sheldon was robbed.

[@DottieLewis]

You do understand Melissa lost and came back on another season too, right...........

[@otogigamer]

Meh more fun to watch Shokugeki no Souma

[@avalangrin4904]

Qwame be honest. Your best advice for winning Top Chef based on history is not being a Black contestant. Seventeen seasons and no Black winners?!!! 🤨. It was not for lack of talent. Shout out to James Beard award winning chef, Nina Compton who was ROBBED in Season 11.

[@lauram8047]

There is a black winner (Kevin from S7). At least inform yourself better before making stuff about race 🤨

[@avalangrin4904]

@@lauram8047 Laura I was INFORMED by a fan that Kevin Spraga was Hispanic. I always considered him Black. So let’s go with your premise. It is still shameful that in 17 seasons there has been only ONE Black winner. So instead of trying to lecture me about making things about race why don’t YOU open your eyes to the inequities that are obvious. I named Nina Compton, Gregory Goudart, Qwame Onwwuachi, Sylvi Senat who are ALL talented chefs who I believe lost to a less talented winner. Tom Collichio and Top Chef has had several opportunities to reward talented Black chefs with the title besides Kevin Spraga who I feel isn’t even as talented as the other chefs I named. Season 11 was especially egregious and if you follow the show and are INFORMED would remember Tom Collichio’s shameful moves during that season. Tom Collichio received much backlash when he pushed to crown Nicholas Elmi Top Chef over Nina Compton. Now this season they have FIVE Black chef contestants ( This last happened on Season 7) instead of their usual one or two and they have pulled most of their Black and brown contestants to judge to cover-up the fact that mostly white male, 3 Asian, about 4 female overall have won Top Chef. Top Chef gives plot armor to less talented chefs like Jeremy (Can’t remember his last name.) during Qwame’s season and Brooke Williamson during her second season and puts out more talented Black chefs if they make one mistake. I think Tom Collichio has manipulated this competition until it has become obvious and embarrassing. 🤨🤨🤨🤨

[@frida.7831]

@@avalangrin4904 That's not true they have not lost to less talented winners. Nicholas Elmi has great success in Philladelphia and Brooke is considered a top 5 winner by many. Top Chef has been always about the food. There's a reason they have 18 seasons and never they have been questioned by the contestants. It is because they always pick fairly according to what's presented to their plates. The show have helped to improve most of the chef lifes, including many you name. It has give a platform from black excellence as Tanya Holland and african food which has become recurrent on the show. Furthermore, Greg, Nina and Qwame had appeared more times in the show that the winners of their season because the show loves them!!! The problem is NOT Top Chef, is the culinary world. That's whom you should adress at. If something, Top Chef has open many opportunities that many of this chefs never had in the first place.

[@scottmead854]

@@avalangrin4904 Ditto to what the previous commenter mentioned. This show has definitely introduced many great chefs of color to the whole country, as well as previously not as widely known African and Caribbean cuisines. Sometimes the winner could be any of the last few chefs remaining because they all have high caliber, and it's just a matter of best results of the day. We also have to talk about culture. You know cultures such as French, Chinese, Japanese have been featuring their cuisines as a fine dining experience for hundreds of years? So relatively young cuisines will need a little more time to blossom. Of course a chef doesn't need to be confined to their origins, any one could learn and master any cuisine, but imagine people who're born into a culture with a rich culinary history, their culinary sensitivity has been sharpened since they're very young, whether they're aware of it or not.

[@mw7405]

Hasn’t there been one? Season before the first all stars ..season seven? Is his name Kevin?

[@donfrye9185]

Carrie was the worst. She rode the bottom the entire season and somehow made it to the “top 4”.

[@geddoe316]

look at em checking those liberal boxes

[@Letstryagainpls]

Was not impressed with Dale as a judge in season 18. Something about him just .... 👎

[@estherbradley3218]

Great watching this! ❤️ the diversity

[@Kaojungnaling]

I love Top chef cuase Kristen kish

[@michaelsmith1262]

Nina got robbed because Tom had a man-crush on that tool Nicholas.

[@penumbra9009]

Awesome. Love getting to know the chefs like this :)

[@andrewenserro3185]

Could you show the all the intros of each season of top chef?

[@jump3dd]

Where's Sheldon?

[@Zennofobic]

sigh... it's tough watching Kirsten transition into Mako

[@angelahenry5049]

So I was wondering about Kirsten look is she a transgender person now? I hadnt heard that but she looks so manly now

[@Zennofobic]

@@angelahenry5049 I guess Brook and Stephanie are the only women to have won Top Chef... we claim Melissa and Kirsten

[@angelahenry5049]

@@Zennofobic no Kirsten the Asian chef won also. She came back from last chance kitchen to take the win. I think she beat Brooke, Brooke won all stars