Top Chef

Season seven is getting political! Join 17 new cheftestants as they battle it out for the title of Top Chef in America's capitol - Washington, D.C.!

In the second episode of "Top Chef D.C," the chef'testants support First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity. The chefs must take over the cafeteria at the local middle school and create healthy, kid-friendly meals spending only $2.68 per child,

Capitol Hill? More like Capitol Grill! The chefs serve up a classic picnic feast at Mount Vernon, the home of the first U.S. president, George Washington.

This week, it's all about hospitality as Hilton Hotels and Resorts enlists the chefs to create a dish that fits their most demanding guest's needs.

The unmissable quick-fire challenge leaves the chefs feeling crabby as they cook up mounds of D.C.'s most famous ingredient, blue crab.

The chefs declare WAR as the group is divided into two teams to create cold entrees. Which team will prove victorious as Top Chef's Cold War kicks off?

The chef'testants attempt to create culinary delights that can be speared with a toothpick and served at a Congressional party for the quickfire challenge. For elimination, they must prepare a power lunch at the city's elite Palm restaurant. Congressman Aaron Schock of Illinois serves as the guest quickfire, and Oprah Winfrey's former personal chef Art Smith is the guest judge for the elimination.

The chefs must cook exotic Ethiopian cuisine for the quickfire, and for the elimination are tasked with creating a dish based on one of the foreign embassies in D.C. Chefs, ambassadors and dignitaries representing each country join in the judging. Guest judging will be Marcus Samuelsson, owner of NYC's Aquavit restaurant, and Jose Andres, Spanish chef and host of public television's

Get ready for battle because Restaurant Wars is back! The chefs are divided into two teams and the diners can't wait to VOTE on their favourite!

For the quickfire, the chefs must guess the ingredients inside a mystery box. elimination,chefs must transform a well-known dish into something entirely new,cooking for none other than CIA Director Leon Panetta, who knows a thing or two about taking on a new identity.chefs serve CIA Director Panetta and his closest allies in his private dining room inside the agency's closely guarded headquarters.

The six chefs take over concession stands at Nationals Park, but ballparks aren't just serving peanuts and hotdogs anymore. Which chef will strike out?

The competition blasts off this week as an astronaut orbiting Earth blinks onto a large screen instructing chefs on this week's elimination challenge to come up with space food creations that do not taste like moon rocks.winner will have their dish served in spaceDana Cowin editor in chief of Food & Wine magazine and with Apollo Astronaut Buzz Aldrin making a very special guest appearance.

Make sure you have your passport handy cuz the final chefs are packing their bags and heading to Singapore! Who will win a coveted spot in the finale?

It's the showdown of a lifetime as the final cheftestants battle it out to cook the best meal of their lives and earn the prestigious title of Top Chef!

The drama is served piping hot as Andy Cohen reunites the judges and cheftestants of season even to dish about this season's good, bad and overcooked.