Knife Fight

In the season premiere, Mike Isabella of Washington, D.C.'s famed Graffiato restaurant collides with the toast of Ft. Worth's culinary scene, Tim Love.

Staten Island native Freddy Vargas and his Old World Italian cuisine challenge foraging expert Justin Will's new school technique. See who can make secret ingredients pompon, wild arugula and oxtail sing!

Big Texan Chris Shepherd comes to Hudson House chef Brooke Williamson's home turf to do battle! How will they handle bottarga, mustard frills and live Alaskan king crab? Carefully!

Former minor league pitcher and chef at the Wallace in L.A. fights for home field advantage against Hollywood's Johnny Zone of La Poubelle. See who can knock it out of the park with dishes featuring aji, cardoons and coconuts!

Friends of 15 years face off! Sal Marino and Mark Peel wow the judges with their incredible skill in this hotly contested bout. Their weapons tonight are English peas and tendrils, sea snails and venison!

Two of Los Angeles' finest chefs square off at The Gorbals! Acabar's Kevin Luzande and City Tavern's Jessica Christensen match wits with special ingredients lentils, beer and sweetbreads!

Good friends and rivals Benjamin Bettinger and Patrick McKee face off to make their boss proud in a Portland-flavored slugfest! Each chef wows with his rabbit dish, but how he prepares the pig ears will decide the match!

There will be blood! Masters of Asian cuisine Tin Vuong of Abigaile and Perry Cheung of Phorage spill pig blood into six unforgettable dishes.

"Top Chef" alum Kevin Gillespie of Atlanta's Gunshow draws local underdog Eric Park of the Black Hogg gastropub in a super-close fight to the finish! Preparing this episode's special ingredient well will be no small "feet!"

It's the Battle of New Orleans! Commander's Palace chef Tory McPhail takes on his former employee Sue Zemanick of Ivy to settle a years-old score. Find out who makes the best bison dish.

We have a tag team match! Two teams race against the clock and each other to churn out delicious food with three very different ingredients. Don't turn your nose up at live sea cucumber, dragonfruit and quail!

Portland's Master Butcher Adam Sappington meets Kansas City's James Beard Award winning chef Michael Smith in an epic pasta-beef battle. See who grabs the bull by the horns!

Fig Restaurant chef Ray Garcia Challenges season 1 winner Ricardo Zarate in an all-out dinner duel. Find out if Ray takes down the reigning champ with his surprise third dish!

Seattle chef Jason Wilson and good friend Greg Denton of Portland match wits in a battle of Northwest titans! See who prepares juniper berries, chicken gizzards and Conger eel best in the tightest competition in the show's history.

It's a southern showdown! Best friends Kelly English of Memphis and Tandy Wilson of Nashville compete in an all-out battle for the big knife. Find out which chef will be taking it home!

Famous chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Traci Des Jardins put their friendship aside for a fiery night at The Gorbals! See who gets the most flavor out of special ingredients yuca, pheasant and skate wing!

It's Nor Cal vs. So Cal when Santa Barbara's Jason Paluska and Oakland's Kyle Itani duke it out for the big knife and bragging rights. With special ingredients cilantro, collard greens and live halibut, it's anyone's game!

Two Bay Area titans face off in the Battle of San Francisco! Locanda Osteria chef Anthony Strong challenges his hero and 2014 James Beard Award winner Charles Phan using ingredients burrata, prickly pear, flying fish and monkfish.

We hope they know how to cook lamb! Harold Moore from Commerce in New York City and Kevin Nashan from St. Louis restaurant Sidney Street Cafe butcher and prepare the whole animal.

It's an L.A. Mexican cuisine battle of the century when chefs Gilberto Cetina and Daniel Elkins go head-to-head against chefs Ricardo Diaz and Tony Alcazar with special ingredients gooseberries, calf liver and cactus.

It's a battle of the young guns when Top Chef top 5 finalist Brian Huskey dukes it out against sous chef Mei Lin. With special ingredients silkie chicken, aloe vera and taro root, find out which of these up-and-comers' dishes will shine!

It's a Rocky Mountain battle when Colorado chefs Steve Redzikowski and Kelly Liken go head-to-head for bragging rights in the Centennial State. With beef heart, dandelion greens and spot prawns as special ingredients, see which chef can pull off 3 dishes.

La Petite Grocery owner Justin Devillier travels from New Orleans to challenge The Churchill executive chef Michael Bryant on his home turf! Both men enter confident; see who exits with egg on his face!

In the season finale, best friends Edi Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban duke it out for bragging rights--but will this episode's special ingredients beef cheeks, romanesco cauliflower and crickets make the battle too close to call? Find out!