Top Chef

Top Chef
Genre	Reality competition Cooking show
Presented by	Katie Lee Padma Lakshmi Kristen Kish
Starring	Top Chef contestants
Judges	Tom Colicchio Gail Simmons Ted Allen Toby Young Eric Ripert Anthony Bourdain Hugh Acheson Emeril Lagasse Wolfgang Puck Richard Blais Graham Elliot Nilou Motamed
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	22
No. of episodes	330 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dan Cutforth Jane Lipsitz Casey Kriley
Running time	42 minutes
Production company	Magical Elves Productions
Original release
Network	Bravo
Release	March 8, 2006 (2006-03-08) – present
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Top Chef is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo in March 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants eliminated in each episode. The show is produced by Magical Elves Productions, the company that created Project Runway.^[1]

The success of the show has resulted in multiple spin-offs, such as Top Chef Masters, Top Chef: Just Desserts, Top Chef Junior, Top Chef Amateurs, and Top Chef Family Style, as well as Spanish-language spin-offs, including Top Chef Estrellas and Top Chef VIP. Numerous international adaptations of the show have also been produced.