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Jamie Tran Battled a Bum Knee and Anxiety During the Latest ‘Top Chef: Portland’ The chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep talks about her experience on the show Share this story David Moir/Bravo Jamie Tran, the chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep, the Eater 38 restaurant in the southwest where Tran melds her Vietnamese upbringing with French techniques, competes on Top Chef: Portland with a goal of winning $250,000. Tran already made her mark in Las Vegas with The Black Sheep, which won an Eater Award for Restaurant of the Year. In Episode Four, “Thrown for a Loop,” Tran continues ...

Top Chef Kicks Off Its Eighteenth Season in Portland: Recap Vulture.com 2 hrs ago Hands up, utensils down: Top Chef is back! For its eighteenth season, filmed entirely during the pandemic, the reality cooking show heads to Portland, Oregon, with a cast of 15 executive chefs and restaurant owners from across the country. It’s the first time Top Chef has ever visited the Rose City, and this season the “cheftestants” will compete in a variety of challenges celebrating Portland’s unique cuisines, ingredients, and flavors. “Portland is an amazing city filled with iconic indigenous in...

Well, my friends, it’s that time of year. Some folks may like to call it spring, but others (like myself) call it Top Chef Canada season...Well, Season 9 to be exact! Ever an avid fan of the popular Canadian culinary competition series, I have followed along with and written about Top Chef Canada on and off since its inception in April 2011. Fast forward to 10 years later and the format has proven a recipe for success in terms of turning locally-known chefs into full-blown national personalities...but only if they play their culinary cards right. Tonight’s season premiere opens with a d...

Portland Monthly food editor Katherine Chew Hamilton, nor am I PoMo arts editor Conner Reed; I am not even, though I devoutly wish I was, our magazine’s esteemed food critic Karen Brooks (who, fun fact, was once a judge on the very program of which we are here to speak!).   But look, we have a magazine to make, and everyone is busy, and sometimes a mere news editor who happens to have a penchant for reality TV worms her way into the Top Chef rotation, okay?   I used to be a big Top Chef fan, but somewhere around the Seattle/Boston seasons of 2014/2015, I fel...

On a thoughtful episode of Top Chef, with competitors exploring the African diaspora, Dawn Burrell came out on top. Yup, Chef Burrell won the Elimination Challenge. For the Quickfire Challenge, the chefs had to make ... a layered dessert (save your groans, please) using sponsored product Talenti gelato (again, save those groans). Burrell went for a parfait of toasted rice mousse, blackberry caramel, and black sesame crumble. Judge Carrie Baird said, "Thank you, good job." That's what we got; she finished somewhere in the middle.  Then came the Elimination Challenge, for which the...