Top Chef at SXSW

Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio and Bravo exec Andy Cohen are attending South by Southwest, the annual music, film, and interactive media show in Austin, TX. Here are reports from the Austin Chronicle, Time Magazine and Culture Map Austin about what Tom and Andy had to say during a panel discussion about Bravo's use of "transmedia" and whether Top Chef's "Last Chance Kitchen" webisode series will return. Spoiler alert: No decision has yet been made about where Top Chef 10 will be filmed, so it's clearly a ways off.

Richard Blais is also scheduled to be at SXSW March 16, with Snacky Tunes: Food, Music, and Internet Radio.

If you're at SXSW, or even if you're not, AllTopChef is welcoming first-hand accounts of Top Chef news, cooking TC chefs' dishes, and diners' experiences at TC contestants' restaurants. If you are lucky enough to score a seat at Top Chef Season 9 winner Paul Qui's Uchiko in Austin, we'd love to hear from you and have you guest post.


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TC News and Information 2.7.11

Congratulations to All-Star Richard Blais and his wife Jazmin on the birth of their second daughter, Embry Lotus!

And congrats to Season 6 finalist Bryan Voltaggio and his wife, who are expecting their second child.

All-Star Mike Isabella will do a pop-up Valentine's dinner.

Departed All-Star Dale Levitski, Just Desserts’ Yigit Pura, and Bravo’s own Andy Cohen made Out Magazine’s list of Top 100 Most Eligible Gay Bachelors.

And, uh, Season 2's Ilan Hall wants to be on Dancing With the Stars? So suggests this new facebook page.

TC News and Information 1.09.11

"Top Chef "and TC judge Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" have been nominated for Producers Guild of America awards (in separate categories).

Bravo grand fromage Andy Cohen gets a lengthy write-up in the New York Times.

Congrats to Season 4's Nikki Cascone on the birth of her son, and on her newly opened NYC restaurant, Octavia's Porch. Nikki talks about her "global Jewish" Lower East Side restaurant here.

For those of you who've been thinking Mike Isabella looks pudgier on All-Stars than he did back in Season 6, here's what he has to say.

Richard Blais was working the Bravo stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. You can see him demonstrate how to make "popcorn-sicles" in this video.

Blais is also cooking a James Bond-themed Valentine’s Day dinner for the Nashville Film Festival. Tickets are, um, $2,500 per couple or $8,000 a table.

Or you could attend this January 11 dinner in Denver prepared by Hosea Rosenberg for a mere $75 per person.

Staying in and cooking at home during the lean, chilly winter months? Chicagoan Dale Levitski offers suggestions on that topic and more in this new interview.

And you still have until January 31 to enter a fish taco recipe in the Wild Alaska fish taco competition, which Top Chef Masters contestant Susan Feniger talks about in this podcast.

Casey Thompson may have been PYKAG'd last week, but her restaurant, Brownstone, made Eater's "Heat Map" of 9 top Dallas restaurants to eat at "right now." You can also read Casey's own take on the episode that led to her departure on her blog.