Top Chefs Sam Talbot, Brian Malarkey, and Nyesha Arrington - Out, Expanding, and Doing Double Duty

Sam Talbot is out at NYC’s Imperial Number Nine at the Mondrian, according to reports here and here.

Brian Malarkey is opening three new fabric-themed restaurants in San Diego. In addition to Searsucker and Burlap, you can read about Herringbone, Gingham, and Gabardine here.

Did you catch the sneak peak of Chef Hunters on the Food Network Sunday night? Top Chef: Texas contestant Nyesha Arrington competed on that reality food show as well. Video here, or catch the show’s official premiere Thurs. night at 10:00 Eastern.

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TC News & Information 7.13.10

Remember Chef Brian Hill from Top Chef San Francisco? How about Mia Gaines-Alt from Top Chef Los Angeles? The Root has a nice feature on African-American Top Chef contestants from the current and past seasons. Read it here.

The Top Chef franchise got 5 Emmy nominations this year. The original show received nods in the categories of Outstanding Reality Competition, cinematography, interactive media creative achievement, and picture editing. And Top Chef Masters received a cinematography nomination. Go Top Chef!

There's a Facebook campaign to bring back Chef John Somerville for another season of Top Chef. It worked for Betty White and SNL, so who knows? Click here to join the group.

Find more interviews with last week's eliminated cheftestants Lynne Gigliotti and Arnold Myint at Fancast!