Season 10

17 EPISODES • 2012

Top Chef: Seattle was the tenth season of the American reality television series Top Chef, which aired on Bravo. The season was announced on September 19, 2012, and premiered on November 7, 2012. The competition was initially filmed in Seattle, Washington before moving to Juneau, Alaska for 3 episodes, and then concluding in Los Angeles, California. 21 new contestants and 3 Top Chef veterans were selected to compete for the title of "Top Chef" and the $125,000 grand prize. Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen, the web series introduced in the previous season which puts the eliminated contestants against each other in head-to-head challenges to battle for a chance to re-enter the main competition, also returned. The winner continued to compete in the season finale. In addition, viewers could vote each week for chefs eliminated from the Last Chance Kitchen to move on in the "Save a Chef" competition. The winner of the final vote was "saved", and earned a spot in the final round of the Last Chance Kitchen.

Season 9

Episodes

1: The Ultimate Chef Test

Nov 7, 2012

Twenty-one contestants compete for fifteen spots in real-world challenges administered by the judges.

2: A Shock at the Space Needle

Nov 14, 2012

The fifteen chefs who remain after last week's qualifying challenge must think on their feet and at a high elevation when a twist complicates their challenge.

3: Tom vs. Emeril: Turkeypocalypse

Nov 21, 2012

The chefs choose international dumpling recipes for the Quickfire, and then team up with either Tom or Emeril in a Thanksgiving challenge.

4: 50's Food Flashback

Nov 28, 2012

First the chefs must demonstrate their knife skills, and then they board a time machine, metaphorically at least, so they can design menus from the 1950s.

5: Pike Place Pickle

Dec 5, 2012

6: Even the Famous Come Home

Dec 12, 2012

7: Foiled Again

Dec 19, 2012

8: Jalapeño Business

Dec 26, 2012

9: Past Suppers

Jan 2, 2013

10: Battle Before the War

Jan 9, 2013