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Top Chef
Season Five
SERIES: Bravo, Wednesday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Top Chef
Critic Score
Metascore: 75 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.6 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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Starring Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, Toby Young, and Gail Simmons

Seventeen contestants compete for the title of Top Chef in New York City for the show's fifth season.

GENRE(S): Food & Cooking, Reality (Competitive)
CREATED BY: Dan Cutforth
Jane Lipsitz
Shauna Minoprio
FIRST AIR DATE: November 12, 2008

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

80
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The challenges--including a head-to-head competition where pairs of chefs are sent into various New York neighborhoods and told to cook the local cuisine--seem appropriately Big Apple-centric without being silly.
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80
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Top Chef promises more than a clash of personalities; it inspires patriotism.
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80
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Skilled chefs, great dishes, a few doomed nervous Nellies and lots of petty squabbles ahead? What more could a loyal Top Chef fan ask for?
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75
Newsday
By dint of smart casting, imaginative challenges and A-list guests, Top Chef retains its three stars for culinary entertainment.
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75
New York Post Linda Stasi
Great fun, good personalities and some fine food. All in all, the start to another good season(ing).
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60
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Top Chef is a show where you wouldn't mind having almost any of these people fix your dinner. That may sound like a formula for disaster among these types of shows, but in reality, it works out well.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Red D. gave it a4:
I don't like the trend that Top Chef, Top Design, and Project Runway are having of getting more experienced contestants. Watching people who already have made a name for themselves is not as interesting or exciting as the first seasons when people were experienced but not already top-of-the-line professionals. The judges are all returning from prior seasons. It will be interesting to see what challenges are created this time around.

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