Top Chef Season 7 Episodes

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Season 7 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - House of Chef-presentatives

Bravo’s Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series "Top Chef" returns for its seventh season bringing a dose of heated competition to the nation's capitol, Washington D.C. The 17 new chef'testants team up for their first elimination challenge in which they must create a dish that represents their own constituency, where they are from and what they represent. The chefs serve their dishes at the famous National Cherry Blossom festival in Washington D.C. Returning as host is Padma Lakshmi, and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons. World-renowned chef Eric Ripert joins the series as a regular guest judge.
Episode 2 - Outside the Lunch Box

In the second episode of "Top Chef D.C," the chef’testants support First Lady Michelle Obama's Let’s Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity. The chefs must take over the cafeteria at the local middle school and create healthy, kid-friendly meals spending only $2.68 per child, which is the reimbursement rate schools receive for each child who is eligible for free lunch through the National School Lunch Program. White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass serves as guest judge.
Episode 5 - Farm Policy

The chef’testants get crabby this week when the quickfire requires them to cook with mounds of D.C.'s most famous ingredient, the blue crab. For the elimination challenge, they go to a Virginian farm to cook with fresh ingredients. Patrick O'Connell, owner of The Inn at Little Washington, is guest judge.
Episode 8 - Foreign Affairs

The chefs must cook exotic Ethiopian cuisine for the quickfire, and for the elimination are tasked with creating a dish based on one of the foreign embassies in D.C. Chefs, ambassadors and dignitaries representing each country join in the judging. Guest judging will be Marcus Samuelsson, owner of NYC’s Aquavit restaurant, and Jose Andres, Spanish chef and host of public television’s "Made In Spain."
Episode 9 - Restaurant Wars

The chefs are blindfolded in a classic cooking relay race for the elimination. hen it's Restaurant Wars time! The chefs are divided into two teams: donkeys versus elephants. The diners will taste each menu and "vote" for the team they want to win. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi serves as the guest judge for the quickfire, and New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni serves as guest judge for the famed Restaurant Wars challenge.
Episode 10 - Covert Cuisine

For the quickfire, the chefs must guess the ingredients inside a mystery box. For the elimination, the chefs must transform a well-known dish into something entirely new, cooking for none other than CIA Director Leon Panetta, who knows a thing or two about taking on a new identity. The chefs serve CIA Director Panetta and his closest allies in his private dining room inside the agency's closely guarded headquarters. Wylie Dufrense, owner of WD-50 in New York City, is the guest judge.
Episode 14 - Finale, Pt. 2

The final three chefs battle it out to cook the best meal of their lives and earn the prestigious title of Bravo's "Top Chef" in the final episode of "Top Chef: D.C."


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