Top Chef Ilan Hall isn’t as blinged as you think. Or is he?

The winner of Bravo’s Top Chef competition.

Episode 1: A new raft of Top Chef contestants enters the kitchen.

CHOW editors and “Top Chef” fanatics look back on the second season.

Marcel, like, loses the “Top Chef” competition.

The Top Chef battle comes down to technique over soul.

The arrogant one prevails over the female one and the gay one.

Yes he did – here’s an interview he did on Friday, 1/26 (and a big EWWWWW!!! on the leading picture of Ilan! I did NOT need to see that at 9am on a Sunday morning!)....

Diamonds are a chef’s best friend, according to the newly loaded (and decked-out) Ilan Hall.

New York Magazine has a tasty little item this week about Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. The overall theme: faint praise and implicit disrespect.

Bravo finally releases definitive news on the third season of Top Chef.

This week’s episode of Top Chef takes a step away from the food to focus more fully on mega-drama and frat-house antics—and some loyal fans have pledged to stop watching because of it.

The gossip and fur continue to fly as more Top Chef contestants talk to the press.

The bloggers dish about the second season of Bravo’s Top Chef. We distill, so you don’t have to.

"Asked if he trusted Lakshmi’s culinary taste, Ilan Hall, a line cook at Casa Mono, asked a Bravo flack, ‘Um, are we allowed to say disparaging things about Padma?’ No. ‘She’s beautiful,’ Hall offered."