Top Chef Season 23 premieres Monday, March 9 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, with 15 chefs competing for $250,000 and a lineup of industry prizes hosted by Season 10 winner Kristen Kish.
Top Chef is back. Season 23 of Bravo’s long-running culinary competition premieres Monday, March 9 at 9 p.m. ET, with 15 chefs from across the country competing for the title and a prize package that extends well beyond the $250,000 check waiting at the finish line.
The winner will also receive a feature in Food and Wine magazine, an appearance at the annual Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado, the opportunity to headline a dinner at James Beard House in New York, and an invitation to present at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards in Chicago. It is one of the more comprehensive prize packages in competitive cooking television.
How and where to watch Top Chef Season 23
Top Chef Season 23 premiere airs Monday at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, but viewers do not have to wait for the broadcast window to watch. The episode is already available for free on Peacock, Bravo’s YouTube channel, and video on demand ahead of the Monday night premiere.
For those who miss the broadcast, the episode will be available on Peacock starting Tuesday, March 10. Following the premiere, new episodes air each Monday at 9:30 p.m. ET, with each episode available on Peacock the day after it broadcasts on Bravo.
The 15 chefs competing this season
The Season 23 cast brings together chefs from cities including Chicago, Houston, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, representing a wide geographic range. The 15 competitors are Sieger Bayer from Chicago, Jassi Bindra from Houston, Sherry Cardoso from Brooklyn, Brittany Cochran from Charlotte, Oscar Diaz from Durham, Brandon Dearden from Hamilton, Montana, Jonathan Dearden from Alexandria, Virginia, Duyen Ha from Los Angeles, Jennifer Lee Jackson from the Detroit area, Anthony Jones from Alexandria, Day Anais Joseph from Atlanta, Laurence Louie from Quincy, Massachusetts, Rhoda Magbitang from Kailua-Kona, Justin Tootla from the Detroit area, and Nana Araba Wilmot from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The previous season was won by Tristen Epps-Long of Houston, who took the title in Season 22.
The judges and what to expect from the season of Top Chef
Kristen Kish returns as host for Season 23. Kish won Season 10 of Top Chef in 2013 and has brought a chef’s perspective to the hosting role since taking over from Padma Lakshmi. Head judge Tom Colicchio and longtime judge Gail Simmons are both back in their established roles, giving the panel a familiar foundation for longtime viewers.
Guest judges this season will include Madison LeCroy and Craig Conover, both known from the Bravo reality series Southern Charm, adding a reality television crossover element to the judging table.
The format follows the structure the show has used throughout its run, with elimination challenges each week and the field narrowing until one chef is named the winner. With 15 competitors at the start, the season has enough depth to develop storylines across multiple episodes before the field begins to thin significantly.
For viewers who have never watched the show, Monday’s premiere is a reasonable entry point. For longtime fans, the combination of a strong prize package, a returning judge panel, and a geographically diverse cast gives Season 23 the foundation to be a competitive and watchable run.