Amazing Tasting of Top Chef food
This past weekend, the Top Chef On Tour van stopped in Chicago for cooking demonstrations and Q&A sessions at the Green City Market. Having gone to this last year (Dale from season 3 and season 4 Top Chef winner Stephanie) and loving it, I thought it was worth going again….and it was.
This year the chefs were Antonia (season 4) and Radhika (season 5). Radhika cooked an Indian 10 spice rubbed halibut and served it on a bed of butter braised corn, and lentils cooked in bacon. Everyone in the tent got the chance to taste it and it was flavorful, rich and melted in your mouth. Radhika recently left her chef job at Between Boutique Cafe and Lounge on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago to pursue other interests (does Top Chef ruin your chef career but make you rich and famous???) for a while. Having been to Between a couple times during her time there I am a big fan of her cooking and the halibut lived up to my expectations. I had hoped to provide you a link to the recipe which is to be posted on http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/the-tour-recipes but their site has been down for a few days and I did not want to delay this post this any longer. I suspect Antonia cooked in the next session so there may be a recipe out there for what she made as well. That one I will have to download and make myself to see if she really is a Top Chef.
Top Chef Masters starts on Bravo June 10th. This will be an interesting competition since all the chefs are already famous. The competition should be fun to watch. There are chefs from all over to include Art Smith and Rick Bayless from Chicago. I am looking forward to watching it. Hope you get to see it too.