S18 Episode 1

First Impressions

Fifteen of the country's best chefs compete in Portland, Oregon. For their first challenge, chefs combine their favourite ingredients into one cohesive dish. Contestants must also create a dish featuring one of Portland's iconic local birds.

55 mins · Thu, 1 Apr 2021

S18 Episode 2

Trouble Brewing

The chefs enter the kitchen to find Padma and seven hungry all-star chefs: Amar Santana, Melissa King, Kwame Onwuachi, Dale Talde, Gregory Gourdet, Carrie Baird and Richard Blais. The chefs have 30 minutes to serve up eight plates of breakfast.

55 mins · Thu, 8 Apr 2021

S18 Episode 3

Pan African Portland

The pressure is laid on the chefs in the Quickfire Challenge as they are tasked to make a layered dessert; Gregory and Kwame take the chefs on a tour of restaurants that feature food from the African diaspora.

44 mins · Thu, 15 Apr 2021

S18 Episode 4

Thrown for a Loop

The chefs must create a dish featuring Campbell's soup for Padma and Dale Talde; the cheftestants get thrown for a loop when they find out they won't be shopping for their Elimination Challenge.

44 mins · Thu, 22 Apr 2021

S18 Episode 5

Meet You at the Drive-In

The chefs are tasked to create a dish featuring roses or rose products, inspired by the mother figure in their lives; the chefs will go head-to-head at the first-ever Top Chef Drive-In where each team must create dishes based on popular movie genres.

55 mins · Thu, 29 Apr 2021

S18 Episode 6

Stumptown U.S.A.

The chefs are transported into a magical kitchen forest for the Quickfire Challenge where they make a dish featuring mushrooms; the cheftestants are paired up to create a surf and turf dish featuring local fish and game.

44 mins · Thu, 6 May 2021

S18 Episode 7

Feeding the Frontlines

Chef José Andrés calls in to recruit the chefs to join World Central Kitchen, tasking the chefs with delivering over 500 meals to frontline workers at three local hospitals in Portland.

44 mins · Thu, 13 May 2021

S18 Episode 8

Restaurant Wars

The eight remaining chefs split into teams and are tasked with creating a Chef's Table restaurant concept, where they must serve a seven-course, high-end tasting menu to the judges and All-Star panel.

55 mins · Thu, 20 May 2021

S18 Episode 9

Portland-ia

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein from the comedy series Portlandia task the chefs with creating a dish with hipster ingredients using only old vintage appliances and equipment. The chefs must develop and create a recipe fit for the home cook.

44 mins · Thu, 27 May 2021

S18 Episode 10

Tournament of Tofu

Ed Lee enters the kitchen and tells the chefs they will be competing tournament style. The chefs duke it out at the Portland Japanese Gardens, where they must create dishes featuring various textures of tofu.

44 mins · Thu, 3 Jun 2021

S18 Episode 11

Blind Ambitions

In teams of two, the chefs each take a turn entering the box where they blindly taste a dish created by guest judge Gabriel Rucker and then must try to recreate it.

44 mins · Thu, 10 Jun 2021

S18 Episode 12

The Cheesier the Better

The final four chefs near the end of their journey in Portland, Padma; popular chef and special guest Massimo Bottura has the chefs pull inspiration from his famous parmigiano reggiano dish.

44 mins · Thu, 17 Jun 2021

S18 Episode 13

Shellfishly Delicious

The chefs honour the area where James Beard spent his summers, creating both a hot dish and a cold dish with one of his favourite ingredients, Dungeness crab.

55 mins · Thu, 24 Jun 2021

S18 Episode 14

The Next Top Chef Is ...

After 13 gruelling weeks of competition, the chefs must create the best four-course meal of their lives and serve it to an esteemed table of guests.

44 mins · Thu, 1 Jul 2021

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