This is it, Top Chef fanatics. It's the finale with the cast that everyone predicted since episode one. The V brothers Bryan and Michael versus bearded Kevin. Will one of the brothers overtake Kevin's consistency? Will pregnant Padma eat something not fit for the baby? Will the brothers show a smidgen of emotion?

On tonight's episode, the conclusion of the two-part finale, still in Napa Valley, the three cook the best meal of their lives to determine who is Top Chef. Last season, the final trio were tasked to cook the best three-course meals ever.



The winner of this season of Top Chef gets, among others, a spread in Food & Wine magazine, cooking merchandise, and $100,000. Yes, and bragging rights for their respective hometowns and home-restaurants.

The three chefs had pretty much been invincible throughout this season of Top Chef, and, save for a hitch here and there, have outshone everyone else, both by skill and composure. Just ask Jennifer Carroll, the last person to be booted out prior to the top three, who buckled under pressure and put in just a pinch more salt.

A Voltaggio sister, Staci Rosenberger, having two brothers in the show is "amazing."

"It's also nerve-racking," she tells the Baltimore Sun. "One of them could possibly win it, and the other one is going to suffer - not suffer, but be upset."

Both Bryan and Michael are from Frederick, Maryland, though Michael, the younger one, had moved to the West Coast, in Pasadena, California. Kevin, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a true-blue Southerner.


Source: Bravo, Baltimore Sun
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