A Napa chef will join the Season 22 cast of “Top Chef” when it debuts March 13 on Bravo.
Chef Vincenzo Loseto, chef de cuisine of St. Helena’s one Michelin-starred Press restaurant, joins 14 rising star chefs from the United States and Canada for the chance to win $250,000 and the title of “Top Chef.” The winner will also receive a feature in Food & Wine magazine and headline a dinner at the James Beard House in New York.
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The Bay Area’s Anna El-Wattar of San Francisco’s Birch & Rye is also a contestant, along with chefs from Kentucky, Texas, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Montreal.
Shot in Canada, this season of “Top Chef” will showcase ingredients from throughout the country’s forests, prairies, farms and coastlines. The contestants will also perform decidedly nonculinary stunts, including a climb on the 1,815-foot National Tower in Toronto.
Chefs Casey Thompson of the now-closed Folktable restaurant and Douglas Keane of Cyrus are both former “Top Chef” contestants. Keane also won “Top Chef Masters” in 2013.
More details about the show at bravotv.com/top-chef.
You can reach Dining Editor Heather Irwin at heather.irwin@pressdemocrat.com. Follow Heather on Instagram @biteclubeats.