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The 'Steaks' Are High for Top Chef Las Vegas

August 3, 2009 at 7:19 PM | by globetrotting gourmet | 0 Comments

The countdown is on for the Season Six premiere of Top Chef: Las Vegas. We’re setting our Tivo to Bravo TV on Wednesday, August 19th, 9 p.m. ET/PT for all the tasty Sin City fun and to see if any of our Stalking Top Chef sightings ever panned out.

Just in case there's a few of you out there who aren't familiar with Top Chef, here’s how it works: Week after week, "cheftestants" show off their culinary chops over a progression of quickfire tests and elimination challenges. Losing chefs are whittled down and told to pack up their knives and go home.

Last man (or woman) standing will receive some serious swag: $100,000 furnished by the makers of the Glad family of products, $100,000 of merch provided by Macy's, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and will earn the title of "Top Chef."

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Dining at Craftsteak is Now More Affordable, Thanks to 'Halfsteak'

Where: 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
July 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM | by globetrotting gourmet | 0 Comments

Craftsteak has always been a “must stop” for carnivores on the Strip, but with owner Tom Colicchio’s rising fame on Top Chef, armchair foodies are descending upon the dark hued restaurant in droves hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrity chef.

Dining at Craftsteak is typically a spendy affair. It’s a true steak destination, offering expertly prepared cuts of beef, roasted to grilled, from lean to marble to the melt-in-your-mouth super marble (Wagyu and A5).

In an effort to make meat more recession-friendly, Craftsteak just unrolled a new Halfsteak menu during the week. Portions are notoriously huge at Craftsteak, so bring your appetite, but don’t worry about breaking the bank.

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Stalking 'Top Chef Las Vegas': The M Resort's Restaurant Was Faked?

June 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

The filming for Top Chef Season 6: Las Vegas has officially ended, with the show throwing a wrap party at Blush inside The Wynn on Saturday night. But that doesn't mean chatter about the upcoming season is over.

Norm Clarke reports that while the M Resort was an official host site for the filming, the scenes for the M resort were actually shot on a soundstage in an industrial park.

"They built a replica of the (M) restaurant at an industrial park," a spy told me Sunday, a day after Bravo wrapped filming. "That added more space between the ovens, etc. so it would be easier to get around. More control over the shoot also," the spy added.

And we imagine that the soundstage was necessary for the elimination rounds and the fake pantry/storage room that they always have the cheftestants sweating out the elimination rounds in.

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Stalking 'Top Chef Las Vegas': The M Resort's Buffet Studio

Where: 12300 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89044
May 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM | by Erika Pope | 4 Comments

Rumors have been circulating for a few weeks on foodie fanatic blogs that Season 6 of "Top Chef" will be filming at the new M Resort, the one we told you about yesterday that laid off 100 workers last week. Indeed, we even heard from a very inside source of our own that the popular show's sixth season would be filming here.

But our attempts to verify what would seem to be a very simple little fact have been weirdly unsatisfying. First of all, we totally don’t buy the PR rep for M who claimed total ignorance as to whether or not the show was filming there. If you’ve ever been at a Vegas hotel when they’re shooting a movie or reality show or, heck – even a local newscast – on site, you’ll see at least one PR type standing there, cell phone to ear, babysitting the crew. No one gets to film at a property unless they’ve cleared it with the PR people. It’s house rules.

Mystifyingly, we were told by the PR person to “just call the main number and ask the operator” if the show was filming on site. Huh? The operator would know and you don’t? Again, we don’t buy it.

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