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Luck, Be a Ladle: Top Chef Vegas Sets a Date

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | July 8, 2009 | +

If you follow the careers of celebrity chefs, or just like to gamble, you know that one of the surest steps in a successful career is opening a satellite restaurant in Las Vegas. So it’s only fitting that the next installment of Top Chef will take place in Sin City, and today Bravo announced a premiere date, August 26. Excerpts from the announcement after the jump:

What happens in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas. The sixth season of the No. 1 food show on cable, Bravo’s Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series returns with “Top Chef: Las Vegas,” premiering Wednesday, August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The 17 new chef’testants take on Sin City this season to see if they have what it takes to become Top Chef. And for the first time ever – the series has a set of brothers competing against each other.

This season captures Sin City’s high stakes and high rollers in addition to exploring what Vegas has to offer beyond the Strip. Some of the top names in food, movies and entertainment including Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Natalie Portman, Daniel Boulud, Penn & Teller, Hubert Keller, Laurent Tourondel, Tim Love, Michelle Bernstein, Tyler Florence, Charlie Palmer, Paul Bartolotta, Nigella Lawson and Jerome Bocuse will be featured this season on “Top Chef: Las Vegas.”

Once again returning to the kitchen, cookbook author, actress and host Padma Lakshmi presides over the judge’s table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, renowned culinary figure and chef/owner Craft Restaurants, and judges Gail Simmons, of Food & Wine magazine and Toby Young, food critic and best-selling author of the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.

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