Gabriel Pascuzzi

TOP CHEFS18, E1

First Impressions

Fifteen of the country's best chefs compete in Portland, Oregon. For their first challenge, chefs combine their favorite ingredients into one cohesive dish. Contestants must create a dish featuring one of Portland's iconic local birds.
TOP CHEFS1, E1

Who Deserves to Be Here

The cast will be thrown into the demanding kitchen of famed Fleur de Lys for the quickfire challenge where guest judge Hubert Keller joins host Katie Lee Joel and two other judges to help to make the decision on who must "pack up their knives" first.
TOP CHEFS18, E2

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 and find they have 30 minutes to serve eight plates of breakfast.
TOP CHEFS6, E1

Sin City Vice

Seventeen new culinary contestants are introduced in Las Vegas.
TOP CHEFS18, E8

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.
TOP CHEFS18, E11

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 re-create it.

Guest Appearances