Micah Fields

Each finalist will cook the best 5 dishes in their culinary arsenal live in front of a studio audience of their friends, families and all previous Top Chef winners.

The chefs cook up new concepts for more than 200 people at the city’s premier food event, Bite of Seattle.

15 chefs make it to Seattle. As a surprising twist changes the course of the competition, one chef cranks up the heat her own way, and one turn of the Seattle Space Needle determines who will go home. Guest judge: Tom Douglas

The chefs must make different varieties of dumplings from all over the world. In the Elimination Challenge, Tom and Emeril don their chef coats and take to the kitchen to lead teams in an epic Thanksgiving battle. Guest judge: Dana Cowin.

Butchery is king as two giant slabs of beef on meat hooks await the chefs for the Quickfire. For the Elimination, the Chefs go back in time as they're tasked with re-creating an original 1950's menu from one of the best restaurants in the country.

It’s holiday time in the Top Chef kitchen, and a twist in the Quickfire will test the cheftestants’ ability to share as they cook up dishes based on their family lineage.