Magical Elves, the production company behind Top Chef, held its first Washington casting call this morning at the Occidental Grille. The company is currently casting for the next season of the Bravo TV show as well as its pastry-focused spinoff, Top Chef: Just Desserts. With three local contestants on the current season of the show, we were expecting to see a mob of chefs lined up outside the restaurant as early as 9 this morning—casting ran from 10 to 2—but we found only a handful of hopefuls, mostly from outside the Washington area. We chatted with a few of the wannabe cheftestants.
Uh, it seems like you missed a lot of (all of) the Washington chefs that were there. The Post has a writeup quoting several DC chefs who applied, and you have two from Richmond and one from WV? Did someone rush out of there a bit too quickly?
Posted by: Oops, Nov 05, 2009 10:28:44 AM
I had heard the local representation was light. Wonder why that is? Could the time commitment be too much for most chefs?
I’m not gonna lie, I get really excited to cheer for our local chefs when they’re on the show. Was pretty upset Mike got the boot on the current season. Specially considering he’s clearly better than others still on the show.
Posted by: DC, Nov 05, 2009 08:38:40 AM
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