Here Are All the Chefs Competing on 'Top Chef' Season 18 in Portland

家town:Columbus, OH
当前的居住城市:Columbus, OH
Occupation/Profession:Executive Chef & GM, Service Bar

Avishar Baruais the Executive Chef and General Manager of Service Bar in Columbus, Ohio. Born in Columbus, Ohio to immigrant parents who left Bangladesh in search of better opportunities in America, Avishar pursued his true passion of cooking after getting bachelor's degrees in biology and psychology at The Ohio State University. After attending culinary school, he went to New York City and trained under Wylie Dufresne at Michelin starred WD~50. He returned to Ohio to open Service Bar for Middle West Spirits, a local grain to glass distiller, where he has since gained national recognition fromFood & WineMagazine for his signature dish, theCheesy Brisket Crunch。

家town:德克萨斯州埃尔帕索
当前的居住城市:Austin, TX
Occupation/Profession:Chef

Chef Gabe Erales was born and raised in the culturally rich border town of El Paso, TX. Heavily influenced by his family's Mexican culture, Gabe formed an early appreciation for the food his parents prepared which ignited his passion for cooking. Gabe began working in kitchens at the age of 15 before moving to Austin, TX, to attend college at the University of Texas where he graduated with both a bachelor's and master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. During this time, Gabe realized his true calling remained in the kitchen and concurrently completed culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu Austin. As the soul of his cooking lies in Mexican cuisine, he spent time working for some of Austin's most notable chefs such as the late Miguel Ravago at The Fonda San Miguel, Rene Ortiz at La Condesa and Jesse Griffiths of Dai Due. He also draws inspiration from his experience in the kitchen at Noma in both Copenhagen and Mexico. Gabe's cooking philosophy strives to focus on locality through strength in relationships with local farmers including sourcing unique varieties of landrace corn, chiles, and other ingredients from different regions of Mexico. Most recently, he担任喜剧餐厅的行政总厨, a Mexican restaurant in the heart of downtown Austin, TX, that was voted Best New Restaurant byEsquire Magazine（2019），Austin Monthly（2019），andTexas Monthly（2020）。与四个孩子结婚，他目前正在研究一个新的餐厅概念，他希望很快宣布。

家town:Central Islip, Long Island
当前的居住城市:Aspen, CO
Occupation/Profession:Executive Chef at 7908

Born in Costa Rica but raised in New York, chef Byron Gomez is the Executive Chef of 7908, Aspen's finest supper club. Bryon has trained and worked at some of the most prestigious restaurants in Manhattan, under the best chefs and mentors in the industry including Daniel Boulud, Gavin Kaysen, Daniel Humm, and Ronny Emborg. Despite not having any formal training, he worked hard to be self-taught, advancing his way through the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants, Café Boulud, Atera, and Eleven Madison Park. As Sous Chef at EMP, the restaurant won Top Restaurant in the World by S. Pellegrino. He later traveled with the Eleven Madison Park teams to their pop-up restaurants in the Hamptons and Aspen, before deciding to settle down in the Rocky Mountains. Byron enjoys seasonal activities such as cycling, snowboarding and surfing, but his favorite activity is to cook and break bread, especially on his days off.

家town:伊利诺伊州芝加哥
当前的居住城市:Birmingham, Alabama
Occupation/Profession:Chef/Artist/Father

Roscoe Hall不仅是厨师，而且是在各种媒体上工作的有成就的艺术家。他很小的时候就被介绍给美食，并立即想进入厨房。他最初是在一家当地一家小餐厅做洗碗机的，直到他在Chez Panisse担任厨师的工作，在爱丽丝·沃特斯（Alice Waters）在那里训练了两年。然后，他在圣路易斯和波特兰的多家餐馆学习各种美食的烹饪级别，然后前往纽约市在Momofuku Saam Bar的厨师David Chang的带领下工作。后来他搬到了阿拉巴马州伯明翰，并担任了罗德尼·斯科特（Rodney Scott）的烧烤的行政总厨。罗斯科（Roscoe）有了一个踢屁股的妻子和两个热闹的孩子，最近担任邮局烹饪总监的新角色，并正在为他的最新艺术展览。

家town:Detroit, MI
当前的居住城市:Detroit, MI
Occupation/Profession:Chef / Consultant

底特律本地人基基·卢亚（Kiki Louya）是厨师，作家，食品活动家和餐厅顾问。亚搏电竞The New York Times由于她追求社会正义，使用当地农业以及在她的餐馆为公平的工资而战，因此将她命名为“ 1亚搏电竞6名黑人厨师改变美国的食物”之一。奇基因其工作而受到了好评底特律民间和农民的厨师/所有者, two award winning restaurants, before eventually stepping down from leadership in March 2020. The daughter of a Congolese immigrant, Kiki draws inspiration from her own cultural background, often using food as a conduit for deeper discussions around what it means to be Black in America. She is a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, as well as The University of Michigan, and has given lectures about her expertise on food, farming and entrepreneurship with students at Yale and Georgetown. When not in the kitchen, Kiki is tending to her wild vegetable garden alongside her husband and two rambunctious rescue pit bulls.

家town:Tokyo, Japan & Seattle, WA
当前的居住城市:Seattle, WA
Occupation/Profession:厨师/所有者，塔

Born in Japan and raised in Seattle, Shota Nakajima began his culinary journey at age 16 working for a highly acclaimed sushi restaurant. At age 18 he moved to Osaka, Japan to learn the art of Japanese cuisine from Michelin Star-rated Chef Yasuhiko Sakamoto, an experience that greatly changed Shota's perspective on hospitality, cooking and his approach to food. Developing his own meticulous and imaginative culinary detail, and a stringent demand for high-quality, Shota set out to expand Japanese cuisine in the United States by bringing a fresh perspective on approachableJapanese comfort food through his two restaurants, Taku and Adana。A James Beard Award semi-finalist for three years running, Shota seizes every opportunity to get outside and forage or fish, taking advantage of the abundance of wild goods in Washington's mountains and waters.

家town:Stockton, CA
当前的居住城市:Las Vegas, NV
Occupation/Profession:厨师/所有者，黑羊

杰米·特兰（Jamie Tran）是Las Vegas' The Black Sheep,where she serves her original take on casual modern Vietnamese American food in an elevated neighborhood environment. The name is an homage to Jamie's playfully rebellious spirit and her drive to break through a male-dominated industry.

杰米（Jamie）的烹饪之旅始于她四岁。她让自己的第一道菜站在牛奶箱上，与母亲一起煮炒饭。从旧金山州立大学获得商业学位，然后是Le Cordon Bleu毕业后，杰米（Jamie）在拉斯维加斯（Las Vegas）看到了新兴的美食现场，并搬到那里，在查理·帕尔默（Charlie Palmer）的Aureole兼职。亚搏电竞她在行政总厨Vincent Pouessel的带领下磨练了自己的手艺，并将其登上行政厨师。然后，她去了威尼斯人的宴会部门，然后被丹尼尔·布鲁德（Daniel Boulud）招募在DB Brasserie担任行政总厨。在打开黑羊之后，Eater Las Vegas与年度最佳厨师和年度餐厅一起向Jamie致敬。