Episode
Top Chef: Super Bowl Chef Showdown
Overview
A Super Bowl cook-off against seven all-stars from previous seasons.
Details
- Series
- Top Chef
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2009-01-28
- Runtime
- 55 min
Episode context
Super Bowl Chef Showdown is Episode 10 in New York of Top Chef. It aired on 2009-01-28. The runtime is 55 min.
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