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Chef Ed Cotton Watches as Top Chef Crowns a Season 8 Winner
Oh, Top Chef…parting is such sweet sorrow. We’re glad that Richard Blais took the title, but we’re sad to see the season come to a close. Thanks to Ed Cotton for indulging our questions, serious and silly, along the way. And, on behalf of everyone at OpenTable, we’ve got a special good wishes for Ed. [...]
Who Failed This Week’s Top Chef Test? Chef Ed Cotton Walks Us Through the Ep
With just two eps left, Top Chef is getting more and more contentious. Chef Ed Cotton of Manhattan’s Plein Sud reflects on this week’s challenges and eliminations and looks ahead to what’s in store for the competitors. When someone exits, how hard is that for their co-competitors, emotionally and missing their presence in the apt? [...]
Ed Cotton Talks Top Chef: Fryer Fires, Pork Sashimi + Kenny Gilbert Grudge Match
Tick tock. Tick tock. The clock is winding down in this season of Top Chef. We talked to Plein Sud Executive Chef (and former Top Chef finalist) Ed Cotton once again about all the goings on in last week’s episode of everyone’s favorite cooking competition. Ed, in a QFC such as this, who would you [...]
Southern Discomfort: Chef Ed Cotton Recaps Top Chef All Stars Episode 11
Stepping away from his kitchen at Manhattan’s Plein Sud restaurant, Executive Chef Ed Cotton, a season 7 Top Chef finalist, sheds some light on the action during last night’s episode of Top Chef All Stars. I saw your Facebook photo of the cassoulet from Plein Sud a few days ago. Love this! I make a [...]
Top Chef Season 8 Episode 6: Catch and Release
Last night’s episode of Top Chef lacked a QFC — but it did deliver a double elimination. We checked in with Ed Cotton, Executive Chef at Plein Sud and one-time bee in Angelo’s bonnet, for his thoughts on what proved to be the deadliest catch for two cheftestants. Thinking back to last week’s EC and [...]
Top Chef Season 8 Episode 5: Taken Down in Chinatown
In the most entertaining ep yet of this season’s Top Chef, the competitors take on Tom Colicchio in the Quick Fire Challenge and get a bit of Shanghai surprise down in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Ed Cotton, a season 7 finalist and executive chef at Plein Sud, weighs in on Tom Colicchio and dim sum. The QFC [...]
Top Chef Season 8 Episode 4: Advantage, Angelo?
Just in time for the holidays, Chef Ed Cotton returns from a secret mission to weigh in on the most recent episode of Top Chef All Stars and a few of the eliminations that happened in his absence. Welcome back, Ed! Are you shocked that we lost Jen and Dale L. (and Stephen — no [...]
Top Chef Season 8 Episode 1: Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’…
Plein Sud Executive Chef Ed Cotton, a Top Chef finalist on season 7, sits down with us to discuss the first episode of what’s sure to be an uber-competitive season of Top Chef Season 8: All Stars. Ed, what would make someone want to go back and go through this all again? Are y’all chefs [...]
Meet Chef Ed Cotton, Our New ‘Top Chef All-Stars’ Viewing Partner
The latest incarnation of Top Chef includes an all-star cast of former cheftestants. So, we thought it only fitting to watch along each week with someone with intimate knowledge of the show and some of the contenders. Enter Ed Cotton, Executive Chef of New York’s Plein Sud, a restaurant located in the chic Smyth Hotel [...]