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Filming a season of Bravo's Top Chef is never an easy task, but Flavour xviii provided its own set of challenges as it took place last fall amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Variety recently took readers behind the scenes of filming Top Chef Season xviii in Portland, Oregon and noted many of the protocols that were put in identify to ensure anybody involved in the production remained safe.

In the past, nosotros have seen judges Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons share dishes the cheftestants prepared during Quickfire and elimination challenges. Still, that is one matter we definitely won't meet them practise in the new season. "We do not share plates atall this season," Padma told Variety.

In addition to the judges being kept six feet apart at a new U-shaped Judges' Table, Padma also noted to the publication that because the gear up had to be socially distant, "Sadly for me, during the Quickfires, I no longer get around the room to [the chefs'] stations."

Production besides upped sanitary protocols amongst the chefs, such as each contestant having their own private spice containers instead of sharing them. "They're definitely working cleaner and washing easily a lot more," showrunner Doneen Arquines told Diverseness. "Nosotros just have to make the time to exercise those things."

Departments were fifty-fifty broken up into split zones that worked at different times. "I'm really close to my culinary producer, Sandee Birdsong," Padma said of the Top Chef Flavour three contestant who has since go a producer on the show. "I'm non immune to hang out with her! I talk to her on the phone, and I wave to her across the gear up."

The judges flew into Portland privately and lived in Airbnbs with COVID testing done every other twenty-four hour period, co-ordinate to Variety. The cheftestants and crew lived in a bubble at a Portland hotel that had no other guests.

The pandemic also impacted the challenges for the season since inviting outside diners was not an option. Instead, the public was able to taste the cheftestants' nutrient through a socially afar bulldoze-in picture palace claiming. The chefs too got to give back, feeding hundreds of frontline workers.

The fan-favorite Restaurant Wars challenge had to be tweaked in the upcoming season too. This time, the chefs must execute a micro-restaurant concept with a cohesive seven-course tasting menu.

For the start time ever, Meridian Chef Flavour 18 will feature an aristocracy rotating judging and dining panel made upward of all-star winners, finalists, and favorites, including Richard Blais, Carrie Baird, Nina Compton, Tiffany Derry, Gregory Gourdet, Melissa King, Kristen Kish, Edward Lee, Kwame Onwuachi, Amar Santana, Dale Talde, and Brooke Williamson.

We'll besides encounter appearances by José Andrés, Massimo Bottura, Gabriel Rucker, and Alice Waters this season.Portlandia stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein as well stop past theMeridian Chef Kitchen for a Quickfire Claiming.

Padma applauded anybody involved in the product ofTop Chef for successfully filming Flavour xviii at a time when wildfires across Oregon as well presented its challenges. "Nosotros did it! Through COVID, fires and everything else. And information technology'due south a bang-up season! Thank you to my @bravotopchef coiffure for working so difficult to keep us all prophylactic. We got through it without anyone getting ill," Padma wrote in a post on Instagram on February 8. "We dearest you Portland and were so happy to shoot there in back up of the city and the BLM protesters for ceremonious rights."

Flavour eighteen kicks off with a new batch of 15 cheftestants vying for the coveted title of Top Chef in a supersized premiere episode on Thursday, April 1 at 8/7c. Last Chance Kitchen, which is hosted by Tom, also returns on Th, April 8 and volition follow Season 18's eliminated chefs equally they go head-to-caput to try to cook their manner back into the contest. The latest installment ofLast Adventure Kitchen will be available at the decision of each week's episode ofMeridian Chef on BravoTV.com, on demand, or wherever you streamTop Chef.

Go your first await at the new flavor of Tiptop Chef in the official trailer for Season eighteen, in a higher place.

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Source: https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/top-chef-season-18-filmed-portland-covid

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