Top Chef: Seattle Gets Premiere Date, Adds Wolfgang Puck as Judge

Season 10 of the Emmy award winning show will take place in Seattle

By Taryn Ryder Sep 19, 2012 9:48 PMTags
Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef SeattleMatthias Clamer/Bravo

Is that smoked salmon we smell? Because Top Chef is heading up to the Pacific Northwest!

Bravo just announced that Top Chef: Seattle will premiere Wednesday, Nov. 7 with famed chef Wolfgang Puck coming on board for season 10.

Puck joins returning judges Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Hugh Acheson and Emeril Lagasse, while the always lovely Padma Lakshmi comes back as host.

Meet your 21 contenders for Top Chef: Seattle right here:

Lizzie Binder, 37 – Napa, California
Tina Bourbeau, 42 – New York, New York
Chrissy Camba, 30 – Chicago, Illinois
Stephanie Cmar, 27 – Boston, Massachusetts
Micah Fields, 28 – Los Angeles, California
Eliza Gavin, 38 – Telluride, Colorado
Anthony Gray, 35 – Macon, Georgia
Jeffrey Jew, 34 – Washington, DC
Gina Keatley, 32 – New York, New York
Kristen Kish, 28 – Boston, Massachusetts
Danyele McPherson, 31 – Dallas, Texas
Daniel O'Brien, 32 – Washington, DC
Carla Pellegrino, 43 – Las Vegas, Nevada
Jorel Pierce, 28 – Denver, Colorado
Sheldon Simeon, 30 – Lahaina, Hawaii
John Tesar, 54 – Dallas, Texas
Joshua Valentine, 32 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Bart Vandaele, 41 – Washington, DC
Tyler Wiard, 41 – Denver, Colorado
Brooke Williamson, 33 – Los Angeles, California
Kuniko Yagi, 35 – Los Angeles, California

Will you be tuning into Top Chef: Seattle? The latest season of Bravo's Emmy Award-winning series kicks off November 7 at 10pm.