Denver chefs know their way around a kitchen, and many of them are quite comfortable in reality TV kitchens, too. Two others will join the ranks of celebrity chefs from this month with the airing of two cooking competition shows.
Byron Gomez, who helped Denver restaurant Bruto retain its Michelin star when the awards were announced Monday, is one of eight chefs who will cook in a new Food Network competition called “Last bite hotel,” premieres on Tuesday, September 24
The group is “invited to a remote hotel for a game of ingenuity and creativity,” according to the show’s media materials. “Each chef, who is tasked by the hotel manager to meet the culinary demands of the hotel’s VIP guests, is allowed to bring only 13 ingredients during their entire stay. Cooking skills won’t be enough to get them to the finish line, because ingenuity and calculated risks are needed to survive and cook another day.” The show is hosted by actor Tituss Burgess.
Gomez, who has cooked at Michelin-starred restaurants such as Café Boulud, Atera and Eleven Madison Park, appeared on “Top Chef: Portland” in 2021 and later moved to Colorado. In January he took over the reins at Bruto, which had won a Michelin star four months earlier.
The other Colorado chef who will become a star this month is Brandon Kerr, who helped open Stone Cellar Bistro, a fine-dining restaurant at 7605 Grandview Ave. in Arvada.
The restaurant revealed social media this week that Kerr was away from the kitchen there for a month while filming and competing on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ season 23, which debuts Thursday, September 26 on Fox.
Stone Cellar Bistro hosts viewing parties every Thursday while the show is on TV.
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