Top Chef Second Helping (Season 3, Episode 11)
TV-14
TV Episode | 45 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV

Top Chef

Second Helping (Season 3, Episode 11)

TV-14

TV Episode | 45 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV

This episode could also be called "Restaurant Wars: Part 2." After unsatisfactory results in the previous episode, the two teams are given a second chance to impress a dining room full of guests at their respective restaurants. The team ...See moreThis episode could also be called "Restaurant Wars: Part 2." After unsatisfactory results in the previous episode, the two teams are given a second chance to impress a dining room full of guests at their respective restaurants. The team who wins the Quickfire Challenge (in which the teams are pitted against one another in a contest of kitchen athleticism) is granted the services of guest sommelier Stephen Asprinio, a contestant from the first season of Top Chef. In the Elimination Challenge, the restaurants go head-to-head to see who will be sent home. See less

Producer

Joy Rillo Hryniewicz (as Joy Rillo)

Composers

Gregory Butler (co-composer) | Aaron Kaplan | Biff Sanders (original theme) (as Harold Barefoot Sanders III)

Cinematographer

Paul Starkman

Editors

Kevin Leffler | Brian Ray | Brad Schwartz

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Edit Released

Updated Aug 22, 2007

Release date

Aug 22, 2007 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 5 wins & 105 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
18 cast members

Name	Known for
Padma Lakshmi Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Tom Colicchio Self - Head Judge Self - Head Judge See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Ted Allen Self - Judge Self - Judge See fewer	Queer Eye (2003)
Christopher Ciccone Self - Interior Designer Self - Interior Designer See fewer	Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
Hung Hyunh Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Chris Jacobson Self - Contestant (as CJ Jacobson) Self - Contestant (as CJ Jacobson) See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Howie Kleinberg Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Dale Levitsky Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Sara Mair Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Brian Malarkey Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Tournament of Champions (2020)
Casey Thompson Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef Jr (2017)
Tre Wilcox Self - Contestant Self - Contestant See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Geoffrey Zakarian Self - Guest Judge Self - Guest Judge See fewer	The Great American Foodathon (2020)
Stephen Asprinio Self - Sommelier (uncredited) Self - Sommelier (uncredited) See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Lia Bardeen Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) See fewer	Top Chef (2006)
Camille Becerra Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) See fewer	Dog Food (2014)
Sara Nguyen Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) See fewer	Mr.I-Love-You (2013)
Joey Paulino Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) Self - Guest Diner (uncredited) See fewer	Top Chef (2006)