Graham Elliot Biography

Graham Elliot is an award-winning chef restaurateur television personality and cookbook author. He is a judge on Bravo's Top Chef.
In 2016 after 10 seasons with the MasterChef and MasterChef Jr. franchise Chef Elliot left the show to join Bravo’s Emmy Award winning hit cooking competitions Top Chef as a full-time judge. In 2019 Graham joined Ayesha Curry and Cat Cora in a new family driven competition series on ABC Family Food Fight.
Elliot a self-proclaimed Navy brat who has traveled the world and all fifty US states has accrued many prestigious accolades including multiple James Beard Foundation Nominations. At age 27 Elliot became the youngest four-star chef to be named in any major U.S. city and was named one of Food & Wine magazine’s “Best New Chefs” in 2004. In May of 2008 Elliot opened his eponymous restaurant Graham Elliot which went on to become one of only 15 restaurants in the U.S. to be awarded two Michelin stars.
Along with regular TV appearances on Good Morning America Access Hollywood The Today Show and Nightline Elliot runs the eponymously named Graham Elliot Bistro in his hometown of Chicago. Elliot sees the restaurant as an extension of his passionate personality embodying his core belief that cooking is an artistic creative outlet. The spot opened its doors in 2008 immediately hypnotizing the city garnering Michelin stars in both 2011 and 2012 and a visit from President Obama.

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