In the past year she’s closed Little Goat Diner in Chicago’s West Loop and is moving it to Southport Avenue in the city. Last year she opened her pandemic-delayed Girl and the Goat in Downtown Los Angeles and has also brought her Peruvian restaurant Cabra to the city as well. In 2019 at Chicago’s new Hoxton Hotel she opened her Peruvian-influenced Cabra, and in 2020 she opened Sugargoat bakery and expanded her offering with meal kits delivered nationwide through Goldbelly. Soon after she opened the Little Goat Diner and her Chinese restaurant Duck Duck Goat. In 2010, she opened the perpetually packed Girl & the Goat, where she serves delicious, creative and globally inspired dishes such as wood oven roasted pig face, grilled butter chicken and duck tartare. Since then, she’s gone on to build an empire in Chicago’s thriving West Loop restaurant scene.

Izard won the season held in her own backyard of the Windy City, defeating Richard Blais in the finale. Before they crown that champion, take a look back at what the previous 19 winners have achieved.

Of course, he couldn’t stay away for long, as he immediately returned to compete in season 20, where an all-star collection of past cheftestants from around the world are competing in London. Buddha Lo of Huso in New York City emerged as the champion with an almost old school-style of fine dining finesse to his cooking and plating.

Precautions were definitely taken, but the season didn’t feel as claustrophobic, because the cheftestants were able to interact with the city there were in. Unlike other cooking shows where you may see home cooks try to make opulent desserts, precocious child chefs get yelled at by Gordon Ramsay or industry pros forced to cook a meal from baskets filled with marmite and goat’s brains, the Emmy Award winning Top Chef is actually trying to suss out who is a great chef.Īfter a season in the middle of the pandemic, where before vaccines were available the hosts, cheftestants, crew, and rotating panel of guests judges bubbled together in Portland, Ore., the 19th season felt much more back to normal in Houston.

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