“Top Chef: The Tour,” a 21-city tour — which trots out recent and past chef'testants from town-to-town crammed inside the trailer of a semi truck like animals in a traveling circus (actually, I'm sure they'll be put up in posh hotels and stuff…but wouldn't it be funny?) — will stop at Irvine Spectrum Center on June 17.
Best of all: it's free.
Here's some info straight from the press release:
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“This year's tour will feature an updated, restaurant-style format with table seating for 64 guests, bringing fans a fuller, more enjoyable culinary experience as they interact with their favorite chef'testants.”
Translation: Free food! And they won't arrest you for touching them.
“Guests will compete for a chance to win prizes by testing their senses and food knowledge in a series of smell-tests as they attempt to identify the correct scent in the quickest amount of time.”
Translation: Audience humiliation for sponsor swag!
“To sign up for free admission and learn more about “Top Chef: The Tour,” visit www.bravotv.com/thetour.”
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.