Draw Knives : A Top Chef Recap Podcast

A Double Elimination this week and our hosts have strong opinions about it! Nadia and Bernard dive into this pub-centric episode and don’t hold any punches back.

Nadia and Bernard break down episode 2 of the current season! They talk about unnecessarily complex Quickfire challenges, rice and the cheftestant that made the biggest impression this week.

Top Chef is back for Season 20 and they are going international! Top Chef: World All-Stars with 10 previous winners from around the world and 6 finalists, this is the most star-studded cast ever assembled. Superfans Nadia and Bernard are back to recap every episode this season. This week they talk about the first episode and do their fantasy draft. Join us for this supersized ep!

Good vibes all around in this recap of the Top Chef Season 19 finale. Nadia and Bernard close out the season talking about Buddha's dominant finale meal, Damarr's Fan Favorite victory and make a promise to come back to recap Season 20!

The penultimate episode of Top Chef Season 19 has our hosts talking about the origin of the chimichanga, carne seca, and the Sonoran Desert. As the final four chefs get whittled down to three, Nadia and Bernard weigh in on who they think will win as the cheftestants quickly approach the finale.

The end of Top Chef Season 19 is coming fast! The five remaining cheftestants have to fish and cook their way to the Top 4. Nadia and Bernard break down this week's Elimination Challenge and talk about how difficult it is to present food after Buddha, Sarah's awesome win, and our hosts say goodbye to their Fan Favorite.

Seafood is in abundance in this week's episode! Nadia and Bernard talk about their love of seafood towers, plating issues of family style meals and how using the word "inspired" in a dish description is a double edged sword.

Fajitas and Astronaut food take center stage on this Top Chef episode. Nadia and Bernard break it all down including praise for Chef Nick's growing "baking" skills, questions about Jae's meat cutting technique and whether rice should count as a crumb.

Nadia and Bernard break down this episode that features monochromatic vegetable dishes, an inspiring Elimination Challenge set in Houston's beautiful Freedman's Town and the elimination that our hosts have been predicting for weeks now.

Top Chef Season 19 cheftestant Nick Wallace drops by to talk about early food memories of his grandmother, his 26 Spice Mix and which cheftestant gave him the nickname "The Baker."

It's Bernard's least favorite week on Top Chef: Restaurant Wars! Bernard and Nadia breaks down this episode that sees our hosts say goodbye to one of their favorite Season 19 cheftestants. (Also this episode begins with a love letter to the soon-to-be-completed tv show Better Things and creator Pamela Adlon.)

Nadia and Bernard dive right in on this episode that features Nigerian swallows, a Jurassic Park themed Elimination Challenge, and Tom Colicchio's weird desire for dinosaur themed gore on dishes.

Season 19 cheftestant Jackson Kalb drops by to talk about the start of his culinary career, how he met his wife and tells us his go to beer. **Special Note: This episode contains colorful language.**

Nadia and Bernard breaks down a wild episode that features the Last Chance Kitchen part 1 winner returning, forced product placement and a tricky Elimination Challenge.

Top Chef Season 19 Cheftestant Sam Kang drops by The Draw Knives Podcast in this bonus episode! Sam reflects on his Top Chef experience, shares his feelings about Family Meal and talks about a new project he's working on.

You don't mess with Texas! But Top Chef decided to mess with a revered Texas tradition in this week's episode: barbecue . This week Nadia and Bernard reminisce about Harry & Ida's pastrami sandwich, Texas Toast, and who they feel might be going home next.

Top Chef decides to throw the first double elimination episode of the season at us and Nadia and Bernard are here to break it down! Bernard and Nadia talk about biscuits, reminisce about WD-50 and finally get to use the word "tweezer-y".

This week’s episode is a wild one . Top Chef creates an homage to Asian Night Markets in and Nadia’s top fantasy pick gets eliminated in a stunning turn of events. How is Nadia processing this? Listen to find out!

Week 2 of Top Chef means a supersized episode for Draw Knives listeners and Nadia and Bernard do their Season 19 Fantasy Draft! Nadia has the first pick. Who will she pick? Listen to find out!

The Draw Knives Podcast  is back with a new Top Chef season to recap! Get excited as Bernard and new co-host Nadia break down the first ep of Top Chef Season 19, geek out over Kristen Kish’s hair and explain why team challenges make zero sense as an initial Quickfire.

It's finally here! The season finale episode Draw Knives...and Top Chef. What a ride it was! TOP CHEF for the EMMY!!!

Join Matt and Bernard for this week's penultimate episode! Who will win no one knows...and that is thrilling!

Join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 12...things get spicy on the podcast as we near the end of the season.

This week, join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 11 and discuss who they think could win it all! (and then get side tracked and talk about speech and debate for five minutes)

Join Matt and Bernard as they recap episode 10 and talk all things tofu and discuss how Matt has essentially won this year's draft.