Top Chef season 6 "Top Chef: Las Vegas" premieres Wednesday, August 26th @10/9c on Bravo.

Once the bastion of crusty, scrambled egg buffets, Las Vegas is now considered a great culinary destination.  This season in Vegas captures Sin City's high stakes and high rollers in addition to the top names in food, movies and entertainment including Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Natalie Portman, Daniel Boulud, Penn & Teller, Hubert Keller, Laurent Tourondel, Tim Love, Michelle Bernstein, Tyler Florence, Charlie Palmer, Paul Bartolotta, Nigella Lawson and Jerome Bocuse will be featured this season on "Top Chef: Las Vegas."

The sixth season of the No. 1 food show on cable, Bravo's Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series returns with "Top Chef: Las Vegas," premiering Wednesday, August 26 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

The 17 new chef'testants even has a set of brothers competing against each other. 

Culinary siren Padma Lakshmi presides over the judge's table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, renowned culinary figure and chef/owner Craft Restaurants, and judges Gail Simmons, of Food & Wine magazine and Toby Young, food critic and best-selling author of the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. 
 
"Las Vegas has become a culinary destination ?V some of the world's best chefs and restaurants are here ?V so it's only fitting that our newest season was the best yet," said Colicchio. "You'll be surprised by the quality of chef'testants we discovered this season. They really raised the bar."

The Premise:

The 17 "Top Chef: Las Vegas" chef'testants will be whittled down week by week as they compete to outshine their competition.  The winning chef will receive $100,000 furnished by the makers of the Glad family of products, $100,000 of merchandise provided by Macy's, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, a showcase at the Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and will earn the title of "Top Chef." The M Resort Spa & Casino served as the production location for "Top Chef: Las Vegas."