Tom Colicchio
Tom Colicchio was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States on August 15th, 1962 and is the Chef. At the age of 61, Tom Colicchio biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
Colicchio, a teen in the mid-1980s, served as a sous-chef to Thomas Keller at Rakel as a sous chef.
Colicchio and his partner Danny Meyer opened the Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood in July 1994. In 2003 and 2005, it was named the Most Popular Restaurant in New York City by the Zagat Survey. He left the restaurant in 2006 and is no longer associated with it. In spring 2001, he opened the first Craft restaurant one block south of Gramercy Tavern. He opened the first Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas a year ago. He started his first 'wichcraft,' his sandwich shop, in 2003. He founded Colicchio & Sons in 2010 and then Riverpark. Colicchio volunteered to rescue workers at Ground Zero shortly after the September 11 attacks.
The James Beard Foundation's 2010 Outstanding Chef Award was given to Colicchio.
Colicchio has written three cookbooks. Jeff Bridges and Raj Patel appeared in the documentary film A Place at the Table, which was released in the United States on March 1, 2013. Lori Silverbush's wife directed the film. He is also the Executive Producer of A Place At The Table.
Colicchio is a member of the Food Council and the Culinary Council at Food Bank for New York City, two hunger-relief groups.
Colicchio has been involved with Top Chef since 2006, where he has served as the head judge. He is also the leading consultant on Bravo's Top Chef spin-off series Top Chef Masters. In addition, he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Computing as an executive producer of Top Chef, which he also includes.
In 2015, Colicchio hosted the reality show Best New Restaurant (an extension of Ramsay's Best Restaurant) in the United Kingdom.
Colicchio appeared as himself in the fifth episode of HBO's Treme's first season as a team of chefs Eric Ripert, David Chang, and Wylie Dufresne. He appeared in Season 2 alongside Ripert for his second time. In 2011, he made cameos in the Simpsons' premiere episode, "The Falcon and the D'ohman," and The Smurfs. Colicchio appeared as a chef in the tenth episode of Billions' fifth season (TV Series).
Colicchio's podcast, "Citizen Chef" was released on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network in June 2020. The seasonal collection explores topics such as diet, politics, policy, and citizenship.