What’s Cookin’: Stars of Top Chef Where Are They Now?

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Season 1: Brian Hill

His downfall in the inaugural season of the show in San Francisco: octopus and monkfish.

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Season 1: Brian Hill

Where He's Cooking Now: All over the place: Having cooked for the likes of Eddie Murphy, Mary J. Blige, and Mariah Carey, Hill landed on the Food Network show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. And last year he started Chef Brian's Comfort Truck. You can see him more recently on the occasional episode of Spike TV's new Bar Rescue (he helped turn Philadelphia's Swanky Bubbles into Sheer).

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Season 2: Sam Talbot

Won the Los Angeles show’s “Fan Favorite.”

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Season 2: Sam Talbot

Where He’s Cooking Now: Talbot's bringing a sustainable-seafood concept to the just-opened Imperial No. 9 restaurant in the new Mondrian SoHo hotel in New York City. The bar and many of its 180 seats are inside a planted greenhouse.

Season 3: Howie Kleinberg

Eliminated from Top Chef: Miami after refusing to serve a dish he deemed to be subpar.

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Season 3: Howie Kleinberg

Where He's Cooking Now: Two years after his Top Chef gig, Kleinberg launched Bulldog Barbecue in his hometown of Miami and just opened Bulldog Burger next door.

Season 5 Top Chef contestant Jeff McInnis

Season 5: Jeff McInnis

Lost the Super Bowl chef showdown in episode 10 of Top Chef: New York, got a second chance, but lost again in the first round of the New Orleans finale.

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Season 5: Jeff McInnis

Where He's Cooking Now: Having recently left his post as executive chef at the hot Miami restaurant Gigi, McInnis is working toward becoming a chef/partner at Yardbird, a Miami Beach restaurant slated to open this fall. Look for his soon-to-be-released cookbook, "The Natural Course."

Season 5: Carla Hall

Hall was a runner up in season five, but she won fan favorite when she competed in Top Chef: All Stars.

Season 5: Carla Hall

Post-Top Chef, Hall became a co-host of the food centric talk show The Chew.

Season 5: Fabio Viviani

Viviani was voted the fan favorite of season five and made it into the top four before he was eliminated.

Season 5: Fabio Viviani

Post-Top Chef, Viviani has had multiple endorsements, TV hosting gigs and many restaurants in several cities.

Season 6: Eli Kirshtein

His sausage-wrapped lamb loin didn’t make the cut in round 12 of Top Chef: Las Vegas.

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Season 6: Eli Kirshtein

Where He's Cooking Now: Kirshtein left Atlanta for a guest-chef gig at Midtown Manhattan kosher spot Solo, but is still working on finding a permanent home. (In April he did a two-week stint at Krish in Singapore.) But coolest of all? He makes a cameo in the comic book Spider-Man: A Meal to Die For (yes, you read that right!), available now.