Episode guide
Top Chef: Texas
18 episodes · premiered Nov 1, 2011
This season introduces a new competition to the series; in addition to the Quickfire and Elimination Challenges featured in televised episodes, the "Last Chance Kitchen" competition allowed eliminated contestants to compete head-to-head in a series of webisodes, with the winner eventually returning to the main competition. The webisodes are available on Bravo's website.
- Episode 1: Everything's Bigger in Texas Nov 2, 2011 · 42m 29 chefs gather at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, to compete for 16 slots in the 9th season of Top Chef. Tonight they are divided into three groups and must master their challenge to…
- Episode 2: The Heat Is On Nov 9, 2011 · 42m Night two of heats for the coveted contestant spots starts with 10 competitors, 10 ingredients, and only five chef coats left. Once again, those who excel in the challenge get a coat…
- Episode 3: Quinceanera Nov 16, 2011 · 42m The chefs are asked to create a dish using rattlesnakes. Later they cater a girl's quinceañera celebration.
- Episode 4: Red Hot Chili Cook Off Nov 23, 2011 · 42m The contestants provide food for the local rodeo and its audience.
- Episode 5: Don't Be Tardy for the Dinner Party Nov 30, 2011 · 42m The chefs must create a dish using what they can find in a standard survival kit, then they have to shift gears and cater dinner to high society.
- Episode 6: Higher Steaks Dec 7, 2011 · 42m The contestants prepare steak for some of Texas' most discerning palates, at least beef-wise, the attendees of the Cattle Baron's Ball.
- Episode 7: Game On Dec 14, 2011 · 42m The contestants must cook for an all-star table of chefs whose avocation is hunting.
- Episode 8: Tribute Dinner Dec 21, 2011 · 42m The chefs must adapt quickly when their cooking mashes up with social networking and they begin receiving dish notes via Twitter. Later, they will each be able to pay homage to an…
- Episode 9: BBQ Pit Wars Jan 4, 2012 · 42m The chefs combine learning with cooking tonight when they use Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine to influence their Quickfire dishes. Next, they team up for a barbecue cook-off where the…
- Episode 10: Restaurant Wars Jan 11, 2012 · 42m The still-standing chefs sharpen their knives for the time-honored fan-favorite "Restaurant Wars" test. The all-encompassing culinary challenge tasks them to create an eatery, from its…
- Episode 11: Fit For an Evil Queen Jan 18, 2012 · 42m The Quickfire is on the move, except it's the ingredients that are moving—by train. Next, the chefs must access the darkness inside of them when they are asked to create "evil" on a plate.
- Episode 12: Block Party Jan 25, 2012 · 42m The chefs race against time to finish prep work for a meal. Later, they serve up cuisine at a food-drive block party. Guest judge: Cat Cora.
- Episode 13: Bike, Borrow & Steal Feb 1, 2012 · 42m In this week’s Quickfire, Pee-wee Herman stops by and the chefs are tasked to create his favorite breakfast dish – pancakes! But this isn’t any old pancake. The Chefs are challenged to be…
- Episode 14: Mentors Feb 8, 2012 · 42m In this week’s Quickfire, the chefs must use their sense of touch, smell and taste to navigate through the pantry to gather ingredients for a dish while blindfolded. In a twist, the…
- Episode 15: Culinary Games Feb 15, 2012 · 42m The final 4 chefs arrive in Whistler, British Columbia, for a Top Chef twist on the Olympic games. From cooking on the world’s fastest gondola to a biathlon that requires marksman like…
- Episode 16: Fire and Ice Feb 22, 2012 · 42m Asian Masters lend a hand in a tag-team-style Quickfire. The final 3 chefs must create a dish and cocktail that fuses the concept of fire and ice into one cohesive dish, a culinary…
- Episode 17: Finale Feb 29, 2012 · 42m For the final challenge, each chef will take over a restaurant in Vancouver where they will have the chance to design a four-course meal for the judges and unbeknownst to them, friends and…
- Episode 18: Reunion Mar 7, 2012 · 42m