Episode guide
Top Chef Masters: Season 2
10 episodes · premiered Apr 7, 2010
The second season of the American reality competition show Top Chef Masters was announced on October 22, 2009. In addition, it was announced that Gail Simmons would be added as a critic. The season premiered on April 7, 2010 with 22 world-renowned chefs competing against each other in weekly challenges. In the season finale that premiered on June 9, 2010, Marcus Samuelsson was crowned Top Chef Master.
- Episode 1: First Date Dinner Apr 7, 2010 The chefs are tasked with using aphrodisiac ingredients while creating dinners that would be appropriate for a first date.
- Episode 2: It's My Party Apr 14, 2010 The chefs cater a celebrity birthday party. This time it’s Mekhi Phifer and he’s requesting a soul food-themed feast for his birthday party. The chef’testants up to bat tonight are David…
- Episode 3: Pub Food Apr 21, 2010 Convincing high-brow clients of pub grub's merits is tonight's seemingly impossible challenge for the chefs as they try to show that flair and flavor can be found in other than haute…
- Episode 4: Cast and Crew Meal Apr 28, 2010 op Chef Masters Season Two there are only five chefs left to compete in the first level for the final two spots in the champion round. Susur Lee, Rick Tramanto, Maria Hines, Debbie Gold…
- Episode 5: Wedding Wars May 5, 2010 Top Chef's brutal tag team relay begins the first champions round Quickfire, followed by the dreaded wedding elimination challenge—the first time the master chefs have seen this particular…
- Episode 6: Scary Surf & Turf May 12, 2010 The chefs are asked to create Quickfire dishes inspired by Simpsons characters who then judge them, and then they must turn their skills toward making offal tasty in a surf & turf…
- Episode 7: Tailgating May 19, 2010 · 1h It's a Quickfire with a very specific focus: the leg. Once the chefs have butchered and prepared their dishes, they must then turn their skills to an even bigger challenge, preparing a…
- Episode 8: Food of the Gods May 26, 2010 · 1h The Masters are challenged to create a divine dish inspired by a Greek God. The blind taste test returns with the "Name That Ingredient" Quickfire, and then the chefs look to Greece and…
- Episode 9: Improv Jun 2, 2010 · 1h Taking inspiration from Top Chef Chicago's season four, the remaining chefs must use unusual pairings from Los Angeles' The Groundlings improv troupe to create dishes.
- Episode 10: Top Chef Master Jun 9, 2010 · 1h The remaining three chefs face their final challenge.