Get to know all of the Top Chef Season 13 contestants.
Renee Kelly
Renee Kelly is a chef/owner of a restaurant in Meriam, Kansas, who originally went to school for premed.
Isaac Toups
Isaac Toups is a chef/owner in New Orleans, Louisiana, who loves making Cajun cuisine.
Frances Tariga-Weshnak
Frances Tariga-Weshnak is an executive sous chef in NYC who speaks six languages.
Wesley True
Wesley True is an executive chef living in Atlanta, Georgia, whose favorite dessert is pumpkin pie.
Garret Fleming
Garret Fleming is an executive chef in Washington, D.C. with a background in Italian, French and Baltic cuisine.
Kwame Onwuachi
Kwame Onwuachi is a chef/owner of a restaurant in Washington, D.C. and owned his own business at age 20.
Jeremy Ford
Jeremy Ford is an executive chef who worked in a French restaurant while speaking no French.
Angelina Bastidas
Angelina Bastidas is an executive chef from Miami, Florida, who learned how to cook from her grandmother.
Phillip Frankland Lee
Phillip Frankland Lee is a chef/owner of a restaurant in California who has appeared on Chopped and Cutthroat Kitchen.
Amar Santana
Amar Santana is an executive chef of a restaurant in California who migrated as a 10-year-old from the Dominican Republic.
Chad White
Chad White is a chef/owner at restaurants in California and Mexico who wants to create eclectic urban food.
Karen Akunowicz
Karen Akunowicz is a 2015 James Beard Award winner living in Massachusetts who calls herself a queer femme lady.
Giselle Wellman
Giselle Wellman is an executive chef in Southern California who was trained partially by chef Mario Batali.
Marjorie Meek-Bradley
Marjorie Meek-Bradley is an executive chef in Washington, D.C. who likes to cook with organic foods.
Jason Stratton
Jason Stratton is an executive chef from Washington state who has worked under several great chefs like Bruce Naftaly (Le Gourmand).
Carl Dooley
Carl Dooley is from Boston, Massachusetts, and is about to open his first restaurant.
Grayson Schmitz
Grayson Schmitz is a freelance chef living in New York City who is back for her second shot at Top Chef.
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