Top Chef Canada Set To Premiere April 11th

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Top Chef Canada will premiere tonight on Food Network Canada at 9:00 pm ET.  The series will feature 16 chefs from across Canada as they battle for Canadian culinary supremacy, and a chance to win a $100,000 cash prize, along with $30,000 in high-end kitchen appliances.

Canadian chef and restaurant entrepreneur Mark McEwan, and television personality Thea Andrews will serve as the show's hosts, while Shereen Arazm, a business partner of the Dolce Group in Los Angeles, will be the show's Resident Judge.

Six Toronto-based chefs will compete in the series: Dustin Gallagher, currently the Executive Chef at Grace; Steve Gonzalez - Chef de Cuisine at Claudio Aprile's newest venture Origin; Chris Kanka, a former Toronto Star Eater's Choice Award-winning chef who is currently working on opening a restaurant in the Durham Region of Ontario; Andrea Nicholson - Executive Chef and Director of Great Cooks Culinary Centre; Rob Rossi - Executive Chef of the Mercatto Group of Restaurants; and Patrick Wiese - a Chicago-born Toronto chef formerly of Fuzion Restaurant, who currently serves as a private chef for one of the country's top investment bankers.

For complete bios on all 16 Chefs, and for more series information, click HERE

-Turnbull