Dale Levitski is an American chef and television personality. He is a former
Top Chef
''Top Chef'' is an American reality competition television series which premiered on Bravo in March 2006. The show features chefs competing against each other in culinary challenges. The contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs ...
television series alum.
Career
Television
Dale Levitski competed on
Top Chef season 3. After having been one of the runners-up to
Hung Huynh
Hung Huynh (born January 25, 1978) is a Vietnamese-born American chef, best known as the winner of the third season of ''Top Chef'', a reality cooking competition series on Bravo. He was the Executive Chef at Catch, The General, and Catch Miami. ...
(along with
Casey Thompson
Casey Thompson (born October 3, 1998) is an American college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners. He previously played for Texas, Nebraska, and Florida Atlantic.
Early life
Thompson played his first three years of high school footba ...
), Levitski was invited to compete again on
Top Chef season 8 among the All-Stars. He was eliminated in the third episode.
Chicago
After leaving the TV show, it took Levitski 18 months to get going on his next project. He rebounded to open Sprout in 2009, garnering praise, three stars from the Chicago Tribune, and a semifinalist nod from the James Beard Foundation for Best Chef: Midwest, something that might be considered a coup considering the glut of competition in the brutally tough Chicago-centric category."
A year after Sprout opened, the restaurant received a three star rating from the Chicago Tribune and also was named by Chicago Magazine as a Best Restaurant. Levitski also opened a bistro called Frog n' Snail. Levitski started to have failing health due to the stress of the two restaurants. He decided to leave Chicago, and the two restaurants closed after his departure.
Nashville
In 2014 Levitski moved from Chicago to Nashville, Tennessee, and opened a new restaurant called Sinema in the old Melrose Theater.
He left the project in 2016.
References
External links
Two-Bite Interview: Top Chef’s gay cheftestant, Dale Levitski
* ttp://www.edgeboston.com/?104444 Meet the (Gay) Top Chef Masters
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Living people
Chefs from Chicago
American chefs
American television chefs
American gay men
American LGBTQ broadcasters
LGBTQ chefs
LGBTQ people from Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American LGBTQ people