Thomas Patrick Colicchio is an American famous chef who was born in the United States on August 15, 1962, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is a well-known figure who is most recognized for co-founding New York City’s Gramercy Tavern. Crafted Hospitality is his company’s co-founder. Tom Colicchio is one of the most original and resourceful chefs you will ever meet.

Because of his skill in the field, he has served as a judge on reality shows such as “Top Chef” and “Best New Restaurant,” among others. Aside from having all of these Guest accolades, he has served as a judge on several of the most popular shows.

Tom Colicchio TV show: Top Chef and Best New Restaurant

The television show known as Top Chef since its beginning in the year 2006 featured the likes of prominent personalities like Tom Colicchio himself as judge among other head judges. Tom Colicchio was known to be the main consulting producer on the show Bravo Top Chef’s spin-off series.

It will interest you to know that Tom was crowned with an Emmy Award in the year 2010 for being the outstanding Reality-Competition Programming as the executive producer of Top Chef. The award was rightly deserved.

Aside from the show he also established a podcast in the year June 2020 which he used to deal with issues regarding food, politics, and citizenry.