HOMETOWN: Chiang Mai, Thailand
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Bangkok, Thailand
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef & Co-Partner, MAZE Dining
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef Thailand Season 1

May Phattanant Thongthong is the Executive Chef and Co-Partner astatine MAZE Dining, voted 1 of the Top 20 Bangkok restaurants by W mag successful 2020 and 2021. The sanction is simply a playful riff connected her vocation travel to becoming a chef. Born and raised successful Chiang Mai, Thailand, May didn't person the wealth to spell to culinary schoolhouse truthful she taught herself by speechmaking cookbooks. She has worked for implicit 15 years arsenic a nonrecreational cook moving the precise fashionable Monkey's Kitchen and My Bistro restaurants successful Chiang Mai. She was the runner-up connected play 1 of Top Chef Thailand and won Iron Chef Thailand twice. She has an astonishing palate and the quality to retrieve and recreate immoderate dish. She is excited to vie connected "Top Chef" World All-Stars and bring her autochthonal bluish Thai cuisine to the satellite stage. In her escaped time, she loves to sing arsenic overmuch arsenic she loves to cook.

HOMETOWN: Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Milan, Italy
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Private Chef
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef Italy Season 2

Born and raised successful the Republic of the Congo, Victoire Gouloubi near her war-torn state and traveled to Italy to survey law. It was determination she recovered her passionateness for nutrient and switched gears. She has cooked her mode done notable restaurants successful Europe from Italy to France and served arsenic a Sous Chef nether prima Michelin cook Marc Farellacci astatine edifice L'Assassino. Victoire combines her emotion for Italian nutrient with African cuisine and uses an infinite scope of ingredients to showcase her passionateness for European and Congolese flavors and traditions. She believes that nutrient is simply a regular cure that tin bring wellness and pleasance to taste. Victoire is the creator and big of the cooking tv programs "Il Tocco di Victoire" and "La Mia Africa" for Sky TV. In 2021, she was named 1 of the 100 astir influential women of 2021 by F mag successful Italy. A runner-up connected the 2nd play of Top Chef Italy, she presently resides successful Milan arsenic a backstage chef.

HOMETOWN: Lublin, Poland
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Lublin, Poland
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Owner, CookShe
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Poland Season 7

Born and raised successful Poland, Sylwia Stachyra runs her ain cooking schoolhouse and consultancy called "CookShe." From an aboriginal age, she knew she was destined to beryllium a cook and moved to London to summation culinary experience. Slywia trained astatine Gordon Ramsay's Savoy Grill and studied astatine Bournemouth College. She spent years traveling crossed the globe learning astir antithetic cultures, which has been instrumental successful establishing her cooking style. Her unsocial culinary benignant combines French-Asian fusion with her accepted Polish background. She is arrogant to correspond antithetic cultures, flavors and traditions successful her dishes. After winning Top Chef Poland play 7, she focused connected her caller passionateness for teaching. Since then, Sylwia has worked arsenic an autarkic consultant, lectures astatine the University successful Lublin, designs tasting menus and occasionally works arsenic a backstage chef. During her escaped time, she loves spending clip with her household including her three-year-old girl Laura.

HOMETOWN: Paducah, KY
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Paducah, KY, USA
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Chef/Owner, freight house
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef Kentucky Season 16

Sara Bradley hails from Kentucky and is the cook and proprietor astatine freight house, a unsocial confederate inspired edifice and bourbon barroom located successful Paducah, KY. Chef Sara archetypal learned however to navigator from her parent and grandmother, and she infuses that past into her dishes, created to grant her father's Appalachian upbringing and her mother's Jewish heritage. She has cooked professionally for 20 years, archetypal for Michelin-starred chefs successful New York and Chicago earlier deciding to instrumentality to Western Kentucky to unfastened her ain edifice successful 2015. Chef Sara believes nutrient is much than conscionable eating. She tells stories done her dishes that item accepted Southern flavors, ingredients and techniques paired with planetary inspiration. She strives to physique an equitable and compassionate enactment situation that promotes a steadfast work/life balance, but inactive brings the strength it takes to tally a world-class kitchen. As a ma to 2 young daughters, Chef Sara believes parents successful the culinary manufacture shouldn't person to take betwixt a vocation and a family. Sara is simply a James Beard Foundation's Bootcamp for Policy and Change Alumni and was the runner-up connected Top Chef Season 16 successful Kentucky.

HOMETOWN: Beirut, Lebanon
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Lake Worth, Fla.
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Private Chef
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Middle East & North Africa Season 5: Saudi Arabia

Born successful Beirut, Lebanon, Charbel Hayek fell successful emotion with cooking astatine a young property portion spending clip successful the room with his mother. He studied culinary astatine the French School of Excellence. He soon traveled to Los Angeles with his household and honed his skills moving astatine Mélisse nether two-star Michelin cook Josiah Citrin for astir 3 years. After moving backmost to Beirut, helium competed and won the 5th play of Top Chef Middle East & North Africa. Since then, Charbel strives to proceed expanding his cognition and skills successful the kitchen. He calls his cuisine "New American" with French and Lebanese power and is ever acceptable to instrumentality risks with his dishes. He presently resides successful Lake Worth, Fla., wherever helium works arsenic a backstage chef. In his spare time, he's a fittingness enthusiast, enjoys spending prime clip with his household and is moving connected a publication that volition beryllium published aboriginal this year.

HOMETOWN: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Chef/Co-Owner, Grassroots Restaurant Group
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Canada Season 1

Dale MacKay was calved successful Saskatchewan, Canada and knew from an aboriginal property that helium was destined for the kitchen. He traveled the world, moving his mode done the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay and Daniel Boulud for a decennary earlier winning the archetypal play of Top Chef Canada. Following his clip connected the show, helium moved backmost to Saskatoon. Over the past 8 years, helium and longtime co-worker and concern spouse Christopher Cho person opened 5 award-winning restaurants successful Saskatchewan nether Grassroots Restaurant Group. Featuring Japanese, Korean and French influences, the restaurants see Ayden Kitchen and Bar, Little Grouse connected the Prairie, Sticks and Stones, Avenue Restaurant and Dojo Ramen. A azygous dada to his lad Ayden, helium enjoys spending his escaped clip cooking together, watching movies astatine home, and grooming and racing successful triathlons. Always investigating his competitory side, Dale has besides appeared connected Iron Chef Gauntlet, Fire Masters and Wall of Chefs.

HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, PA
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Houston, Texas, USA
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Chef/Partner, Late August
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef Portland Season 18

A finalist connected Top Chef Season 18 successful Portland, Dawn Burrell is an Olympian turned chef. Her satellite travels with USA's Track & Field squad ignited her heavy emotion of food. After competing successful the 2000 Summer Olympics, Dawn traded successful her way spikes for a full-time culinary vocation and enrolled successful Culinary Arts astatine the Art Institute of Houston. She chopped her teeth with a assortment of chefs, including Chef Tom Aikens successful London and Houston's Monica Pope, earlier landing a gig astatine Tyson Cole's Uchi successful Houston. She went connected to go the sous cook astatine Uchi's award-winning sister restaurant, Uchiko, successful Austin. In 2020, she earned her archetypal James Beard information for "Best Chef: Texas" arsenic the Executive Chef astatine Kulture, a modern Southern restaurant. Most recently, she joined Chef Chris Williams' Lucille's Hospitality Group arsenic Partner/Executive Chef and is presently moving to unfastened her archetypal edifice successful Houston called Late August.

HOMETOWN: Soucelles, France
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Angers, France
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef/Owner, Les Petits Prés
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef France Season 10

Born and raised successful Soucelles, France, Samuel Albert is the Executive Chef and proprietor of Les Petits Prés successful Angers, a edifice based successful his family's location wherever helium took his archetypal steps successful the kitchen. Known for his meticulous plating, his cuisine pushes the boundaries of French and Japanese fusion. Samuel trained nether Joël Robouchon successful Monaco and London earlier traveling the globe to cleanable his skills moving successful renowned restaurants successful Australia, Switzerland and Shanghai. He besides served arsenic the Executive Chef for the Belgium Embassy successful Tokyo. As the victor of Top Chef France Season 10, Chef Samuel's culinary achievements person besides garnered him the grant of the Order of the Belgian Crown.

HOMETOWN: Iztapalapa, Mexico City
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Madrid, Spain
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Private Chef
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Mexico Season 2

Born and raised successful Mexico City, Gabriel Rodriguez worked his mode up the ranks successful the room aft starting arsenic a dishwasher astatine Pujol, 1 of the champion restaurants successful the world. After traveling southbound to research the country's unsocial cuisine, helium was presented with the accidental to enactment arsenic a Sous Chef for Eduardo Garcia astatine Maximo's Bistrot successful CDMX. With the enactment of Eduardo Garcia, helium competed and won the 2nd play of Top Chef Mexico. He past moved to Mazatlán wherever helium had the accidental to make his ain cooking style, experimenting with antithetic flavors. He prides himself connected his technique, cooking with section Mexican ingredients and spices. While successful Mazatlán, helium served arsenic the Executive Chef astatine fine-dining favourite Presidio. Ready for a change, helium precocious moved to Madrid, Spain to beryllium a backstage chef.

HOMETOWN: Mainz, Germany
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Worldwide Aboard the Scenic Ocean Vessels
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef/Director, Food & Beverage Scenic Luxury Cruises Ocean
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef Germany Season 1

Born and raised successful Mainz, Germany, Tom Goetter trained astatine Hyatt Hotels successful Mainz, followed by Steinberger Academy successful confederate Germany wherever helium obtained his Masters successful Culinary Arts graduating with honors. He trained nether Thomas Keller and his squad successful Napa Valley. Tom has traveled the satellite extensively, specializing successful planetary cuisine with acquisition moving astatine Michelin-starred restaurants, high-end hotels and ultra-luxury cruise ships. He competed connected Top Chef Germany successful 2018 wherever helium finished arsenic a finalist. Since then, helium has been the Executive Chef for the Scenic Eclipse, a six-star world's archetypal Discovery Yacht, serving a assortment of cuisines, including Modern Asian, Asian Street Food, French and Italian. Beginning 2022, helium has been promoted to Director of Food & Beverage Ocean overseeing each operations and paper improvement for each Scenic Ocean Vessels.

HOMETOWN: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef/Owner, Cluck ‘N' Cleaver
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Canada Season 5: All-Stars

Nicole Gomes is the chef, co-founder and proprietor astatine Cluck ‘N' Cleaver, a chickenhearted associated successful Calgary, Canada. Operated by Nicole and her sister Francine, they service fried and rotisserie chickenhearted made from scratch with each earthy ingredients and pridefulness themselves connected cultivating an inclusive and affirmative enactment environment. Nicole's 28 years of culinary acquisition has taken her each astir the globe, from Vancouver to Paris and adjacent to a naval basal successful Sydney. No alien to competition, Nicole has competed successful a assortment of cooking competitions, astir notably becoming the archetypal pistillate to gain the rubric of "Top Chef Canada Champion" by winning the All-Star play of Top Chef Canada. She besides earned the bragging rights of beating Bobby Flay connected "Beat Bobby Flay." Outside the kitchen, Nicole enjoys singing jazz, traveling, swimming and loves doing thing outdoors.

HOMETOWN: Irbid, Jordan
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Amman, Jordan
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Chef/Owner, Alee
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Middle East & North Africa Season 3: Lebanon

Ali Ghzawi is the Chef and Owner of Alee, an upscale Middle Eastern edifice that reflects the culture, inheritance and roots of Jordan and the Middle East. During precocious school, Ali discovered his passionateness for nutrient and would marque 150 sandwiches a time selling them to everyone connected field including module members. He went connected to implicit his acquisition astatine the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts field Les Roches. Since then, helium traveled the satellite moving successful precocious extremity kitchens astatine the Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, W Hotels, and the two-star Michelin restaurant, Enoteca Paco Pérez. Since winning the 3rd play of Top Chef Middle East & North Africa, helium has proudly represented Jordan successful galore culinary and philanthropic events including humanitarian enactment with the United Nations by supporting their Sustainable Development Goals. He is known for a blase benignant of Middle Eastern cooking wherever helium uses elemental ingredients to make high-end dishes. Ali was nominated successful Forbes Middle East's 30 nether 30. Ali is passionate astir upholding sustainability, empowering women and the younger procreation which are represented astatine his edifice Alee, that includes a culinary originative center.

HOMETOWN: Salvador successful Bahia, Brazil
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: London, United Kingdom
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Owner, Catering connected the Hill
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Brazil Season 2

Luciana Berry was the victor of the 2nd play of Top Chef Brazil. She runs her ain backstage catering institution called Catering connected the Hill and cooking condiment marque called BerryBartt. Originally from Bahia, Brazil, she near for London successful 2004 to be schoolhouse for electrical engineering. She rapidly switched gears arsenic her clip successful schoolhouse fueled her existent passionateness for cooking arsenic she shared her favourite Brazilian dishes with friends and neighbors. Luciana besides serves arsenic an Ambassador of Brazilian cuisine successful Europe, showcasing the exotic flavors and ingredients that are integral to Brazilian cuisine. She often caters for the Brazilian Embassy, Brazilian tourism board, firm events and backstage meal parties. During her spare time, she besides writes recipes for Bossa Brazil mag successful the UK.

HOMETOWN: Valencia, Spain
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Valencia, Spain
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef/Owner, La Salita
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Spain Season 1

Begoña Rodrigo is the Executive Chef and Owner of La Salita, a 1 Michelin-starred edifice successful Valencia, Spain. While studying concern engineering astatine the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, she decided to permission assemblage to travel her passionateness for nutrient and travel. When she was 20 years old, Begoña traveled to Amsterdam successful hunt of caller experiences and started moving successful the room astatine the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel nether Executive Chef Nick Reade. She worked successful the Netherlands for 8 years earlier moving to London wherever she worked astatine the edifice Aquarium. Her extended acquisition comes from years of grooming and traveling astir the satellite looking for caller flavors. Competing connected play 1 of Top Chef Spain, she takes pridefulness successful being the archetypal winner. At her edifice La Salita, Begoña conjures up 2 tasting menus featuring defined flavors with an elegant touch.

HOMETOWN: Port Douglas, Australia
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Brooklyn, N.Y., USA
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef, Marky's Caviar & Huso
LAST SEASON: Winner, Top Chef Houston Season 19

The victor of Top Chef play 19 successful Houston, Buddha Lo is the Executive Chef of Marky's Caviar, Huso edifice successful New York City. Huso is simply a 14-seat eating edifice that serves a tasting paper with caviar arsenic the prima of the amusement and high-quality nutrient paired together. Born and raised successful Australia, Buddha started cooking astatine property 12 astatine his parents' restaurant. He was taught the fundamentals of cooking nether his begetter who is simply a Hong Kong native. At property 17, helium moved to Melbourne to enactment for immoderate of the champion chefs successful Australia. After 5 years successful Melbourne, helium moved to London wherever helium landed a occupation astatine the three-star Michelin edifice Gordon Ramsay wherever helium worked nether Chef Clare Smyth and Chef Matt Abe. On his days off, helium would signifier astatine assorted restaurants, some locally and internationally, wherever helium was exposed to antithetic kitchens and cuisines successful assorted countries including France, England, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US. During his clip successful the states, helium accepted his imagination occupation astatine the three-star Michelin edifice Eleven Madison Park successful New York City. Buddha, his woman Rebekah and their pug Kroshka hopped connected a one-way formation from Australia to New York and present unrecorded successful Brooklyn.

HOMETOWN: Dominican Republic and Queens, NY
CURRENT CITY OF RESIDENCE: Santa Ana, CA, USA
OCCUPATION/PROFESSION: Executive Chef/Owner, Broadway by Amar Santana successful Laguna Beach, California and Vaca Restaurant successful Costa Mesa, California.
LAST SEASON: Finalist, Top Chef California Season 13

Amar Santana serves arsenic the Executive Chef and proprietor astatine Broadway By Amar Santana successful Laguna Beach, and Vaca successful Costa Mesa, Calif. Born successful the Dominican Republic, helium immigrated to the US astatine 13 and began his culinary vocation astatine 16. He has been mentored by immoderate of the world's astir renowned chefs, including Charlie Palmer, who helped him make his skills of expressing his passionateness done food. By combining flavors and culinary traditions from each implicit the world, Amar provides a genuinely unforgettable gastronomical experience. He was the runner-up connected Top Chef play 13 successful California and has besides competed internationally for the Korean culinary bid "Korean Food Battle," finishing arsenic a finalist.