Video Clips From Top Chef Las Vegas Premiere

The sixth season of Top Chef is set to premiere later this month and this time around, the competing chefs will head off to Vegas. Check out the season synopsis and a few videos from the premiere, which airs August 19th on Bravo.

What happens in Vegas will be delicious. The sixth season of the No. 1 food show on cable, Bravo's Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series returns with Top Chef: Las Vegas, premiering a supersized episode Wednesday, August 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The 17 new chef'testants take on Sin City this season to see if they have what it takes to become Top Chef. Once again returning to the kitchen, cookbook author, actress and host Padma Lakshmi presides over the judge's table alongside head judge Tom Colicchio, renowned culinary figure and chef/owner Craft Restaurants, and judges Gail Simmons, of Food & Wine magazine and Toby Young, food critic and best-selling author of the book "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People." Some of the top names in food, movies and entertainment including Wolfgang Puck, Todd English, Natalie Portman, Daniel Boulud, Penn & Teller, Hubert Keller, Laurent Tourondel, Tim Love, Michelle Bernstein, Tyler Florence, Charlie Palmer, Paul Bartolotta, Nigella Lawson, Jerome Bocuse and Thomas Keller will be featured this season on "Top Chef: Las Vegas."

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Top Chef airs Wednesdays on Bravo (10-11 p.m. ET); Premieres August 19 (9-10 p.m. ET).