Denver chefs know their way around a kitchen, and many of them are also quite comfortable in reality TV show kitchens as well. Two more will join the ranks of celebrity chefs beginning this month with the airing of two cooking competition shows.
Byron Gomez, who helped Denver restaurant Bruto hold on to its Michelin star when the awards were announced on Monday, is one of eight chefs who will cook in a new Food Network competition called “Last Bite Hotel,” premiering Tuesday, Sept. 24.
The group has been “invited to a remote hotel for a game of resourcefulness and creativity,” according to the show’s media material. “Tasked by the hotel manager to meet the culinary demands of the hotel’s VIP guests, each chef may only bring 13 ingredients for their entire stay. Cooking skills won’t be enough to get them to the finish line, as ingenuity and calculated risks are needed to survive and cook another day.” The show is hosted by actor Tituss Burgess.
Gomez, who has cooked in Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City like Café Boulud, Atera and Eleven Madison Park, appeared on “Top Chef: Portland” in 2021 and later moved to Colorado. In January, he took over at Bruto, which had won a Michelin star four months earlier.
The other Colorado chef who will take a star turn this month is Brandon Kerr, who helped open Stone Cellar Bistro, a fine-dining restaurant at 7605 Grandview Ave. in Arvada.
The restaurant revealed on social media this week that Kerr had been away from the kitchen there for a month while he was filming and competing on Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” Season 23, which debuts on Thursday, Sept. 26, on Fox.
Stone Cellar Bistro will host watch parties every Thursday while the show is airing.
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