1. Thomas Patrick Colicchio is an American celebrity chef.
22 Facts About Tom Colicchio
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Tom Colicchio co-founded the Gramercy Tavern in New York City, and formerly served as a co-owner and as the executive chef.
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Tom Colicchio is the founder of Crafted Hospitality, which includes Craft, Temple Court, Craftsteak and Small Batch restaurants.
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Tom Colicchio is the recipient of five James Beard Foundation Awards for cooking accomplishments.
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Tom Colicchio has been the head judge on every season of Bravo reality TV show Top Chef as well as Best New Restaurant which he executive produces.
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Tom Colicchio has been a featured chef on Great Chefs shows.
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Tom Colicchio was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the middle son of Beverly Ann and Thomas Patrick Tom Colicchio.
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Tom Colicchio has an older brother Michael and a younger brother Philip John.
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Tom Colicchio sold his interest in 2006 and is no longer affiliated with the restaurant.
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Tom Colicchio won the 2010 Outstanding Chef award from the James Beard Foundation.
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Tom Colicchio is Executive Producer of A Place At The Table.
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Tom Colicchio serves on the Food Council at City Harvest and the Culinary Council at Food Bank for New York City, two hunger-relief organizations.
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Tom Colicchio has long been involved in food supply chain, restaurant and hunger relief issues.
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Tom Colicchio has been involved with Top Chef since its beginning in 2006, where he has served as head judge.
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Tom Colicchio is the main consulting producer on Bravo's Top Chef spin-off series entitled Top Chef Masters.
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Tom Colicchio won an Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming as an executive producer of Top Chef, on which he appears.
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Tom Colicchio was the host of the reality series Best New Restaurant in 2015.
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Tom Colicchio appeared in the fifth episode of the first season of HBO's Treme as himself along with fellow chefs Eric Ripert, David Chang and Wylie Dufresne.
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Tom Colicchio made another cameo in Season 2 alongside Ripert.
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Tom Colicchio appeared as a chef in the fifth season of the Showtime TV series Billions, in the episode titled Liberty.
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In June 2020, Tom Colicchio launched his podcast, "Citizen Chef" via the iHeartRadio Podcast Network.
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Tom Colicchio has been married to filmmaker Lori Silverbush since 2001.