Restaurant Wars is Top Chef's challenge for episode 9, with Rick Moonan as guest judge. Laurine goes home after Tom and Padma decide she's not restaurant material. The Quickfire and Elimination challenges are heated, entertaining and delicious all at the same time.

Chef Dave Levey of San Diego, beat out Kevin and Ariel in Hell's Kitchen Season 6, episode 15. Chef Dave gets the job at Araxi Restaurant in Whistler, British Columbia as the head chef. With the 2010 Winter Olympics gearing up, Chef Dave is at the right place at the right time!

How would you like to be the next Top Chef? Bravo TV is holding casting calls in Miami, San Francisco, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles. Show up in person or send in an application. Either way, the competition will be fierce.

Top Chef returns this week as the chefs are at the mercy of the slots. Guest judge is yummy Tyler Florence. Top Chef Season 6 Episode 7 is titled “Dinner Party” – a catered dinner for the chefs in Macy’s Culinary Council.

As the culinary world deals with the distasteful news of Gourmet Magazine's demise, Cookie, Condé Nast's parenting magazine is also taking a major hit.

Not surpisingly, two of Twitter's top trending topics today are Condé Nast and Gourmet. Twitter is going ballistic with the awful news. The Tweets this morning are of shock, awe, disbelief, and surprisingly, anger.

Food Porn worshipers worldwide are shocked. At almost 70 years old, Gourmet Magazine, reported to be the nation's oldest food magazine, is
sadly closing its glossy magazine. Also shutting down are Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Cookie.

Union County Chamber of Commerce was celebrating one of its newest members on Tuesday. The Restaurant Kavkaz, which features Russian, Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Armenian gourmet food, became a member of the Chamber. Tomorrow it will feature and introduce one of the most renowned Chefs from the West Coast who traveled to Charlotte this afternoon from Los Angeles.

Man vs Food host Adam Richman continues today his journey across America testing food from around the nation. Currently Man vs Food is running on Travel Channel across America. He will tell us more about food in America on August 5. In the meanwhile, let's see what has been on today in Richman's gourmet travels hour by hour.

Berres Brothers is on the Food network brewing fresh gourmet Coffee. The coffee makers Tweeted this evening and said that the Berres Brothers' Food Network premier is well underway

Last Saturday I witnessed how a newly opened restaurant in South Charlotte is fast becoming the gathering place of the Eastern Europeans living in North and South Carolina. Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Ukrainians and the American residents of Charlotte had come to attend the Grand Opening of Kavkaz restaurant.