Top Chef Thailand


Top Chef Thailand is a Thai reality competition television series. The show premiered on March 25, 2017 on ONE HD. The first season consisted of 13 episodes, with 15 contestants vying for a grand prize of ฿1,000,000. Contestants shopped at Makro Food Service. Contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants being eliminated each week.

Running time

SeasonChannelDayTimeAir dates
1ONE HDSaturday20:20 – 21:50March 25, 2017 – June 24, 2017
1ONE HDFriday 13:00 – 14:30March 31, 2017April 28, 2017
1ONE HDFriday 12:50 – 14:20May 5, 2017June 30, 2017
2ONE HDSunday18:20 – 19:50October 7, 2018 – January 13, 2019
3ONE HDSaturday20:10 – 22:00November 2, 2019 – February 15, 2020
4Channel 7Sunday18:00 – 19:50February 5May 28, 2023

Show Format

  • Quickfire Challenge round : The warm up competition for contestants before the Elimination Challenge. The winners of this competition will be eligible, which has the advantage of the next race. In this round, one contestant will be eliminated.
  • Elimination Challenge round : The contestants prepare one or more dishes to meet the challenge requirements. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.
  • Elimination Quickfire Challenge : The special round in episode 12, this round is like the Quickfire Challenge round. In this round, at the least one contestant will be eliminated.
  • Restaurant Wars is a competition round from Season 4 where the two chefs with the best restaurant concepts compete by opening real restaurants.
  • Judges' Table In Season 4, the Judges' Table adopted the original format where contestants don't receive immediate feedback. Instead, the top 3 contestants are critiqued and the winner announced first. Then, the bottom 3 contestants receive their critiques. After a break for judge deliberation, the eliminated contestant from the bottom group is called back and told, "Please pack your knives and leave Top Chef" by the host or judges.