Yes, Chef!
Yes, Chef! is an American reality competition cooking show television series that premiered on NBC on April 28, 2025. The series is hosted by José Andrés and Martha Stewart.
Production
On February 13, 2025, it was announced that NBC had ordered the series with José Andrés and Martha Stewart as the hosts and executive producers.On April 3, 2025, the chefs were announced.
Format
Contestants on Yes, Chef! are professional chefs that have been nominated by their supervisors, peers, or family members because of their inability to control the personal issues interfering with their performance in the kitchen, despite their culinary potential. Hosts Andrés and Stewart guide these chefs through a series of challenges designed to test both their cooking skills and their behavior. The ultimate winner receives a cash prize of US$250,000.Each episode features two challenges:
Main Culinary Challenge: Early in the season, the Culinary Challenges were team exercises designed to test the chefs' leadership, cooperation, and technique. The judges select the winning team and one chef from either team will be crowned that episode’s Most Valuable Chef, who receives immunity from elimination. Later episodes feature individual Culinary Challenges, with the winning chef of each challenge receiving the MVC title.
Cook-off: Initially a head-to-head challenge between the MVC and a member of the losing team ; if the MVC wins the cook-off, the nominee is eliminated from the competition, but a victory by the nominee allows that chef to select another chef from the losing team to be eliminated. In later episodes, the MVC is exempt from the cook-off and is asked to select which two chefs will compete, sometimes choosing which ingredients or restrictions the at-risk chefs receive; the loser of the cook-off leaves the competition.
Chefs
| Contestant | Age | Occupation | Hometown/Home country | Result |
| Torrece 'Chef T' Gregoire | 41 | Chef-owner of restaurant, Union 41 | Bristol, Virginia | Eliminated May 5 |
| Michelle Francis | TBA | Sous-chef at Jar restaurant | Santa Monica, California | Eliminated May 12 |
| Katsuji Tanabe | 44 | Restaurateur | Raleigh, North Carolina | Withdrew May 26 |
| Peter Richardson | 23 | Private Chef | Islip Terrace, New York | Eliminated May 26 |
| Ronny Miranda | 42 | Conference Lead Chef at the The [Culinary Institute of America|Culinary Institute of America] | Oakland, California | Eliminated June 2 |
| Christopher Morales | 30s | Executive Chef at Gregory's Steakhouse | Melbourne, Florida | Eliminated June 2 |
| Julia Chebotar | 36 | Private Chef | New York City, New York | Eliminated May 19 |
| Julia Chebotar | 36 | Private Chef | New York City, New York | Returned to Competition |
| Julia Chebotar | 36 | Private Chef | New York City, New York | Re-eliminated June 9 |
| Petrina Peart | 39 | Executive Chef for the Wyoming Governor's Mansion | Cheyenne, Wyoming | Eliminated April 28 |
| Petrina Peart | 39 | Executive Chef for the Wyoming Governor's Mansion | Cheyenne, Wyoming | Returned to Competition |
| Petrina Peart | 39 | Executive Chef for the Wyoming Governor's Mansion | Cheyenne, Wyoming | Re-eliminated June 16 |
| Jake Lawler | TBA | Executive Chef at Vintage Brewing Co. | Madison, Wisconsin | Eliminated June 23 |
| Lee Frank | 46 | Executive Chef at Otis restaurant | South Berwick, Maine | Runner-up June 30 |
| Zain Ismail | 28 | Executive Sous Chef at Fork n' Film | Los Angeles, California | Runner-up June 30 |
| Emily Brubaker | 44 | Resort executive chef at Omni La Costa | Carlsbad, California | Winner June 30 |
Elimination table
Episodes