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Jason Stratton Will Be on the Next Season of ‘Top Chef’

Don't mind me, just going to Spain.

Allecia Vermillion
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At last! I got my wish for a new file photo of Jason Stratton. Photo via Bravo. Pants definitely via Stratton.

Heyo—what’s this? Top Chef announced its next season today, including its contestants. That list includes one Jason Stratton, the executive chef at Mamnoon, and previously chef of Spinasse, Artusi, and Aragona/Vespolina.

Which explains Stratton’s mysterious “trip to Spain” earlier this year. “Be suspicious of all Seattle chefs who ‘go to Spain,'” he joked via text this morning. It’s a reference to his pastry chef Carrie Mashaney, who also mysteriously disappeared to Spain for “research” back in 2013, only to surface as a Top Chef contestant in the New Orleans season.

Stratton’s a longtime fan of the show, so it’s only fitting he be on it. I have to think he makes for good TV, though not in a hair-pulling, pea puree–stealing sort of way.

Apparently this season of Top Chef will take a road trip format. Eater has the full list of contestants and says the two-night premiere airs December 3 and 4.

 




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Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion
Allecia Vermillion has spent a decade at Seattle Met, arriving as food and drink editor, and expanding her role over the years. She served as the magazine’s editor in chief until moving into a newly created executive editor role in 2021. She spearheads Seattle Met’s food and drink coverage and oversees home design content. Allecia’s writing has earned her multiple journalism awards and two James Beard Award nominations over the years. A native of Portland, Oregon, Allecia began her writing life as a newspaper reporter in the Chicago suburbs before making a grateful return to the Pacific Northwest. She has an English degree from Washington University (no, the one in St. Louis) and a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.