Wildcard Kitchen 2
Channel: Food Network (DStv 175)
TX Time: 21h55
Genre: Food, Reality Competition
The bets are bigger and the stakes are higher in the 10-episode return of Wildcard Kitchen, the late-night culinary card game where all-star chefs bet, bluff and backstab for cold hard cash and bragging rights.
In each episode, host Eric Adjepong welcomes three chefs who know each other well to the test kitchen after-hours for three hands of his underground poker game.
With scores to settle and lots of smack talk, each chef brings $5,000 to the game where the luck of the draw determines dishes and cooking time - while Eric throws his own unexpected challenges into the mix.
In the season premiere, Vegas big spenders Jet Tila and siblings Michael and Bryan Voltaggio up the ante by bringing double the cash to the table, while serving up delectable dishes and lots of trash talk to determine who will be crowned king of the high-stakes kitchen.
Chefs also playing against each other include food legends Alex Guarnaschelli, Rocco DiSpirito and Andrew Zimmern; and culinary titans Michael Symon, Esther Choi and Marcel Vigneron.
There's also James Beard-award winners Karen Akunowicz, Stephanie Izard and Jonathan Sawyer; and Chopped judges Tiffani Faison, Amanda Freitag and Geoffrey Zakarian.
Competition sharks Tiffany Derry, Mei Lin and Brian Malarkey feature; as do comfort food connoisseurs Eddie Jackson, Damaris Phillips and Molly Yeh.
Finally, frenemies Carlos Anthony, Kelsey Bernard Clark and Crista Luedtke turn up; as do restaurant queens Antonia Lofaso, Ayesha Nurdjaja and Claudette Zepeda and a top-secret trio of returning Wildcard winners.