Food Council at City Harvest and the Culinary Council at Food Bank for New York City, two hunger-relief organizations. Colicchio has long been involved in food supply chain, restaurant and hunger relief issues. Television Colicchio has been involved with Top Chef since its beginning in 2006, where he has served as head judge. He is also the main consulting producer on Bravo's Top Chef spin-off series entitled Top Chef Masters. He also won an Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming as an executive producer of Top Chef, on which he appears. Colicchio was the host of the reality series Best New Restaurant (an adaptation of the British reality show Ramsay's Best Restaurant) in 2015. Colicchio appeared in the fifth episode of the first season of HBO's Treme as himself along with fellow chefs Eric Ripert, David Chang and Wylie Dufresne. He made another cameo in Season 2 alongside Ripert. In 2011, he made cameos in the Season 23 premiere episode of The Simpsons, "The Falcon and the D'ohman," and The Smurfs''. Colicchio appeared in The tenth episode of fifth season of Billions (TV Series) as a chef. Podcasting In June 2020, Colicchio launched his podcast, "Citizen Chef" via the iHeartRadio Podcast Network. The seasonal series deals with issues of food, politics, policy and citizenship. Restaurants Craft New York City Los Angeles Craftsteak Las Vegas Small Batch Garden City, NY Temple Court (formerly known as Fowler & Wells) New York City Tom Colicchio's Heritage Steak Las Vegas, The Mirage Riverpark New York City New York City Former restaurants Beachcraft, Miami Beach, closed Craft, Dallas, closed June 30, 2012 Craft and Craftbar, Atlanta, closed Craftbar, New York City, closed Craftsteak, MGM Grand at Foxwoods, closed Colicchio & Sons, New York City, closed Gramercy Tavern, New York City, no longer affiliated Topping Rose House, Bridgehampton, NY, no longer affiliated , Las Vegas, closed , San Francisco, closed Personal life He has been married to filmmaker Lori Silverbush since 2001. He has three sons: Dante (born 1993), his child with an ex-girlfriend, and his two children with Silverbush, Luka Bodhi (born 2009) and Mateo Lev (born 2011). Books References External links 1962 births American chefs American male chefs American people of Italian descent American restaurateurs Living people Participants in American reality television series Primetime Emmy Award winners Businesspeople from Elizabeth, New Jersey Businesspeople from New York City Elizabeth High School (New Jersey)