virginia dalbeck won first season of hell's kitchen.
who won first season of hell's kitchen?
virginia dalbeck
this article contains contestant information and episode summaries from the first season of the american competitive reality television series "hell's kitchen". season 1 aired starting on may 30, 2005 and concluded on august 1, 2005. michael wray from fort collins, colorado, won the first season of "hell's kitchen", thus winning his own restaurant in los angeles named tatou (he was offered to go to london to work under gordon ramsay, but later declined due to family reasons). this was the first season where the teams were not separated by gender at the start, which wouldn't happen again until season 18.
hell's kitchen (american season 1)
some of the contestants on "chopped" would go on to appear in fox's reality show "hell's kitchen". william lustberg, the runner up on the ninth episode of the first season, was the runner up on season 9 of "hell's kitchen". roshni mansukhani, the winner of the fourth episode of the second season, was eliminated in the eighth episode of the tenth season of "hell's kitchen". jackie baldassari, who was eliminated after the entrée in the tenth episode of the ninth season of chopped, was eliminated in the ninth episode of the eleventh season of "hell's kitchen". anthony "anton" testino, who was eliminated after the appetizer in the tenth episode of the fifth season, was eliminated in the fourteenth episode of the twelfth season of "hell's kitchen". robyn almodovar, the winner of the sixth episode of the twenty-fourth season, had previously been eliminated in the sixteenth episode of the tenth season of "hell's kitchen" and was later eliminated in thirteenth episode of the seventeenth season of "hell's kitchen". finally, hassan musselmani, who was eliminated after the dessert in the third episode of the 35th season of chopped, had previously been eliminated in the seventh episode of the fifteenth season of "hell's kitchen". in addition, frank bilotti, who was eliminated after the entrée in the third episode of the 37th season, had previously been eliminated in the tenth episode of the thirteenth season of "hell's kitchen". some former contestants and judges from chopped have also appeared on beat bobby flay, as well as several former contestants appearing on another food network series "cutthroat kitchen".
chopped (tv series)