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If Carla Hall Becomes the Next ‘Top Chef,’ She Doesn’t Want Her Own Restaurant

Posted by Tim Carman on Feb. 24, 2009 at 6:34 pm

Heading into tomorrow night's Top Chef finale, D.C.-based caterer Carla Hall tells ZagatBuzz that she has no interest in opening her own restaurant. That would put her in the minority of Top Chef finalists, winners or not. Ilan Hall, Sam Talbot, Harold Dieterle, Hung Huynh, and Stephanie Izard, among others, have all either opened or are planning to open their own restaurants.

Not Hall. She tells Olga Boikess:

No, I don’t want to start a restaurant. But, I’d like a kitchen of my own, with a chef’s table (to cook for people) and a place to hold cooking classes. And I’d like to retail the sweet and savory cookies that we make for catering customers

Hall has been making the media rounds prior to tomorrow's finale. She also did a Q&A with the Washingtonian.

Image courtesy of Bravo.

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  1. bd February 25th, 2009
    11:18 pm
    #1

    Love Carla and even though she had some issues in the final show, the fans on Bravo.com voted her as their Top Chef.

    Unfortunately, she made the mistake of allowing the helper in her kitchen to influence her food choices and it contributed to her loss. If Carla had cooked the food her way, I have no doubt that she would have won...i could tell the judges wanted to give it to her and were disappointed that she had a slip in judgement during the most important meal that would determine the winner.

    But we still love you Carla...You are our Top Chef!!!

  2. micki March 27th, 2009
    1:47 pm
    #2

    Absolutely! She won us over and it was heartbreaking to see her give in to a former "looser". Otherwise she would have mopped the floor with those two. This was the weakest season so far, a disappointment that so many mediocre cookers (won't call them chefs!) skated through with such boring dishes. I'd like to see the integrity brought back to the show and the best chef actually win the thing. If I just want to watch clowning in the kitchen, I can turn on Hells Kitchen!!!

  3. Micki March 29th, 2009
    4:10 pm
    #3

    I don't know who used my name to comment on Carla Hall, but it was not me.

  4. CRS December 23rd, 2010
    10:36 pm
    #4

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF CARLA EVER LIVED OR WENT TO SCHOOL AT SOME POINT IN CALIFORNIA....

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