Top Chef has chosen its Season 6 city. And what city is that, you ask? Big hint: it's a town that's already very familiar with chips..

Yup, Padma, Tommy C, and the cheftestants are going to Vegas.

And that's not as wacky as it might once have been - just over a decade ago, perhaps the best thing Vegas had to recommend it as a culinary city were $1.25 biscuits and gravy at 5 in the morning. It was the land of all-you-can-eat, and nothing you want to. But with the push to make Vegas more family and business friendly around the milennium came a plethora of new fine dining establishments. Many top restauranteurs are opening spots in Vegas, and the city already has its very own celebrity chef - Jeff Henderson, drug-dealer turned bestselling author, executive chef at the Bellagio, and Food Network personality. And you Top Chef fans might recall that Season 3 winner Hung was a sous chef at Guy Savoy's restaurant in Vegas.

So this is not the culinary equivalent of putting all your money on your birthdate in roulette. It is, however, not where many thought Top Chef was going, since snivelly little trickster Toby Young had twittered that filming had already begun in Seattle. But then, he also twittered that Tom Colicchio had grown a huge beard and looked like Joaquin Phoenix. Lesson: don't believe Twitter or Toby Young. See, this is how you lose friends and alienate people.

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