Top Chef Auditions Today In Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Local chefs, please pack your knives and go ... to Spoon and Stable this Friday to try out for the popular cooking reality competition show "Top Chef."

The show, which will currently airing its 13th season on Bravo Network with a native Wisconsinite in its cast, is holding auditions for chefs in the Twin Cities area (or beyond) on Friday.

Auditions will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Oh, and the application form is a mere 20 pages long, so if you haven't started filling it out, get cracking.

Currently, the show is hosted by Padma Lakshmi and the judges panel includes Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, Emeril Lagasse, and Richard Blais, among other notable culinary celebrities.

The current cast includes Grayson Schmitz, who lives in New York now but is originally from New Holstein, Wisconsin.