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‘Top Chef’ Season 21 Winner Revealed: How Will They Spend $303,000 Prize?


The winner of Top Chef Season 21 exclusively tells Us Weekly what they'll do with their $303,000 prize and more

On the Wednesday, June 19, season finale of the long-running Bravo reality competition, following 14 episodes and just as many Quick Fire and Elimination Challenges, one chef emerged triumphant above 15 other contestants: Danny Garcia. The classically-trained Executive Chef with the Saga Hospitality Group defeated fellow finalists Dan Jacobs of Wisconsin and Savannah Miller of North Carolina in an emotional final challenge — chefs were tasked with prepping “the best four-course meal of your life” — that took place aboard a Holland America Eurodam cruise ship docked in the Caribbean. As the New Yorker did throughout the season, Garcia impressed judges Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and brand-new host Kristen Kish with an elegant, inventive quartet of dishes that included a sublime breadfruit tuile, smoked mussels, lobster and more “significant food memories” as he put it.

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