SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Williams Sonoma, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM) portfolio of brands, announced today a partnership with Bravo Media’s Emmy and James Beard Award-winning “Top Chef” which includes a series of branded in-store events around the premiere. This season, the winner of the coveted title of “Top Chef” will also receive a Williams Sonoma prize package and a spot on the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage at the 2019 BottleRock Music Festival in Napa Valley. Additionally, through their Watch n’ Win Sweepstakes viewers can enter to win a trip to the 2019 BottleRock Music & Food Festival in Napa Valley and meet the winner of “Top Chef” this spring. Viewers can enter by tweeting the secret hashtag that will be revealed during the “Top Chef” season 16 premiere on Thursday, December 6 at 9pm ET/PT.
To celebrate their partnership and launch of the new season on Thursday, December 6th Williams Sonoma will host “Top Chef” Holiday Entertaining Cooking Classes at stores nationwide where customers can sample recipes from some of the series’ most beloved cheftestants. Attendees of the event in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas and Philadelphia will be able to learn directly from the show’s popular past cheftestants.
A full list of events is included below:
Bravo's “Top Chef” Holiday Entertaining Cooking Class at Williams
Sonoma
Thursday, December 6th from 6:30-8 pm
All Williams
Sonoma Stores
- The Holidays are right around the corner and to celebrate we’re teaming up with our friends at Bravo's Top Chef for the ultimate Holiday Entertaining Event. We’ll share tips and tricks from the experts and learn to make a few of their favorite small bites for Holiday parties that are perfect for a crowd.
The Top Chef Cooking Class is slated to be hosted by notable alums in the following markets:
- New York City - Chef Grayson Schmitz
- Atlanta (Ponce City Market) - Chef Kevin Gillespie
- Beverly Hills - Chef Joe Sasto
- Dallas (North Park) - Chef Tiffany Derry
- Philadelphia (King of Prussia) - Chef Jenn Carroll
Additional Top Chef events will take place on the first Thursday of the month through March 2019. For more information about Williams Sonoma’s partnership with Top Chef please visit: www.williams-sonoma.com/topchef
ABOUT WILLIAMS SONOMA
Since its founding by Chuck Williams
in 1956, the Williams Sonoma brand has been bringing people together
around food. A member of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM) portfolio of
brands, Williams Sonoma is a leading specialty retailer of high-quality
products for the kitchen and home, providing world-class service and an
engaging customer experience. Products include cookware, cooks’ tools,
cutlery, electrics, bakeware, food, tabletop and bar, outdoor,
cookbooks, as well as furniture, lighting and decorative accessories.
Each store offers cooking classes and tastings conducted by expert
culinary staff. A comprehensive gift
registry program for weddings and other special events is available
in stores and online. On williams-sonoma.com and
the Williams Sonoma blog, Taste,
customers can find recipes, tips, and techniques that help them create
delicious meals and wonderful memories. Williams Sonoma is also part of
an active community on Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and YouTube.
ABOUT BRAVO MEDIA
Bravo Media is the premier lifestyle and
entertainment brand that drives cultural conversation around its
high-quality, interactive original content across all platforms. The
network has a diverse slate of original programming that includes the
scripted anthology series “Dirty John,” along with unscripted favorites
such as Emmy Award-winning “Top Chef,” “Vanderpump Rules,” “Below Deck,”
“Southern Charm,” and the popular “Million Dollar Listing” and “The Real
Housewives” franchises. Bravo also boasts the only live late-night talk
show on television with the critically acclaimed “Watch What Happens
Live with Andy Cohen,” which has become a nightly destination for A-list
celebrities. Available in 87 million homes, Bravo is a program service
of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of
the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the
development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and
information to a global audience. Watch Bravo anywhere: on demand,
online, or across mobile and connected TVs. Bravo has been an
NBCUniversal cable network since December 2002 and first launched in
December 1980.