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Bravo\u2019s \u201cTop Chef,\u201d<\/strong> a reality television cooking show, made a stop in Greenville for one of its Season 23 episodes.<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cThe Ultimate Dinner Party,\u201d the episode aired May 4 and brought the eight remaining chefs to compete in two challenges at Soby\u2019s, which is located on South Main Street.<\/p>\n

The Quickfire Challenge required the chefs to compete against each other to create an appetizer using Duke\u2019s Mayo, while the participants had to work together as a team to craft individual dishes for the Elimination Challenge\u2019s eight-course meal. Duke\u2019s Mayo was created in Greenville and is still produced in Greenville County.<\/p>\n

The challenges were attended by various guests, including Carl Sobocinski, founder and president of Table 301 Restaurant Group; Babette Jones, CEO and founder of Six Nineteen of 1865; Khailing Neoh, owner of Sum Bar; Carrie Morey, founder and owner of Callie\u2019s Hot Little Biscuit; Tarcy Harger, pastry chef at Soby\u2019s; Joe Cash, chef and owner of Scoundrel and Jorge Barrales Jr., co-owner of Papi\u2019s Tacos.<\/p>\n

Sobocinski also served as guest judge alongside of fellow guest judge Shuai Wang, a South Carolina local and \u201cTop Chef\u201d season 22 finalist, as well as host Kristen Kish and judge Gail Simmons.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge honor to represent Greenville and Soby\u2019s on this season\u2019s \u2018Top Chef\u2019 episode filmed here at Soby\u2019s,\u201d said Sobocinski. \u201cThere were times that I was nervous and times that I was simply in awe of not only the chef participants but also the judges and entire production crew. I had no idea what went into filming an episode of the show and was simply blown away at all the production. Having finally viewed the episode I couldn\u2019t be more happy and proud of our city for how amazing it looks on \u2018Top Chef.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscar Diaz of Durham, North Carolina was eliminated at the end of the episode, while Anthony Jones of Alexandria, Virginia, won the Quickfire Challenge and Laurence Louie of Quincy, Massachusetts, was the victor in the Elimination Challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop Chef\u201d airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on Bravo with episodes available on Peacock starting on Tuesdays. Season 23 of the show is based in Charlotte, North Carolina with visits to Greenville for several episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Top Chef” airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on Bravo, with episodes available on Peacock on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":363866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,40714,2],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"ppma_author":[23992],"class_list":["post-380493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-culture","category-food-drink","category-news","cat-4-id","cat-40714-id","cat-2-id"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","yoast_head":"\n'Top Chef' episode features Greenville restaurant Soby's, Duke's Mayo - GREENVILLE JOURNAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Entitled "The Ultimate Dinner Party," the Top Chef episode aired May 4 and brought the eight remaining chefs to compete at Soby's.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/food-drink\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"'Top Chef' episode features Greenville restaurant Soby's, Duke's Mayo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Entitled "The Ultimate Dinner Party," the Top Chef episode aired May 4 and brought the eight remaining chefs to compete at Soby's.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/food-drink\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GREENVILLE JOURNAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-05T16:10:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-05T17:15:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sobys-4-Chris-Lee-11.3.25-John-Olson.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeannie Putnam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeannie Putnam\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeannie Putnam\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b03966d8dc237d5047d53ded8ecf5f41\"},\"headline\":\"‘Top Chef’ episode features Greenville restaurant Soby’s, Duke’s Mayo\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-05T16:10:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-05T17:15:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":384,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/11\\\/Sobys-4-Chris-Lee-11.3.25-John-Olson.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Arts & Culture\",\"Food & Drink\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenvillejournal.com\\\/food-drink\\\/top-chef-episode-features-greenville-restaurant-sobys-dukes-mayo\\\/\",\"name\":\"'Top Chef' episode features Greenville restaurant Soby's, Duke's Mayo - 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