Ilan Hall

Ilan D. Hall is an American chef, television personality, and restaurateur. He won the second season of Top Chef, and is owner-chef of Ramen Hood in Los Angeles.^[1]

Hall is a native of Great Neck, New York. His parents were both immigrants: his father from Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother from Israel. Both his parents were from Jewish families.^{[2] [3]}

As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck^[4] and was later trained at Italy's Lorenzo de' Medici Apicus Program,^{[5] [6]} and at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).^[7]

In 2007, Hall won season two of Top Chef. Ilan was a line cook at Casa Mono, a Spanish restaurant in Manhattan. He had a rivalry with Marcel Vigneron during the show, with whom he attended culinary school simultaneously.^[8] Bravo ranked "The Head Shaving Incident" involving Hall and Vigneron as "probably the biggest scandal in Top Chef history."^[9]

In August 2009, he opened his first restaurant, The Gorbals, in downtown Los Angeles.^[10] Less than a week after opening, The county health department shut down The Gorbals because of an inadequate water heater.^[11] It reopened on October 23, 2009, but then permanently closed in 2014.^{[12] [13]}

In 2014, Hall opened a second iteration of The Gorbals restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.^{[14] [15]} He redesigned the menu with an Israeli barbecue concept in 2015 and renamed the restaurant ESH, the Hebrew word for fire.^[16] ESH closed in September 2016.

Hall opened Ramen Hood in Los Angeles at Grand Central Market in 2015.^[1]

Hall hosted Knife Fight , a cooking competition show on the Esquire Network for four seasons.^{[17] [18]} The show ended in 2017 when NBCUniversal announced it was shutting down the Esquire Network cable channel.^[19]

• Bio at the Top Chef website
• Bravo’s New Top Chef Tells All Review at the Food & Wine website
• Ilan Hall beats Marcel Vigneron to become 'Top Chef 2' champion Article at Realitytvworld.com
• Great Neck to Great Chef? Article at Newsday.com

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• American people of Scottish-Jewish descent
• American people of Israeli descent
• Culinary Institute of America alumni
• People from Great Neck, New York
• American restaurateurs
• 21st-century American Jews
• Chefs from Los Angeles

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