Top Chef has been around for a couple of decades now, and has filmed a lot of places across its 23 seasons, including the Carolinas during the current 2026 TV season. Of course, Kristen Kish is still a little newer on the series’ oft long-winded judges panel, and there are a lot of places she’d love to see the Bravo reality competition series film. She recently opened up about where she’d most love to go, and unfortunately, Cincinnati, Ohio took a little shrapnel.
Top Chef typically films the majority of its seasons in a different city or state as a whole, but the show often goes further afield for its finales. Sometimes the show even goes International, taking cheftestants to places like Italy or Singapore for the finale episodes. Per Kish, her no.1 finale pick would have to be in Japan:
