Wor dTopOn of the

Sara Bradley undertook the journey of a lifetime to London’s pubs and palaces and ultimately to Paris, France as a winning part of Bravo’s Top Chef World All Stars

SHE’S THE DIVA OF DELICIOUSNESS— the queen of cuisine—and most recently the last woman standing as a top three finalist on the 2023 edition of Top Chef World All Stars.

As all of us locals know, this wasn’t her first competitive cooking rodeo. Sara was the runner-up in Top Chef Season 16 in 2019. But this time around, EVERYONE in this culinary combat was already a winner; thus the term ALL STARS.

“It was definitely intimidating,” Sara says. “Almost everyone in this all-stars season was a winner in their former individual competitions. And ALSO, they were from all over the world. So, there’s that!”

But if you know Sara, you know that intimidation and fear do not deter this girl of grins and grits. She has fear and intimidation for breakfast (along with, we’re sure, a delectable breakfast bagel.)

“When I got the call from the casting director, I wasn’t sure I wanted to make that kind of commitment to be away from my family and the restaurant for that long again,” Sara recalls. The filming required Sara to be in Europe for three months. The production took place in 2022 from August to October.

“But then there was this sense of the need for redemption,” she adds. “And when I