Life After Top Chef

In the premiere episode of "Life After Top Chef," viewers catch a glimpse into the personal and professional lives of memorable former chef'testants - Richard Blais in Atlanta, Jen Carroll in Philadelphia, Spike Mendelsohn in D.C., and Fabio Viviani in Los Angeles.

After some last minute schmoozing and boozing in Aspen, the chefs return home. Fabio dives into production meetings and a charity cooking class at a local church. Richard checks in on his Flip Burger boutiques and is appalled to discover his reputation is going up in flames. Spike fears his nosy parents will interfere with his new bistro concept. Jen's desperate quest for investors leads her to the Charleston Food & Wine Festival, where she serves up lambs and clams to the culinary elite.

Richard interviews potential chefs for the Spence and struggles to get out of the doghouse with his frustrated wife by granting her unsettling birthday wish. Jen feels the pressure preparing a charity dinner for Cole Hamels and the Phillies. Fabio's busy schedule is interrupted by the arrival of his Italian mother, who's got her own advice on how he should be living his life.

After a teary farewell with his mother, Fabio jets to New York for a celebrity chef appearance on "Good Morning America." Richard cooks at the prestigious Food & Wine Best New Chef event to promote the Spence and impress his critics. Richard confides in Fabio and fellow Top Chef alums Carla Hall, Angelo Sosa and Dale Talde over a revealing dinner. Frustrated with her stalled restaurant, Jen flees Philadelphia on a flirty road trip with Spike.

A frazzled Richard conducts a nerve-racking menu tasting for his picky partners, and critiques construction of The Spence. Fabio meets a beverage maker in hopes of striking it rich with his own a martini drink line. Spike and Jen wrap up their road trip with a lesson in oyster farming.

With only a week left until its opening, Spike and his family scramble to get Good Stuff Crystal City ready for the public. Jen puts her pop-up restaurant on hold to travel to L.A. and helps Fabio cater an extravagant charity dinner. Richard forces his chefs through a gauntlet of cooking tests to find their skills tragically lacking.

Fabio and Jacopo try to make a splash in the beverage biz with a VIP tasting of their new martini line. Spike delivers on his promise to bring investors to Jen's pop up, but she still struggles to impress investors with the launch of her pop-up restaurant. It's the opening day of the Spence and Richard is more on edge than ever as he battles a packed house, his rookie staff, and a broken smoker.

Still striving to find a work-life balance, Fabio meets with his life coach and has a shocking breakthrough about his secret, painful past. Meanwhile, Spike and his family make a mad dash to open the doors on Good Stuff Crystal City only to discover that none of their staff knows how to cook their signature burgers. Then, its "Top Chef" déjà vu as the four former cheftestants are summoned one last time to battle it out in a Quickfire-style cook-off for First Lady Michelle Obama.