Chicago Chef Damarr Brown Finds a Moment of Bliss on ‘Top Chef’ | Eater Chicago

"At Virtue in Hyde Park, chef de cuisine Damarr Brown emerged as a Top Chef frontrunner after handling a soul-food block-party challenge for a fundraiser at Bethel Church: despite burning a batch of hoecakes he recovered to serve unburned hoecakes and collard greens that judges — including Top Chef alums Dawn Burrell and Kwame Onwuachi — called “a moment of bliss.” He also won immunity in the Quickfire and, when forced to make a monochromatic green dish, impressed with a harissa-glazed broccoli steak, reinforcing his mission to show that his collard greens “deserve to be in the same room as someone else’s cassoulet.”" - Aimee Levitt