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

This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (April 2020)

Ilan Hall
Ilan Hall in the kitchen at the Gorbels in 2010.
Born	Ilan D. Hall Great Neck, New York, U.S.
Education	Culinary Institute of America
Culinary career
Cooking style	Spanish, Israeli, Fusion
Current restaurant(s) Ramen Hood, Los Angeles (2015–present)
Previous restaurant(s) The Gorbals, Los Angeles (2009–2014), The Gorbals, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2014–2015), ESH, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2014–2016), Casa Mono, New York City (2006–?)
Television show(s) Top Chef, Knife Fight

Early life and education

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]

Career

In 2007, Hall won season two of Top Chef, second season. 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 at the same time.[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 Gorbals was shut down by the county health department 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]

References

External links

• 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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