Life and career

Colicchio was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of Beverly (née Corvelli) and Thomas Colicchio. He is of Italian descent on both sides. He has been married to filmmaker Lori Silverbush since 2001. He has three sons.

In July 1994, Colicchio and his partner Danny Meyer opened the Gramercy Tavern in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. It was voted Most Popular Restaurant in New York City by the Zagat Survey in 2003 and 2005. He sold his interest in 2006 and is no longer affiliated with the restaurant. In spring 2001, he opened the first Craft restaurant one block south of Gramercy Tavern. A year later, he opened the first Craftsteak at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In 2003, he began the first 'wichcraft, his sandwich shop. In 2010, he opened Colicchio & Sons, and also Riverpark. Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Colicchio joined volunteers serving food to rescue workers at Ground Zero.

Colicchio won the 2010 Outstanding Chef award from the James Beard Foundation.

Colicchio has written three cookbooks. He, Jeff Bridges, and Raj Patel appeared in the documentary film A Place at the Table released in the U.S. on March 1, 2013. He is also Executive Producer of A Place At The Table.

Television

Colicchio has been involved with Top Chef since its beginning in 2006, where he has served as head judge. He is also the main consulting producer on Bravo's Top Chef spin-off series entitled Top Chef Masters. He also won an Emmy Award in 2010 for Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming as an executive producer of Top Chef, on which he appears.

Colicchio appeared in the fifth episode of the first season of HBO's Treme as himself along with fellow chefs Eric Ripert, David Chang and Wylie Dufresne. He made another cameo in Season 2 alongside Ripert. In 2011, he made cameos in the Season 23 premiere episode of The Simpsons, "The Falcon and the D'ohman," and The Smurfs.

Restaurants

Craft

• New York City
• Los Angeles
• Dallas closed June 30, 2012

Craftbar

• New York City
• Los Angeles

Colicchio & Sons (formerly Craftsteak)

• New York City

'wichcraft

• New York City
• San Francisco closed

Craftsteak

• Las Vegas

Beachcraft

• Miami Beach, Florida

Voysey's (Private) (consultant)

• Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Riverpark

• New York City

Topping Rose House

• Bridgehampton, New York

Heritage Steak

• Las Vegas, The Mirage

Books

• Colicchio, Tom; Young, Catherine; Silverbush, Lori; Fri, Sean (2000). Think like a chef. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. ISBN 9780609604854.
• Colicchio, Tom; Young, Catherine; Bettencourt, Bill (2003). Craft of cooking : notes and recipes from a restaurant kitchen. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. ISBN 9780609610503.
• Colicchio, Tom; Ortúzar, Sisha (2009). 'Wichcraft : craft a sandwich into a meal--and a meal into a sandwich. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers. ISBN 9780609610510.

Charities

Tom Colicchio supports the following charitable cause: Hunger.

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