Chef at Large: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Chef at Large is an all-access back stage pass to the fast-paced hidden world of chefs and cuisines. Chef Michael Smith is on the adventure of a lifetime as he travels to meet other skilled chefs, investigates their amazing and diverse kitchens and documents their unique and challenging worlds. Chef at Large presents a creative and insightful exploration into culinary culture. Join Chef Michael Smith as he visits and explores everything from Cooks Studio Café in Vancouver's East End, to Fire & Ice, ice and sugar sculptures by Golden Chefs, to Mushroom Foraging in the wilds of Oregon. Viewers will be introduced to a variety of talented and fascinating people as they deal with their distinctive culinary challenges. Whether Michael's getting creative and messy, laughing it up with other chefs or discovering some very exceptional and special people and their kitchen setting.

Series details

• Title: Chef at Large
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2002-01-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2006-12-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Flavour Network
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 17640
• IMDb ID: tt0485561
• TVDB ID: 79787

Cast and credited roles

• Michael Smith — Michael Smith

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2002-01-08; final listed air date 2002-04-16; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 2003-01-07; final listed air date 2003-04-01; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 2004-01-09; final listed air date 2004-04-02; episode order: 13.
• Season 4: premiered 2005-01-03; final listed air date 2005-03-28; episode order: 13.
• Season 5: premiered 2006-01-03; final listed air date 2006-12-18.

Source and licence

Adapted from Chef at Large on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.