Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 16) Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 16) The sixteenth season of the American competitive reality television series "Hell's Kitchen" premiered on September 23, 2016 on Fox. Gordon Ramsay returned as host/head chef, Marino Monferrato and Aaron Mitrano returned as maitre d' and blue kitchen sous chef respectively while Andi van Willigan-Cutspec resumed her role as sous chef for the red team after Season 10 winner Christina Wilson filled in for her in the previous season while she got married. This was also the first season since Season 13 to take a hiatus due to Fox's coverage of the 2016 World Series in
Jun Tanaka (chef) Room" as a sous chef under Marco Pierre White, before moving to "The Square" as junior sous chef under Philip Howard and onto "Chavot" under Eric Chavot as sous chef. In 2004, Tanaka became the executive head chef of the Renaissance London Chancery Court Hotel's "Pearl" Restaurant and Bar, a fine dining establishment that specialises in French cuisine. In addition to his job as "Pearl" executive chef, Tanaka partnered with Notting Hill Brassierie's head chef Mark Jankel in 2009 to set up a venture using a street catering van, "Street Kitchen", to produce and sell gourmet lunches, using 100% British