Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 18) Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 18) Hell's Kitchen: Rookies vs Veterans is the eighteenth season of the American competitive reality television series "Hell's Kitchen" and premiered on September 28, 2018, on Fox. Gordon Ramsay returns as host and head chef, and Season 10 winner Christina Wilson and British "MasterChef" judge James "Jocky" Petrie return as the red and blue sous chefs, respectively, alongside maitre'd Marino Monferrato. This season features eight new contestants battling eight returning veterans. For the first time, the winner of this season will receive a position as an executive chef at Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen Restaurant at Caesars
Michael Hutchings (chef) Michael Hutchings (chef) Michael Hutchings (born 1949) is a professional chef who is best known as the chef/owner of Michael's Waterside in Santa Barbara, California. He appears with Julia Child on the PBS cooking program "Dinner at Julia's" and on Cox Television with Jeanne Berg's "Cooking Local" program. Since 2015, he has appeared as the Chef Host of the Santa Barbara ABC-Affiliate cooking program "The Inn Crowd". Michael Hutchings first worked at a restaurant in college. His first major job was in the kitchen of the private Club 33 at Disneyland. Michael Hutchings eventually became executive chef of Club 33,