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
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