Dale Talde is an American chef best known for competing on two seasons of the Bravo reality television cooking competition show Top Chef: Top Chef: Chicago in 2008 and Top Chef All-Stars in 2010-11. He currently runs the eponymous restaurant Talde in Brooklyn, New York. Talde is Filipino-American. Talde graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. He helped open the renowned restaurant Jean Georges Vong in Chicago. He has also worked with chefs such as Carrie Nahabedian and Shawn Mcclain. In 2005, he moved to New York City to open Morimoto with Masaharu Morimoto. Talde competed on season four of Top Chef in 2008. He came in 6th place, being eliminated after his team lost in the "Restaurant Wars" competition episode. In 2010 he was invited for the Top Chef: All-Stars season. He again came in 6th place, this time being eliminated when his amberjack stew failed to impress the judges. Talde later became a sous chef at Buddakan. In January 2012 Talde opened the restaurant Talde, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The restaurant is known for a contemporary twist on on Asian flavors including Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Filipino. [More at Wikipedia]

October 25th, 1978 in (Age 46)