Chef Gabe Erales, the winner of Season 16 of Bravo’s Top Chef, had something different on the menu today – an apology.Erales, whose victory in Season 18 of the cooking competition made him the first Mexican-American chef to win the event, confessed on Instagram that he had an affair with a coworker.
That led to his firing as head chef from the Austin restaurant Comedor last December, after the Top Chef competition was taped in Oregon.The affair and his firing came to light in an interview earlier this month with the Austin American-Statesman media outlet, shortly after his victory was aired.
But Erales took some time before following that interview with a public Instagram apology.Philip Speer, one of the bosses at Comedor, told the
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