Ciao House

Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini welcome ten chefs to the Tuscan villa where they will live, cook and prove their skills with Italian cuisine.

The chefs visit authentic Italian nonnas before Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini ask them to take on a pasta challenge. Then, the competitors are inspired by an Italian bakery and create a menu incorporating bread into every dish.

The eight remaining chefs are transported to a well-known Tuscan vineyard, where the judges ask them to make a three-course menu with truffles and wine pairings, meant for a restaurant, while the threat of elimination looms over the chefs.

The nine remaining chefs travel to Otranto, Italy, where they purchase fresh seafood right from the docks. Then, judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini task the chefs with their most difficult challenge yet.

Two team captains join Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini on a visit to a thousand-year-old cheese cave. After an invaluable cheese tasting, the two leaders must purchase their main ingredients befoire they are given the details of the challenge.

Hosts Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini inform the four remaining chefs that not one, but two of them will be going home after a wild boar challenge. Only two chefs will make it to the finale and battle it out for the life-changing grand prize.