I watched every season, except this one I only saw the 1st 2 episodes. They had a woman from Montclair, NJ, who owned a restaurant, which was my old stomping grounds so I wanted to keep up with it. One thing ran into another and I was not able to get back to it.
I don't even compare this series with Hell's Kitchen. Apples and oranges to me.
I enjoy Hell's Kitchen, especially when they did the north east U.S. When you know these areas of the country, you tend to make a better connection with the show, I think.
In my area Hell's Kitchen is on 9pm, thursdays, on FOX
network. But sometimes it's pre-empted by this winter's holidays, election B.S., award ceremonies-blah,blah,blah, so I can't always count on date and time.
Top chef is on Bravo. But so many reruns play of former episodes, I don't know the correct pm time for new ones.