Ciao House

Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini welcome 12 talented chefs to Puglia, Italy; they live and cook together, fusing their own culinary styles with Italian cuisine; one chef's journey ends when their own team votes them out of the villa.

Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini introduce the nine remaining chefs to authentic Italian nonnas, who showcase how to make handmade pasta from scratch. Tempers flare during a team-based pasta challenge, and the losing team must vote to send home one of their own.

The eight remaining chefs travel to a famed Tuscan vineyard where judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge them to create a three-course restaurant-style menu incorporating truffles and wine pairings. Alliances form and personalities grate, and one more chef must leave the villa.

The seven remaining chefs meet a butcher whose family business is over three centuries old. Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the two teams to create a menu based around the prized Bistecca alla Fiorentina, which tests them like never before. Tragedy strikes, and one chef must leave the villa early.

Two team captains join our hosts on a visit to an Italian cheese cave that has been operating for over a thousand years. After an invaluable cheese tasting, the two leaders must purchase their main ingredients BEFORE they know what their challenge is. At the end of what is their most difficult round yet, one more chef will be sent home.

Four remaining chefs face a wild boar challenge with two eliminations, battling for spots in the life-changing finale.

The finale plans of the two remaining chefs, Natalia Rosario and Saba Duffy, are turned upside down and inside out when the hosts and judges, Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini, invite some "familia" back to the beautiful Tuscan villa for one last chance at redemption.

Eliminated chefs compete for a spot in the finale. The winner joins two finalists to cook a final meal, vying for a culinary education prize across Italy with renowned chefs.

The chefs arrive at a villa in Puglia, Italy, and one chef's journey ends.

The chefs learn from Italian nonnas how to make pasta shapes from scratch.

After visiting an Italian bakery, the chefs create a menu featuring bread.

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 choose one teammate each to visit an Italian butcher shop that goes back generations. Then, judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the chefs to create a menu using the grill as their only heat source.

Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini inform the seven chefs they will be hosting the first ever Ciao House pizza festival, where they must make enough pies to feed 50 hungry guests and a renowned pizzaiolo.

Judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge the six remaining chefs to make three dishes featuring charcuterie board ingredients, and one must be a dessert.

With just five chefs remaining, the two team captains must choose their teammates before they are given the details of the next challenge from judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini.

The final four chefs are shocked when judges Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini challenge them to create a three-course menu using only five ingredients per dish.

The two remaining chefs are stunned when unwelcome guests arrive. Juries Alex Guarnaschelli and Gabe Bertaccini pick the winner.