Ilan D. Hall (born April 6, 1982) is an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series Top Chef.
Hall is a native of Great Neck, New York, U.S.. He attended Elizabeth Miller (E.M) Baker elementary school and Temple Israel Hebrew school. His parents were both immigrants: his father from Scotland, and his mother from Israel. Chef_2/videos/index.php?id=51629" target="_blank">Ilan’s submission video at Bravotv.com Hall's mother, Rita, is a section designer in _Newsday's editorial art department. blank">What's Real Here? at Newsday
As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck Top Chef Finale Spoiled AGAIN and was later trained at Italy's Lorenzo de'Medici Great Neck To Great Chef and at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). He attended the CIA at the same time as runner-up _Marcel Vigneron.
Hall currently lives in New York City.
