birth_place name article_title birth_name television
chicago , illinois u.s. dale levitski dale levitski
 dale levitski top chef , season 3 and season 8
dale levitski

dale levitski is a self-taught chicago chef who competed on top chef season 3 and was one of the runners-up to hung huynh along with casey thompson .
after finishing as a runner up in top chef season 3 , levitski was asked to compete again on top chef season 8 among the all-stars .
he was eliminated in the third episode .
after his loss on top chef it took levitski 18 months to get going on his next project .
`` but he rebounded to open sprout in 2009 , garnering praise , three stars from the chicago tribune and a semifinalist nod from the james beard foundation for best chef : midwest , something that might be considered a coup considering the glut of competition in the brutally tough chicago-centric category . ''
a year after sprout opened the restaurant received a three star rating from the chicago tribune and also was named by chicago magazine as a best restaurant .
levitski also opened a bistro called frog n ' snail .
levitski started to have failing health due to the stress of the two restaurants .
he decided to leave chicago , and the two restaurants closed after his departure .
levitski moved from chicago to nashville , tennessee and opened a new restaurant called sinema .
the venue for the new restaurant is the old melrose theater .
levitski `` has been tied to three different best new restaurant awards by chicago magazine and has cooked twice at the james beard house by invitation . ''
