Open auditions for the show Top Chef are reportedly into their fifth hour over at Canlis. Local notable chefs who showed up hoping to be chosen include Josh Henderson of Skillet, Chester Gerl of Matt's in the Market, Shannon Galusha of Veil (now defunct), and Charles Walpole of Anchovies and Olives (Ethan Stowell's new place on Capitol Hill, not yet open). A Canlis sous chef, Na Kenge, would've had the home-kitchen advantage except that no cooking was required: The auditions involve filling out an application, a group interview, then waiting for call-backs.

The application apparently has lots of purposefully nutty questions such as "What’s your culinary interpretation of the Pied Piper?" This is how television is made.