Voting in Eater's fourth annual Hottest Chefs Competition continues today, with the sixth heat of the first round. Today Hong Thaimee of the just opened East Village Thai restaurant Ngam faces off against Ciano's Shea Gallante, pastry chef Julie Elkind of the BLT restaurants, and Blue Smoke BPC's Jeff Held.
The victor of this heat will face the winners of the other seven first round battles, including Junoon's Vikas Khanna, Wong's Blake Joyal, former Top Cheffer Ashley Merriman, King's Francis Derby, Michael Chernow, and yesterday's winner Sarma Melngailis.