Award-Winning Chef Alex Belew Brings the Fire to Season 21 of Hell’s Kitchen

NASHVILLE, TN (September 7, 2022)...Hell’s Kitchen has officially announced the cast of their newly branded “Battle of the Ages” competition for Season 21. For the first time in the history of the show, contestants have been divided by age: The Well-Seasoned 40-Somethings (Blue Team) VS The Fresh Up-And-Coming 20-Somethings (Red Team). Hailing from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Chef Alex Belew is batting for the Blue Team. 

Belew has already established a name for himself, winning local and regional culinary competitions throughout the South. He was selected the “fan favorite” at the Chef’s Taste Challenge in New Orleans in 2017, won the 2018 Charity Chopped in the 'Boro fundraising contest, and won the 2014 KC steak cookoff. He also took home top honors twice at the annual Taste of Elegance contest, and his first restaurant, Dallas & Jane, quickly garnered acclaim and was voted the Best Restaurant in Rutherford County by Eater Nashville and the local Firefly Awards.

Catch Chef Alex on The Season 21 Premiere of "Hell’s Kitchen: Battle of the Ages”, Thursday, September 29th at 8/7c on FOX. 

ABOUT ALEX BELEW

Chef Alex Belew grew up in the South, where food is the heart of the home. His culinary fundamentals were built at The Art Institute of Tennessee in Nashville, where he graduated with Honors with a Culinary Arts degree. Intrigued by creating an in-home dining experience to rival in-restaurant dining, Alex Belew Catering was established in 2007. Belew stepped away from the commercial kitchen in 2012 to instruct high school students in Middle Tennessee, teaching knife skills, meat cutting, molecular gastronomy (food science), and nutrition. He created the top culinary program in the state, and his students won the prestigious NRA Prostart Championship in 2014. Belew’s first restaurant, the award-winning Dallas & Jane, opened in 2018 in Murfreesboro. After originally being rejected from Hell’s Kitchen for being “too nice” in 2013,  Belew auditioned again in 2021 and was selected to appear on the 21st season of the show airing in 2022.