Top Chef's first female winner, Stephanie Izard, opened her award-winning restaurants — Girl and the Goat, Little Goat Diner, and Duck Duck Goat — all in Chicago, with another restaurant on the way. She's put out two books (one in 2011 and another in 2018). She even defeated some of the most well-known names in the food world (Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, and Masaharu Morimoto) to win Iron Chef Gauntlet in 2017.