Neil Patrick Harris

Bravo has finally taken the lid off "Top Chef Masters." The cooking competition spinoff — this one featuring "world-renowned chefs" — will premiere June 10 at 10 p.m. and has recruited a star-studded lineup of guest judges.

They include Neil Patrick Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Morgan Spurlock, "Lost" writers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, "Flipping Out’s" Jeff Lewis, and all of the previous "Top Chef" winners. Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and Gail Simmons will also appear.

With the large number of competitors, producers have tweaked the format of the original series. From Bravo’s press release:

In each episode, money will be at stake for the chefs, with the winners of eliminations being awarded cash donations for their charities. The first six episodes will consist of four chefs competing against each other to name one winner. The six winners of each episode will then meet up for the final four weeks when one person will get eliminated each episode until the finale where one winner is crowned Top Chef Master. The winning chef will receive $100,000 for the charity of his or her choice.

The following are the 24 contestants competing (hometown chefs in bold):

 Rick Bayless – Frontera Grill, Chicago

 Wilo Benet – Pikayo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 John Besh – Restaurant August, New Orleansv
 Graham Elliot Bowles – Graham Elliot Restaurant, Chicago

 Michael Chiarello – Bottega Restaurant, Yountville, Calif.

 Michael Cimarusti – Providence, Los Angeles

 Wylie Dufresne – wd 50, New York

 Elizabeth Falkner – Orson, San Francisco

 Hubert Keller – Fleur de Lys, San Francisco

 Christopher Lee – Aureole, New York

 Ludo Lefebvre – Ludo Bites, Los Angeles

 Anita Lo – Annisa, New York

 Tim Love – The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, Fort Worth, Texas

 Rick Moonen – Rick Moonen’s RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

 Nils Noren – French Culinary Institute, New York

 Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson – Frasca Food & Wine, Boulder, Colo.

 Cindy Pawlcyn – Mustards Grill, Napa Valley, Calif.

 Mark Peel – Campanile, Los Angeles

 Douglas Rodriguez – Alma de Cuba, Philadelphia

 Michael Schlow – Radius Restaurant, Boston

 Art Smith – Table Fifty-Two, Chicago

 Suzanne Tracht – Jar, Los Angeles

 Jonathan Waxman – Barbuto, New York

 Roy Yamaguchi – Roy’s Restaurants, San Diego

"On ’Top Chef,’ the biggest names in the industry join us as guests to pass judgment on the cheftestants," said executive producer Dan Cutforth. "Now we’ll get to see how they handle equally tough challenges."

Food journalist Kelly Choi will host "Masters." New York Magazine food critic Gael Greene, Saveur magazine Editor in Chief James Oseland and British food critic Jay Rayner will judge.