After winning Top Chef, he owned and ran three restaurants in New York City: Perilla, Kin Shop, and The Marrow.
[2] Dieterle attended West Babylon High School and then studied at the Culinary Institute of America, graduating in 1997.
[5] In a positive 2010 review of Kin Shop in the magazine New York, food critic Adam Platt called Dieterle "the original (and easily most talented) winner" of Top Chef.
[10] In 2016 Dieterle served as a consultant for the AMC TV series Feed the Beast, set at a fictional restaurant.
They met at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado, in 2006, the summer after his winning season on Top Chef.