Kelly Choi

For a few months in 2006, as part of a unique content-sharing arrangement between nyctv and NBC's flagship station WNBC, Eat Out NY and Kelly Choi became popular fixtures of the Tri-State Region's noontime viewing. In 2007 she was invited as a guest judge on the Food Network's Iron Chef, and was selected to host the James Beard Awards, which have been dubbed the "Oscars" of the food and restaurant industry.

Choi made the transition to New York area television by hosting Freckles, a lifestyles program carried by the cable channel Plum TV, which is seen primarily in affluent vacation communities, in this case, the Hamptons in Long Island's Suffolk County. She entered the highly competitive New York City media market upon joining nyctv (subsequently renamed NYC Media), in 2004. Executive producers Arick Wierson and Trevor Scotland initially brought her to the then-new broadcast service to host the pilot episode for Secrets of New York. She has subsequently gone on to host three seasons of the series, nationally distributed by PBS, and developed Eat Out NY, another nyctv program in which, as the host/guide to the city's restaurants, she gained high visibility and popularity.

Kelly Choi (born February 7, 1976) is a Korean-American, Emmy-nominated television personality on NYC Media, the official broadcast service of the City of New York. A former host of Bravo TV's Top Chef spin-off, Top Chef Masters, she has also been presenter of the documentary series Secrets of New York.