The record right now
Bobby Flay has lost 203 times on Beat Bobby Flay. His record is 340–203 (62.6% win rate) across 543 decided outcomes in 548 aired episodes, as of 2026-09-26.
- Decided = wins + losses. 543 = 340 + 203.
- Pending = aired episodes with no published Round 2 result: 5. Excluded from the win rate, never guessed.
- Inferred = outcomes recorded as Bobby wins without a citation (no published result and no winner coverage weeks after airing): 4. Counted in the 340 wins, tagged
inferredin the episodes file, reverted if a published result contradicts them. - Unique chefs who have beaten him: 202 (203 defeats; Alex Guarnaschelli has 2).
- Most recent defeat: Brooke Williamson with fresh pasta lasagna bolognese (S43E20, aired 2026-08-18).
Cite it
Link to flaystakes.com/data — the URL is stable; the numbers on it update, and the dataset version is the timestamp of the data push you saw (2026-09-26T11:59:40.871Z). Suggested form:
Flaystakes, "Bobby Flay's Beat Bobby Flay record: 340–203," dataset version 2026-09-26T11:59:40.871Z, https://flaystakes.com/data (accessed 2026-10-15). CC BY 4.0.Research, media and licensing requests: custom exports, historical snapshots, fact-checks for a story, or a commercial license for uses CC BY does not cover — email flaystakes@gmail.com with what you need and your deadline.
The record — episodes, outcomes, chefs, dishes, restaurants — is licensed CC BY 4.0: use it, chart it, republish it, with attribution to Flaystakes (flaystakes.com). Recipes are independently generated recreations, not the chefs’ own, and are not part of the licensed record; they appear only in the full site payload (/api/data), which is why that file is not listed as a licensed distribution below.
Download
- defeats.csv — 203 rows: every chef who beat Bobby, the dish, cuisine, season/episode, air date, the sources for that episode, canonical URL.
- episodes.csv — 548 rows: every aired episode with Round 1 challengers, the Round 2 chef and dish, the outcome, whether that outcome is
cited,inferred,unsourced, orunknown, and its sources. - restaurants.csv — one row per chef–restaurant pair (join on
defeat_id), with city and URL. - /api/episodes — the episode ledger as JSON. /api/data is the full site payload (adds stats, changelog, and the unlicensed recipes).
- /api/record — a small JSON summary of the record (wins, losses, decided, win rate, pending, inferred, repeat winners, latest defeat, dataset version) with CORS enabled, for live counters.
CSV files are UTF-8 without a byte-order mark, CRLF line endings, RFC 4180 quoting. Any text cell beginning with =, + or @ is prefixed with an apostrophe so spreadsheets treat it as text.
Field definitions
defeats.csv
id | Stable integer id of the defeat; its URL ends in -<id>. |
chef_name | Winning chef as credited on the episode. |
dish | The Round 2 dish the challenger chose. |
cuisine | Editorial cuisine label used for the site’s cuisine records. |
season / episode | Flaystakes numbering (continuous, matches the episode ledger). Food Network’s own season numbering differs for recent seasons. |
air_date / year | First US air date, ISO 8601; year is the air year. |
sources | Where the episode’s outcome came from, semicolon-separated (same field as episodes.csv). |
episodes.csv
round1_chef_a / _b / round1_winner / round1_dish | The two challengers, who advanced, and the Round 1 ingredient or dish. |
round2_chef / round2_dish | Who faced Bobby and what they cooked. |
outcome | bobby_won, challenger_won, or unknown. |
outcome_basis | cited (at least one source: the airing, an episode database, press), inferred (see above), unsourced (a known outcome whose source was not recorded), or unknown. |
sources | Semicolon-separated source identifiers or URLs for the outcome. |
defeat_url | Present when the challenger won: the defeat’s page. |
restaurants.csv
defeat_id / chef_name | Join keys back to defeats.csv. |
restaurant / location / restaurant_url | One restaurant associated with the chef at time of research; the city as researched; the restaurant’s own site when known. |
Versioning and corrections
The dataset version is its last-updated date (2026-09-26); every change is logged in the changelog with what moved and why. Sources and method are on the methodology page. Spotted an error? Email flaystakes@gmail.com with the season and episode; corrections from chefs and primary sources are prioritized and land within days.
Embed the live record
A badge that always shows the current record and links here:
<a href="https://flaystakes.com/data"><img src="https://flaystakes.com/badge.svg" alt="Bobby Flay's Beat Bobby Flay record: 340–203" width="300" height="44"></a>Prefer numbers? GET https://flaystakes.com/api/record returns JSON with CORS enabled.
Updated 2026-09-26. Bobby’s record: 340–203.