Ahhh, 2006: Tom Cruise and Katy Holmes were happy newlyweds, CNN was praising MySpace as a website that was "redefining who makes entertainment" (LOL), and Borat was still a thing.

It was also the year that Top Chef returned to Los Angeles for it's second season—and in honor of our revelation about the Season 12 host city this morning, we started digging through the archives and found this: the most amazing picture of OG Hosts Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons, which is giving us serious Law & Order vibes (in the best way possible).