Once she finished her time at the Verbena Restaurant and Courtyard Garden, Amanda traveled to Italy and France. She stayed in Paris, France for a short while. During her time there she worked at the L'Arpège, in 1999. The restaurant had received three Michelin Guide stars in 1996 and maintains them to this day. Apart from that, it was voted in 2011 to The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant list as the nineteenth best restaurant in the world. Amanda worked under the chef and restaurant owner Alain Passard.

Return to the USA

After her experience in Paris, she went back to the United States. In 2003, she entered into a partnership with restaurant consultant Godfrey Polistina and together they opened the Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria restaurant. The restaurant is located in the Upper West Side of New York City, New York. The establishment serves American-Italian food. She was chef de cuisine there. She left the Cesca and took a position at The Harrison after. At the seasonal modern American restaurant, she was an executive chef. She worked there until 2010 when the owner, Jimmy Bradley, returned to take his position as chef. Four years after, she took the position of executive chef at the Empire Diner in Manhattan, New York. The place was a vogue and retro diner restaurant. She worked there for only a year.

Television Career

Amanda became famous mostly because of her appearances on various TV shows. Her TV resume ranges from television chef to a reality show competitor. She appeared on the Martha Stewart Show in 2009. She was also a judge for Chopped, a culinary game show, a year after her appearance on Martha Stewart Show.

She was a competitor on Iron Chef during its second season. On the show, she lost against Bobby Flay. The competition on Iron Chef is intense because cooks are expected to churn out delicious dishes under a time limit. There was also challenges to spice things up and make things harder for the chefs. Sometimes they had to make a whole meal with just a single ingredient. Viewers loved the show because they were able to see how creative chefs could get. Cooking was finally seen as an art form because the chefs were able to display their skills. She returned to the show in 2012, during its fifth season. Once again, she lost and ended up in fourth place when she was defeated by Alex Guarnaschelli.

In 2015, she began hosting American Diner Revival on the Food Network alongside with cohost Ty Pennington. Amanda was able to have a strong TV career because of her experience as a chef around the world. TV producers and fans trusted her expertise because she had already proven herself in the real world as a top chef. Amanda’s net worth is currently about 3 million dollars.