Top Chef - Chicago

Finally, finally I have had a chance to sit down and discuss my thoughts about Top Chef last week. This weekend has gotten away from me and after seeing the re-run of the show for the third time on Bravo, I figured I would go ahead and voice my opinion.

The week started like any other week with Jennifer "doing it for Zoi" and Spike talking about how great he was. Andrew did pipe up and state that he would miss "pretty-boy" (really?) Ryan. As the cheftestants walked into the kitchen the sweets covering all tables was a sure sign of what was to come. The QuickFire this week was to make a "delicious" dessert (Padma's words not mine I wanted a dessert that tastes like crap). The winner of the QuickFire would receive immunity and their recipe would be included in the Top Chef cookbook (nice plug by the way). Richard won (shock) and he wins immunity for the week.

Next up everyone gets dressed because they have been invited to Second City (Improv) for the evening show. While there the actors on stage start taking feelings, food and color words from the audience. Here comes the Elimination Challenge ladies and gentlemen. The cheftestants (got to use the word twice) split into teams of two and have to create a dish inspired by the words from Second City. For example; Richard and Dale (dream team) are asked to create a dish inspired by green...perplexed...Tofu. Andrew and Spike team up and their words are yellow...love...vanilla. Finally Spike will get to make his butternut squash soup. Antonia and Lisa (yuck) are a team and they refuse to follow directions and instead of cooking drunken, polish sausage they create a dish of sea bass (because polish sausage and sea bass are the same thing, right?). The top two teams end up being Dale and Richard (again shock) and Spike and Andrew. Dale and Richard win!



The bottom two teams are Antonia and Lisa and Stephanie and Jennifer. Stephanie and Jennifer had to create a dish out of orange...turned on...asparagus. The explanation that these two had was way too fallic and suggestive. Plus the judges hated it so...Jennifer goes home. No more "doing it for Zoi". I liked Jenn and I enjoyed her humor but she became a little too literal. Do I think it is fair that she goes home and Yucky Lisa and Antonia did not follow directions and they get to stay? No I don't but as the judges stated at least their dish was good. Who is next people? Please let it be Lisa!