Top Chef All-Stars

haha bourdain's mea culpa is almost harsher than his comments on the show

I mean, look at that thing. Its supreme ugliness only reinforced and highlighted by its presentation on paper, bringing to mind immediately and inevitably, the command oft directed at a bad puppy: "Go on the paper! The paper!!"

bourdain would prolly kick fabio's ass tho

and wtf is so great abt jen? she's lame dudes

can't wait to see dale punching shit and yelling again

i missed season 6, and yeah, i don't get what's so great about Jen.

seems like Elia totally deserved to go home but i love her! sad

oh wait Elia got bounced ALREADY

boo

Jen works for Eric Ripert, which gives her automatic cred in my book. And I thought she was the #1 contender halfway through her season, before she started cracking under the pressure.

Love how everyone still hates Marcel's guts.

I love Jen because she seems like a serious alcoholic and yet has a cool job.

http://eater.com/uploads/IMAGEisabellaslap.gif

Jen has balls of steel & she rocks fuiud

^^^

Love how everyone still hates Marcel's guts.

― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Thursday, December 2, 2010 2:00 PM (1 hour ago)

Having hair like Wolverine just screams douchebag in my book.

Marcel's a tool but I like him more than Stephen.

Elia made me sad. I think that maybe since she didn't think anything was wrong with her dish in the first place, she didn't re-work it smartly enough. Plus maybe there's the fact that her losing dish didn't kick her ass like, say Spike's scallops did. Or Dale's butterscotch nightmare. Or poor Blais and his flameout. You know? She didn't feel like the dish defined her as some kind of failure so she didn't think she had anything to prove except that she can cook. I dunno. Love her.
LOVED seeing that old clip of her shaving her head btw.

in my dream world, jen would hire mike, tre, carla, and the bearded southern guy from season 5 in the awesomest restaurant ever

Wtf is stephen even doing on this show? Dude looks like he hasnt even been in a kitchen since season one. All these other people are like working chefs and then u have this douche taking up space just waiting to get bounced.

court jester?

It seems like they've brought him back for something every season. Maybe he has naked pictures of Tom.

The only restaurant I can picture Stephen working in is a theatre restaurant

i didn't like how they changed the whole dynamic of the two seatings by not telling the first group that the others were watching.

and bullshit to giving a group of 4 chefs imunity in the quickfire

Totally disagree about the listening thing.

I would be more upset about the immunity thing if any of the four chefs had done a bad job.

Only on a season of incredibly talented chefs, Jen was made to seem weak in comparison. Put her on any other season and she waltzes into the final.

The collective resumes of the chefs of TC Season 6 were more impressive than the TC masters season 2! I mean Tom Collichio admitted it felt weird to be judging the Voltaggio brothers' food because both of them were far higher regarded critically than his food (which to be fair is commercialized dreck).

i was under the impression that other chefs really respected Collichio's food

Guys I really miss season 6. I remember when I couldn't STAND Mike at first, but now on the All Stars I'm all, "Oh Mike you lovable scamp."

I know! It's weird.

I think it helps cuz that he is the only one with jen from that season

and is it me or did most of the chefs gain like 20 lbs?

well there were some weight fluctuations in both directions tbh

the quickfire where they cook against tom might be pretty interesting

the previews for the season rest of the season looked pretty great in general

Psyched for Sesame Street!

It's interesting how most of the chefs (at least the dudes anyway) are pretty overweight, but the dessert chefs on the last show were all really thin. Maybe the stress of being a head chef promotes a lot of comfort eating and heavy drinking.

Although Richard looks like he's lost about 30 pounds.

he looked slightly unhealthy i thought

Yeah Blais is looking gaunt. Spike has bulked up.

Jamie looks like she's dropped a few pounds, too.

Maybe the stress of being a head chef promotes a lot of comfort eating and heavy drinking.

jamie is a rock star coming in with the giant aviators on

kinda wish they had brought back Kiwi Mark so that there could be more drunk bathtub lols with him & Spike.

oh well

apparently Kiwi Mark cooks in my nabe. I've eaten there once. not a very fancy place.

He always seemed more like a backpacker than a chef, like he'd just wandered onto the set & decided to hang

Some stupid ass challenges imo

this episode has been awful

i guess the challenge was slightly better since they really stuck hard to the "only meat" thing, but still

haha wow. Jen going ham at judges table.

"welcome to Jen All-Stars"

RIP

kinda don't even want to watch the rest of the season now...

booooo hooooo hooooooo, I wuz robbed, cuss cuss cuss

ugh

damn those little bits of egg must have been completely atrocious

like, vs. a horrifically salty sauce? really?

coulda been editing tricks but after Tom's comments on Mike's first two dishes I thought Mike was winning for sure

― dmr, Thursday, March 31, 2011 6:16 PM (3 hours ago)

And then the editing on the judging table made Tom look all gung-ho about Richard: "that was until I tasted Richard's fish"

I thought Mike won that second dish for sure. I was rooting for Mike (all alone at my house). His dick moves earlier this season were sort of tame. I liked how Mike was always jovial and had that hint of sensitivity (femininity). I liked how he chose not to make a big deal out of everything (total opposite of Richard in that way); of course he still played the game and tried to say everything the judges wanted to hear. I like that he has such high self-esteem - he did prove himself to be a great chef. Mike rooting for Jen as one of the fan favorites was probably just because he's friends with her, and was probably drinking with her before that live segment started (his giggling got tiresome but I can excuse joviality).

I'm sure the producers of Top Chef wanted Richard to win too. They would be the ultimate tie-breaker

sort of like how on the season finales of American Race the least liked team always gets the shittiest cab driver. surprise surprise

sensitivity (femininity)

on the after-show a viewer question asked Richard "who would you battle next?" and he was like, "Michael Voltaggio"

thought Andy Cohen was gonna get out his blackberry on set start emailing Michael V with his show proposal

The second episode of Marcel's quantum cooking show was a lot better than the first one. He is more likable when he is in his element - which includes him being the boss. He threw a pretty great anniversary party on the second episode. He gave shit to the lady he was working for at the end of second episode. I understood why - unlike on top chef. Ultimately, his show gives me more respect for Marcel but I'm not interested enough in Marcel or quantum cooking to put this on my series manager.

Gonna have to read this whole thread tomorrow. I started with this series and it's the first I've watched.

Guess that technically spoiled like all seven seasons before it. Oops.

i’m almost through World All Stars (currently streaming on Peacock) — and after so many seasons of this series i’m surprised that it might be one of my favorites overall? super good

the stories of all the different chefs, the sharing of cultures, the insane high level of skill plus the intensity of the challenges (holy shit @ the beef wellington challenge) … it’s so good. and so many favorite contestants , new and old: love begoña from spain, victoire from italy, tom from germany, gabri from mexico, buddha from houston and my alltime top chef boyfriend amar from cali <3

the friendship between aman and ali was so cute

it’s a lot of fun & well worth it if you like the series

*amar

agreed, I thought my interest in TC might be waning but this season really hit. apparently Padma’s leaving the show and knowing that made the season finale even more touching

Top Chef: Wisconsin is out with new host Kristen Kish.

Looking forward to Wisconsin getting the TC treatment. Cheese challenge, what else?

yeah i’m interested to see Kristin hosting!