Top Chef All-Stars

^^^

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?

Wtf?

Jen had her nervous breakdown early this season, wow.

Bitching about the challenge was super dumb - Tom said specifically that it was meat/products only (what would have been the point of the challenge if one team just got completely hosed?!). I liked one the one chef who said with authority that T-Rex 'ate both,' which I'm pretty sure is wrong.

bourdain to chefs: learn from Omar! it's all in the Game!

http://www.bravotv.com/media/u13/top-chef-all-stars-season-8-blog-bourdain-802-omar.jpg

http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef/season-8/blogs/anthony-bourdain/all-in-the-game

lol

^^^^ The Wire spoilers

Nice straight forward challenges this episode. I was glad to see Dale win if only because he reminds me so much of an old friend mine.

*of mine.

Yeah I liked this ep. That Quickfire challenge was crazy! And I loved the Elimination Challenge, it was cool to see all the chefs try to embrace the challenge. I'm glad Dale won...in behind the giant chip on his shoulder he seems pretty likeable and dedicated.

He was just really smart. Everybody who lost lost because they were confronted by these uber-chefs and could only think the way to win was to emulate their style and do something really ambitious. Then Dale comes out and says "I can't be WD" so he does his own food reflecting on aspects of WD50. And his dish looked totally awesome.

I ate at WD50 once, pretty good...I had some kind of carbonated bourbon. A drink that wasn't bourbon mixed with soda, but carbonated bourbon.

wow, that sounds cool. Would love to eat at WD50 one day. Wiley has always been my favorite guest judge on TC.

Lol @ Bourdain saying Stephen's dished tasted like a head shop. I'm glad he's gone. I'm honestly surprised he stayed as long as he did, he truly seems completely useless in facets of chef-ing.

*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!