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Top Chef Season 5’s finale featured the trio of Stefan, Carla, and Hosea going head to head, simply creating their best meals for the panel of judges. Stefan dominated his way to the finals, Carla picked up serious momentum, and Hosea had been steady all season.
But to finish off this season of Top Chef, it [...]
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With 8 Top Chef contestants remaining, it was time for the popular Restaurant Wars challenge. Sunset Lounge led by Leah up against Radhika’s Sahana.
Both restaurants struggled, but in the end, the Europeans, Stefan and Fabio, saved the Sunset Lounge. Fabio worked the front of the restaurant as only he could while Stefan continued his dominance, [...]
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Episode 8 of Top Chef was somewhat of a shocker. Lessons learned down on the farm, respect your ingredients (and proteins) and past performance means nothing.
For these two reasons, Ariane was ousted after mangling her team’s lamb dish. Tom Colicchio presented his philosophy of cooking, stressing the respect chefs show their ingredients. Ariane, he felt, [...]
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Those were Gene Villiatora’s parting words on Top Chef as the Hawaii-raised chef didn’t make it past Week 7. Throughout the competition, Gene was a lucky survivor, advancing through each challenge doing it his way. And in Week 7, Gene, for better or for worse, stuck to his roots and made a questionable fish dish [...]
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What can I say, but Top Chef contestant Gene is lucky. For the past two weeks, the Hawaii-raised chef has been in the bottom three but has managed to fight off elimination.
In Episode 5, Gail’s Wedding Shower, Gene took the lead role for his “New-themed” team and went with a surf and [...]
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After reading about Top Chef contestant Gene Villiatora’s self-taught cooking skills, I figured he wouldn’t last long in the fierce competition. To excel in Top Chef, you need skill, creativity, and a solid foundation in cooking. Unlike most of the other competing chefs, Gene has no formal culinary training. Something that will [...]
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The Top Chef judges sometimes have to punish their palates with the creations of the Top Chef contestants. Season 5, Episode 2 featured just that as Ariane’s dessert was a “little too sweet” for Padma. How sweet is that? Watch and find out!
Amazingly, Ariane was not the one sent home.
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Props out to Eugene “Gene” Villiatora for representing Hawaii in Season 5 of Top Chef. Although born and raised in Hawaii, the self-taught Gene is doing his thing in Vegas, the home away from home for Hawaii residents.
Just based purely on superficial looks, I woulda never thought Gene was a local boy but whatever. [...]
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Pulpconnection coverage of Top Chef Chicago, Season 4.
A Safe End for Top Chef Chicago
Top Chef Top Three or Two?
Spiked at the Top Chef Finals
Asian Jordan Out on Top Chef
Call Security on Top Chef
War on Top Chef
No More California Flair on Top Chef Chicago
Top Chef Gettin’ Some Heat
Top Chef Chicago is Unmemorable
No Effen Flava on Top [...]
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The stage was set for a tumultuous ending for Top Chef Chicago. The top three finalists of Richard Blais, Lisa Fernandes, and Stephanie Izard drew some controversy, namely with Lisa’s selection over Antonia. But in the end, the rock solid Stephanie was named Top Chef. Watch as the winner is announced.
Stephanie’s win [...]
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The Top Chef top four were whittled down to three in the start of the finals in Puerto Rico. The finals picks up months later with the four top chefs reuniting for the showdown. All I can say is that they were livin’ large during the time off. Most of them picked [...]
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And then there were four, four finalists for Season 4 of Top Chef. Who are the four going to Puerto Rico? Stephanie, Richard, Antonia, and lastly, Lisa. The controversial but survivalist Spike was ousted in the last competition before the finals.
I got to admit that Spike knew how to play the game. [...]
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The return of Restaurant Wars on Top Chef brought about a big loss with the elimination of Dale, the only Asian on the show. As Executive Chef of Mai Buddha, Dale was dismissed for his failure to bring together a team and deliver great dishes. Even though the Asian fusion restaurant had the [...]
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The playa hatin’ goes on on Top Chef. This year’s chefs pretty much hate each other. Only Stephanie and Antonia seem level headed, but they’re also pretty boring. Richard is just quirky.
This week, Andrew, the guy who swears a ton, was sent home doing a healthy, faux sushi roll for Chicago cops. [...]
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The perennial favorite Top Chef challenge, Restaurant Wars, got a change up this season, converting to Wedding Wars. Top Chef teams catered wedding dishes according to the tastes of the bride and groom, but for the groom’s team, Wedding Wars broke down into flat out war.
The team of Dale, Lisa, Nikki, and Spike never [...]
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The pride of Los Banos, Ryan Scott, was sent packing from Top Chef, eliminated for bringing California flair to a Chicago Bears tailgate party. His non-traditional tailgate dishes didn’t wow the judges, but he did seem to be a fan favorite after working the crowds with his metrosexual charm.
But in the land of da [...]
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Episode 5, The Elements, of Top Chef finally brought some heat to the tepid series although a little awkwardly. The competitions were okay, and all you got to know is that half of the lesbian couple, Zoi, was eliminated. The heated fun came after Zoi was told to pack her knives as tension [...]
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While I am a fan of BravoTV’s Top Chef reality cooking show, this season has been somewhat unmemorable for me. Season 4 is supposed to present the most talented competitors to date, and maybe that’s a related issue? After four episodes (I missed the Zoo Food episode), I can’t really remember the contestants. [...]
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Top Chef Season 4 premiered this week with no effen flava left on the show. Sixteen chefs are going up in 24 challenges and after the first challenge, the flava’s all gone with Nimma packing up her knives. You’ve heard the phrase “variety is the spice of life” but the cast of Season [...]
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While I haven’t seen the premiere episode of Top Chef, Season 4 Chicago, I understand chef Ryan Scott is from the FAT area, specifically Los Banos. Here’s a Fresno Bee article about Ryan Scott on Top Chef.
That’s pretty good if you’ve ever been to Los Banos. I always remember Los Banos as the [...]
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