Don’t mess with me or I’ll cut you.
1. Spike is depressed that his kiwi brofriend Mark is gone.
2. Can you image being the intern that needs to put all those fork and spoon decals on those knives?
3. With all those hats, Spike must be dating a milliner
4. Dale asks the question I’ve been wondering for weeks: Why is Nikki still here?
5. Stephanie whips mayo like a high priced dominatrix and wins the quickfire challenge. From now on we’ll refer to her as “The Forearm”.
6. Seriously, I don’t care how big a Top Chef groupie you are. You don’t let Top Chef cater your wedding.
7. Andrew and his “culinary boner” proves he’s probably on crystal meth, since he’s all tweaked out about staying up all night.
8. The bride doesn’t want classic catering menu items for her wedding, but she loves “well seasoned steak with mushrooms and blue cheese.”
9. Dole fresh asparagus…mmm, nothing says wedding food like factory farmed produce
10. Nikki doesn’t know how to cook her own recipes, awesome
11. Pre-peeled garlic, sweet, the show has now become Top Second Class Caterer
12. Colicchio talks trash about the groom’s cake, calling it a “battleship”. I like.
13. Well it’s good to know that the co-owner of Galleria Marchetti actually gets married at Galleria Marchetti. I wonder if his new wife is cool with him pimping out their wedding on behalf of the family business?
14. I’ve come to love Dale. He better not go home.
15. Nikki. She gone. Finally.
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Jasmine
1. Best episode of the season by far.
2. Quickfire challenge was incredible. I didn’t start watching TC until late last season, so I missed the relay. When do the first three seasons come out on DVD again?
3. Monkfish, according to its Wikipedia entry, should not be eaten for those who are concerned about sustainability. So did TC do a baddie by the environment?
4. Still not sure why it’s necessary to strip an artichoke like that.
5. Dale’s tantrum? Way better than all of Andrew’s little quips, if only because I don’t like to think of Andrew getting any kind of a boner.
6. My brother Patrick said that Dale was just being Filipino when he went ahead and cooked the majority of his team’s food — doing all the thankless work when his team was slacking. Don’t know that this is Filipino so much as just hustling.
7. That being said, Dale should have said something to his team when he was feeling overtaxed. Because you know Nikki wasn’t saying shit.
8. So yeah, thank goodness Nikki is goodness. She was coasting for far too long, and this challenge just smoked her out. Also, I would have thought an Italian food-loving groom would have inspired her to come up with something special.
9. I’m going to a wedding at Galleria Marchetti over Memorial Day weekend. I may have to sneak into the kitchen and take pictures. Perhaps re-enact moments.
coolV
I think Nikki should have been gone a long time ago. I love how the judges said the ragu was good but the tortellini sucked…..ha ha!!!!!
Stephanie is awesome…..she did a great job, visually, on the cake…..but did I hear wrong when Tom said the judges preferred Lisa’s cake to Stephanie’s? Lisa has a major bad attitude…..either she or Spike need to be next! Those are two chefs I would NEVER work for. How’d they got on the show anyway?
Ryan
Dale is a badass. He does get a little pissy sometimes, but I pretty much agree with everything he has been pissed off about.
I think richard and stephanie have very good attitudes and personalities. They seem like good people to work with.
however, I don’t think bright pink clogs on richard are great.
Barry I. Strum
Considering that there seems to be little if any discussion of food..quality, technique, creativity, etc…but lots of comment on who did what, who’s a pissant, and who needs to get booted from the competition, etc., let me suggest that the folks in TV land graft “Top Chef” into a compounded reality show in which a dozen reality TV-type chefs get to prepare nutritious, attractive, and light meals for a group of morbidly obese adults with the same flair for the real. Judges will critique dishes on the basis of how well the obese [dieting] contestants relate to their dishes in terms of visuakl & taste appeal, motivational aspects, and the aulity of the overall eating experience. The backdrop will be a tropical island, hinting (with correspondingly little subtlety, that the competing cooks will forage in the natural world for nature’s bounty. Donald Trump can be on the critics panel and for comic relief, a parade of long-tarnished former celebrities will provide further inspiration by dancing highly choreographed routines…. causing an aerobic lust among the potential losers.
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