Top Chef Chicago

[joanna]

petulant. i fully expect that when she's finally kicked off, she's going to pout and throw things around a la paul rudd in wet hot american summer.

[Andy]

ok, I just watched this weeks show.   it's bullshit that Dale went home.

[Laurie]

no one has mentioned butterscotch scallops yet? dude lost his mind, i'm convinced of it.

Actually, there's a miso-butterscotch pork belly at Tailor in New York, and it's quite good. Dale just didn't execute it very well. Tailor is another one of those restaurants that plays with sweet & savory. I loved it so much that I went there twice during one New York vacay. I think I preferred the root beer short ribs with vanilla smoked carrots.

[joanna]

that makes much more sense for pork because red meat works well with sweet-ish sauces, like a port wine reduction. but his butterscotch looked like dessert, and scallops are best complemented with delicate flavors. but whatever.

so what i'm saying is that you're right that he executed it wrong. dead wrong. disgusting.

[Laurie]

I don't know, I recently had mussels in a sweet cream sauce. It was really good.

[jbissell]

I don't know why the final 4 couldn't have just been a top 3 like in season 1. Lisa clearly does not belong anywhere near the end.

[Stan]

I don't know why the final 4 couldn't have just been a top 3 like in season 1. Lisa clearly does not belong anywhere near the end.

 Seriously, a happy ending for me would have been fisticuffs between Lisa and Spike in front of the judges at the end, resulting in disqualification for both. Keep making that angry Rosie O'Donnell face Lisa, see where that gets you.

[Omar]

Say what you will about Spike's culinary skills, but the guy really knows how to take advantage of those Quickfire victories!

I'd like to think they planted those frozen scallops to see if this dope would bite.

[Sarah]

Turns out I disliked Spike more than I dislike Lisa, because my pleasure at seeing the back of him more than outweighed my sorrow at knowing she'd be sticking around for another week.  Maybe it's because she was less obnoxious in this latest episode, anyway (maybe the absence of Dale sweetened her).  Or perhaps I just feel sort of sorry for her now, since there's no way in hell she can win and she has to know it. 

[Sarah]

Seriously, a happy ending for me would have been fisticuffs between Lisa and Spike in front of the judges at the end, resulting in disqualification for both.

Lisa would kick Spike's ass, except he'd play dirty.

[Laurie]

Guys, Spike says he has "a lot of strive." !!

Hoo boy.

I really wish they sent both of them packing. How dare Lisa raise her stupid pierced eyebrows at Colicchio.

ALSO, HER HAIR!! In the preview. Oh wow. Did someone get there before I did and took a weed whacker to her head? I'm jealous.

[Omar]

Guys, Spike says he has "a lot of strife." !!

I thought he said "strive," which is still odd since it's not a noun.

[Sarah]

Yeah, that's what I heard, too, Omar.

[Laurie]

Sorry, you're right! I mistyped!

He has "a lot of strive." And I rewound and listened and said, "That's a verb, son."

[Martin]

As always, I'm a couple of hours behind (stupid time diff!), and as always, I agree with everybody. Thank dog the three real chefs made it; if any one of them would've missed out on the final I would've turned this place into a carwash. And I like my apartment fine.