Top Chef New York

[erika]

These guys are all gonna crash and burn at restaurant wars.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

my favorite episode

[dave from knoxville]

Isn't Hosea married?

[iAmBaronVonTito]

apparently theyre both linked with significant others, but refuse to stop cuddling on national television.

[Martin]

Also: that subtitled "comfy" in the Leah/Hosea tease for next week was pretty gross.  It's Top Chef, not Top Marathon Love-Making Session!

That was just too much. The cynic's perspective is of course: surely they won't split up the two lovebirds now that they're starting to get it on?

T. Young showed once again that all he's there for is to deliver groan-inducing, pedestrian witticisms - and the way he sort of looks around the room for props as he delivers them is sickening and pathetic. He's not a natural, and he clearly doesn't know food.

Sarah, agree completely about the meat. They butchered it (sorry). I almost gasped when they mentioned how pretty boy Jeff had trimmed the fat off of that fantastic pork meat. What is this, Top Pretty Boy Diet Chef?

I'm rooting for Stefan FinGerSwiss these days.

Fixed. Show some respect.

[franks.]

This has just not been a very good season of Top Chef, I don't think. Beyond Toby Young there's no real villain. They need to stop shopping at Whole Foods. They're in New York City. There are so many great places to shop for food! I don't get it.

[samir]

Nobody's mentioning Toby's line about fucking some pork?

[Sarah]

That was very tasteful.

Martin, thank you.  How could I have forgotten his true name?

One more thing:  I did like Ariane's crack about Hosea in her exit interview.  The contempt in her voice was lovely.

[senorcorazon]

They need to stop shopping at Whole Foods. They're in New York City. There are so many great places to shop for food! I don't get it.

EXACTLY. The Whole Foods is across the street from a fantastic greenmarket in Union Square and it's the middle of summer when they're filming, and yet, NOT ONCE do they cross the street. C'mon guys, it's Top Chef, not Top-Corporate-Sponsorship-Shopping. Eh? EH?!
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I never thought I'd say this but I miss you Gail.

This weekend, Wife and I are picking up a car from the parking lot behind the Top Chef apartments. We will pour out a little Diet Dr. Pepper for Ariane.

[dave from knoxville]

They need to stop shopping at Whole Foods. They're in New York City. There are so many great places to shop for food! I don't get it.

Don't you suspect it's an endorsement deal?

I kind of suspect something like this in season 12.

Melissa Rivers: Chefs, here's today's challenge. Using only the ingredients on the table, seasoned and breaded chicken strips, whipped potatoes, brown gravy, Kraft mild shredded cheese, and fourteen pounds of table salt, construct a single-bowl entree. We will serve it at tonight's VFW Hall 493 weekly picnic, where we will be joined by Chef Bobby Flay and our celebrity guests Trig Palin and Olivia Munn. We will be raising money to help those less fortunate among us pay for the mandatory US flag lapel pins now required as President Palin's first formal executive action, so make that salt talk!

[pscan]

They need to stop shopping at Whole Foods. They're in New York City. There are so many great places to shop for food! I don't get it.

EXACTLY. The Whole Foods is across the street from a fantastic greenmarket in Union Square and it's the middle of summer when they're filming, and yet, NOT ONCE do they cross the street. C'mon guys, it's Top Chef, not Top-Corporate-Sponsorship-Shopping. Eh? EH?!

Actually, it's the Whole Foods at Houston and Chrystie, AKA the Bowery Whole Foods. So your argument falls apart completely!

[Sarah]

I just remembered something else from this week's show that annoyed me:  Describing her team's dishes to the people at the lunch table, Jamie says the ravioli were "house-made."   First of all, "house" in this context is stupid.  Second, of course the damn ravioli were freshly made.

[senorcorazon]

They need to stop shopping at Whole Foods. They're in New York City. There are so many great places to shop for food! I don't get it.

EXACTLY. The Whole Foods is across the street from a fantastic greenmarket in Union Square and it's the middle of summer when they're filming, and yet, NOT ONCE do they cross the street. C'mon guys, it's Top Chef, not Top-Corporate-Sponsorship-Shopping. Eh? EH?!

Actually, it's the Whole Foods at Houston and Chrystie, AKA the Bowery Whole Foods. So your argument falls apart completely!

Quiet, you!

[Andy]

I was a couple of weeks behind and I've given up on going through the whole thread. 

Stefan is my favorite.

Carla looks and sounds like a muppet.

There are some boring people on this version.  Every week when they're doing the quick fire there are at least 3 people where I say to myself "holy shit, that guy is still here?"

[Kim Kelly]

Carla really does look and sound like a muppet. What is it with reality show contestants and their tendency to resemble walking, talking muppets?



In fairness, Carla isn't trashy like New York, and she doesn't wear a shitty weave, and she probably has a better singing voice. Also, she doesn't look like Janice or any other member of the Electric Mayhem.