Last Chance Kitchen 14 review

Tonight, the finale of “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen” arrived on Bravo, and this was a chance to see precisely who COULD be taking a step further to returning to the competition, and cooking for the grand prize in Mexico. Let’s go ahead and get some of the bad news out of the way now […]

Remember when we said before this season of “Top Chef” that the show was making a terrible decision in choosing to put so many returning chefs on the air against a crop of newbies? Tonight’s result was further validation that this season was never exactly fair to a good half of the people in the […]

We’ve seen the trend for many seasons now on “Top Chef” — a contestant gets eliminated in surprising fashion, and then goes over to “Last Chance Kitchen” and starts cleaning up and taking home big wins. So far, Jamie Lynch is the gut who is doing that. He defeated darkhorse winner contender Jim, and last […]

Tonight, “Top Chef” gave you Restaurant Wars, and it was definitely emotional. Like we noted before the episode aired, Katsuji and John are two of the most hot-and-cold chefs on the season. If they’re getting along, they’re getting along great and they’re liable to dominate in the kitchen. If they’re not, it’s basically chaos. At […]

Thursday night’s new episode of “Top Chef” was one that bore witness to one of the gutsiest moves in the history of the show. Jamie Lynch, knowing that his chicken dish was the reason why his team was in danger, opted to give up his immunity. As a result of that, he ended up going […]

One of the things that “Top Chef” does so well is that they completely trick you with their editing. Going into Thursday’s episode, we would have never bet in a million years that we would’ve seen Jim Smith go home, let alone in a sudden-death quickfire. Yet, that is precisely what happened, and on the […]

After another strong of first-time chef eliminations on “Top Chef,” tonight’s new episode featured the departure of Amanda Baumgarten — at least for now. She still has “Last Chance Kitchen” in order to fight for her life in the competition. What also seemed to help her entering tonight’s episode of the web show is that […]

Sometimes, there are decisions on “Top Chef” that are fairly controversial. However, at the same time there are also others that will get you watch the show and almost immediately think “yeah, it’s easy to understand how that happened.” For the end of tonight’s episode, it was more of the latter as we saw the […]

Following tonight’s new episode of “Top Chef,” we had a chance to see what was ultimately a redemption tour for one BJ Smith. He felt that he lost a lot of momentum over the course of the season, and he really didn’t get a chance to get his legs under him. The funny thing that […]

Tonight, “Top Chef: Charleston” delivered what host Padma Lakshmi referred to as the greatest meal that she’s ever had in the history of the show. Everything was really good, and what we ended up see happen was someone in Sam Tablot go home who made it really far on the second season of the show. […]