All season long, we’ve made it no secret that “Around the World in 80 Plates” has been one of our favorite reality show hybrids on TV. It’s part “Top Chef,” part “Amazing Race,” and even a little bit of “Survivor” … but what we like about it the most is that you’re learning a little bit about […]
Admittedly, we are a day or so behind when it comes to this look at “Around the World in 80 Plates,” but we have to praise the show for giving us what looks to be a pretty great final three for a pretty great first season. Wednesday night’s episode took us to another new continent […]
Fans of “Top Chef” are already well aware of what happens when a contestant wins immunity — they often don’t feel the same sense of urgency that they would otherwise during later challenge, and this proves to be rather problematic when you are working together as a team. This happened almost precisely on Wednesday night’s […]
The last time we saw Tuscany featured on a reality TV show, it was when Snooki and JWoww got into a shouting match during a wine tour on season 4 of “Jersey Shore.” With that in mind, it’s safe to say that “Around the World in 80 Plates” ended up doing the region far more […]
With us currently in the middle of a transition between spring and summer TV, we’re happy that “Around the World in 80 Plates” is there. It’s a show that few people are talking about, but it’s also the best new reality competition of the year. Are there some problems? Sure — we’d love to see […]
Three episodes in to “Around the World in 80 Plates,” and we are still unsure that there is a better program out there when it comes to reality competitions. It’s still fun, still fast-paced, and it manages to actually teach you just as much (if not more) about the locations than “The Amazing Race.” This […]
Two episodes in, we admit that “Around the World in 80 Plates” is already among our list of favorite reality competitions on TV. As we said last week, it has all of the elements of a great competition show in one place — tasty food, racing around, and eliminating people by stabbing them in the […]
When “Around the World with 80 Plates” was first announced, we were almost immediately excited in that there were elements of a number of established reality hits. Basically, the concept was a cooking competition that borrowed from “Top Chef,” while at the same time combining the race element of “The Amazing Race” along with the […]
