Tonight, “Top Chef” had its final face-off of the season, and it was one that was fairly intense until the very end. Jeremy Ford started off the season extremely strong, but we admit that a few weeks before the finale, we were worried about his long-term odds of sticking around this season. Meanwhile, Amar Santana […]
Tomorrow night’s finale of “Top Chef: California” is certainly going to be interesting. Another word we would use for it? Unexpected. One of the more interesting facets of this series is that it is effectively filmed in two separate bunches, with the final round in Las Vegas shot some period of time after the first […]
One of the great things about “Top Chef” as a series is the even-handedness in which the show is edited sometimes. You think you know the winner, and then they are sent home. Then, you think that you know the chefs who are on the outs, and they find a way to come surging back. […]
Thursday night’s all-new episode of “Top Chef” may be the most shocking of the season, and not just because of the person who went home. It was also the way in which they left. To us, Kwame is the sort of young wunderkind who does everything that he can to prepare for a competition like […]
Thursday night’s “Top Chef” episode may have been one of our favorites of the entire season, and there are a pretty wide array of reasons for that. Let’s start just with the concept itself: We always love it when the show chooses to press creativity and variety more so than everyone making one particular food. […]
Thursday night’s new episode of “Top Chef” has to go down as one of the most predictable, and if not the worst, Restaurant Wars in the history of the show. It was more of a Restaurant Slaughter than a War of Attrition; District LA may as well have waved a white flag the moment that […]
We’re going to start this “Top Chef: California” review off with what may be a pretty controversial opinion to some people out there: We really don’t like Restaurant Wars nearly as much as the average person. It transforms the show into something that is almost skill-based into something more akin to “The Apprentice” where you have […]
We have to say that last Thursday’s episode of “Top Chef: California” was certainly a culinary result few saw coming. If you told us a week ago that potential favorite Chad was gone while Phillip won the Elimination Challenge, we would have said you’re watching a different show. What this episode showed was with the […]
A terribly sad thing happened on Thursday night’s new episode of “Top Chef“: We risked losing someone as glorious as Isaac from the season. After coining the episode title in “Bananaise,” he almost went home after his challenge pairing a dish with a specialty craft beer went south. As much as we love Isaac and […]
“Top Chef: California” had almost everything that you could possibly hope for in its new episode Thursday night: There were funny moments, sentimental ones (how can you not get emotional watching Padma Lakshmi marry 25 same-sex couples at once?), and also some great, chaotic ones that remind us of why this is excellent reality television. […]
