Top Chef!!!

[foxmonkey]

The restaurants looked much better this time around (obviously, with a designer's input!), especially Restaurant April. Loved the creamy colors and the stenciled walls.

Okay, quickfire. What the hell was Casey thinking, chopping onions as if it mattered what they looked like? Speed was of the essence, and she's dicing and chopping like a 90 year old woman with arthritic elbows and prosthetic hands. JEEBUS! My knife skills are for squat and I'm pretty sure I could dice five onions a little more quickly than that.

Padma's dress...gorgeous color! Very creamy pale greenish turquoise. Sometimes I love the way she talks and other times it drives me bats. All draggy and slighty slurred, like the novocaine's wearing off. At one point, it looked as though she'd dressed up her arm scar with a little gold paint or something, but that's probably the crack talking.

Eeeeep! I think Tre's down for the count, which is too bad. He's a class act, and I hate to lose him. If he's kicked, I won't have a clear favorite to win. I'd have to go with...Hung, I think, though he can be incredibly annoying (Hello, not tasting something in a tasting competition, just going on sight? I laughed when his ass was wrong).

Commercial break -- Tim Gunn's new show! I can't wait! I wish I were a gay man so that Tim Gunn could be one of my gentleman callers. ::le sigh:: I love Tim Gunn.

No! Tre lost, dammit! I knew it. I'd have canned either Bryan or CJ, the bastiges. Crap. I guess I'll have to put my money on Hung now, though I'm pretty sure he won't win. Also, I get physically ill when I see sweat drops dangling from the end of Howie's nose. Why does he not wear a headband? Why hasn't anyone mentioned it!?

Tre, going out like a man and a true gentleman. What an exit interview! Elvis has left the building. ::sniff::

I need a food icon.

Comments

[gilded_lady]

But you know, they couldn't really not-get rid of Tre.

1. The bread pudding wasn't really a bread pudding.
2. His beef tenderloin dish wasn't original the first time around.
3. His salmon dish completely bombed.
4. He didn't run his kitchen the way an executive chef should have.

The sum of his errors was so great that it just seemed like he's not quite ready to be an executive chef yet.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

But you know, they couldn't really not-get rid of Tre. [snip] The sum of his errors was so great that it just seemed like he's not quite ready to be an executive chef yet.

I know, you're right. ::sniff:: Still...he was so cute when he smiled! Those dimples!

I'm glad that he won a trip to Italy, at least. I think Chef Tom is the one who said it, the team suffered from over-confidence. I think I'd still have picked Bryan or CJ's ass to toss on the fire, though. Maybe. ::grumbles::

[gilded_lady]

I agree--it's just like Howie suggest: the other team saw themselves as the Dream Team to the Dale's Bad News Bears and they suffered for it.

All the judges said that Tre was unquestionable the right choice to cut, but that it still wasn't easy to do so.