Being either team captain or front of the house seems like a bad proposition overall, since you can get kicked for doing a bad job in either but doing a great job just earns you a praise and the best dish is still the one that wins. A strong chef should be glad they don't get either roles and just focus on doing their dish good as even if their team loses or their service was a total debacle they're still safe.

I think Nini’s gone. A pastry chef going down for dessert.

The BBC's Best restaurant in Britain with Gordon Ramsay was as you described. No stupid time restricted madness. If you can find it, it's worth watching. A whole step above any US G.R. show.

Fun restaurant wars non spoiler : the tall bald server working at third coast 100% peed next to me then didn’t wash his hands during service

Ouch. Those servers seemed like they’d never waited on tables before. Brutal.

so much of restaurant wars, the cheftestants and show is focused on dumb things like horrible servers, decor, plating. I get they are trying to emulate a real restaurant but seems like judges go 95%+ on how its cooked anyway. I'd rather it focus more on that than all the peripheral obstacles.

Plating is a pretty big deal as far was serving food to judges, but I agree on the rest


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I think I can recall 1 time the judges actually talked about how the plate was wrong for the dish, never had them complain about what direction the food is facing etc.

My point is the cheftestants spend so much time and effort on things that the judges don't really care about. probably takes away from delivering on the food which is the 95% factor in who wins/loses/goes home

So you mean actual plates, not plating of the dish, which I agree with.


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Taking that even farther, what prevents them from just really focusing all their attention on the judges plates and just half-assing it on the rest. Judges are gonna judge on what they themselves eat.

If the other diners food isn't cooked or plated as carefully, who cares? They aren't using diner feedback in their decision, are they?

Canoe, time to spill. Did you agree with the judges' opinions of the food? Was service really that bad? On a scale of 9.83 - 11.4, how hot is Padma in person?

Seriously. Can’t wait to read that TR.

I’ve got a word doc somewhere but a few notes since I don’t have the TR on my phone. Padma is so much hotter irl than I expected it’s ridiculous. Also a producer chased us down outside to get our comment cards. We wanted some type of souvenir but the girl explained to us that judges actually read them. Judges table apparently isn’t immediately after service ended. Weirdly about a third of the tables at third coast got beignets in a paper bag to go. We didn’t, but another diner we were getting drinks with did, and they said the judges also definitely did. Weird how that never showed up. Back of my head was on bravo three times, ama about being famous

I’ll post the whole TR when I’m back home next week. Sorry


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Top Chef must intentionally hire terrible wait staff to give added stress and pressure to the cooks.

Great, looking forward to it!

i was totally expecting the judges to announce at the end of the episode the wait staff were instructed to be as dumb as possible just to muck up the works to see how the contestants would overcome the challenge....but alas it was real.

I'm glad I don't have to hear some fat white guy referred to as "Brother" any more.

Brother is now in the pantheon of Top Chef villains for knocking out a bunch of likable/intriguing contestants and then crapping himself once he gets back on the show.

This season is taking a pretty disappointing turn imo. At least no one can credibly accuse Tom/the judges of rigging the decisions, because the way this has went down has made for fairly terrible TV.

Brother going home for the same mistake as last time is shocking.
I honestly did not see this coming, there were some great red herrings in this episode to distract me.

So rarely people go home for deviating a bit too far from the challenge. There have been contestants who cooked their niche style of cuisine for almost the whole season and found a BS explanation why their dish applied to the guideline and never went home.

Now Brother did it twice.

LCK is worth watching, i am guessing you guys didn't see it yet:

True although in this case it seems his food tasted terrible also. Had he ignored the challenge and made a good dish, he probably skates through, since there were 2 other really bad dishes.

Obviously making a dish inspired by a cocktail, leaves a lot of leeway. Eric was the winner, and he made oysters because... they used to drink the cocktail while at sea? Ok I guess. That's pretty flimsy... but then so are most of the connections in these "inspired by" challenges. Judges care more about the food than whatever story they come up with to connect the food to the challenge.

It's true, you make a good dish and you don't go home but once your dish has enough flaws to put you into the bottom the fact that you're not following the theme easily becomes the tie-breaker which happened to be Brother's downfall.

short dude angry face seems to be best on show

That had to be the worst dinner in the history of Top Chef. Sausage Girl got lucky as hell that someone actually made a dish worse than hers.

cant believe that ****ing sausage didnt get her sent home