i am heading to moscow for a week for vacation. i have some dining suggestions from my travel books, and will be staying with an ex-pat who can show me around a bit, but if anyone has any solid favorites or secret gems to share, it would be much appreciated!
i think you can narrow down the final 3 to richard for sure, probably stephanie, and either dale or antonia (i like her more each week). i'm just not 100% sold on lisa, i don't know why.
i can't speak to most cities on the list as i've only visited them briefly, but i've lived in houston and eaten many a mexican meal there. it gets my vote.
so pretentious. another reason to put other places ahead of momofuku ko on my list of restaurants i'm curious about.
congrats! i didn't get a chance to listen to morning edition yesterday. will check out this story later today.
i recently made a delicious roast cauliflower, capers, lemon & mascarpone pasta dish (successfully, imo, attempting to recreate a dish from the good fork in red hook, brooklyn). not sure where i got the recipe for the roast cauliflower but it turned out more golden brown than burnt.
mmm chipotle! i get the veggie burrito w/ black beans, tomatoes & roast corn, lettuce, cheese, guac & sour cream. it's probably a lot of calories (who's counting?) but it's not like i eat there all the time, maybe once a month or so for lunch.
the only thing i don't like about the egg mcmuffin? they're unavailable after 10:30am.
when i was a kid my family only ate fast food when we were on vacations, so it was a real treat to eat breakfast at mcdonald's before starting our day.
block rockin' eats = best top chef headline of the day
i've been to the phallalogical museum in iceland, but there was no affiliated restaurant (thankfully).
you can't fail with a simple pressed 3-cheese sandwich.
@ zekks: The reason Dale was doing everything was because there was no leadership, which Nikki should have assumed since she has the most experience with Italian cooking. She should have set a tone with a menu and split up the responsibilities accordingly. Fish rots at the head. And I loved how she had the audacity to say she wasn't leading the sinking ship. Nikki should have been kicked off weeks ago for the Italian sausage blunder during the tailgate.
@ shell0724: I have to disgree about Dale. I think that he didn't "only try to rescue a meal that was doomed." He just tried to put his hand in a little bit of everything and I think that instead it appeared that this was his reasoning behind getting into so many different things was that to use that excuse that he did so much so the judges would keep him around. Nothing he did was great. He did a lot of things mediocore. Like its been said before, I think its worse to do a bunch of things at a so-so level than a few at a great level. I think that's why Spike was saved (by the chilean sea bass). I can't disagree with the choice to eliminate Nikki at all but I think that Dale is real close to the chopping block and has become exactly what Spike called him....to put it politely.
I think Dale was far from the most annoying contestant. He was placed in an untenable group of slackers and back-stabbers, in my opinion, and only tried to rescue a meal that was doomed. His frustration level was high, but, understandable, especially after extreme sleep deprivation, extreme work, and extremely annoying people. Lisa made a cool cake, but, her hateful disposition and greasy hair annoys me. Antonnia is cool but she tends to be very patronizing and while she shined in last week's challenge, she's not really shown herself to be extraordinary. Dale is a very outspoken and honest person who doesn't suffer fools gladly. I felt he deserved some credit for having to suffer through unbelievably selfish people who were only interested in themselves and their individual dishes, not caring about team work, and not caring about producing a quality menu for someone's wedding! Dale had the work ethic, and he's proven himself through the past episodes. I love Richard, and thought his gesture of bestowing the win on Stephanie was awesome, but, I think Dale would have performed brilliantly if given the chance to work with the bride team, not the bottom of the barrel of this season's remaining chefs. I'm sure they're all top chefs in their own way, but, there is no comparison between Nikki, Lisa, and Spike's attitudes and ostensible mediocrity to Dale. They are so threatened by his excellence that they literally shunned him and refused to treat him like a team member. I was thrilled that Nikki left. She should hang her head in shame. It was she who came out looking like a mug, after shouting out how cooking Italian and leading this mess had nothing to do with her. If their team had won by some miracle, she would have leaped into the center stage. There was a big contrast between the type of people they were compared to Andrew, Antonia, Stephanie and the lovable Richard.
All in all though, I thought it was an interesting show and one that we'll talk about in future seasons.
i've been eating beef jerky for years. is that wrong?
rozilla - there are some good Mexican restaurants in Nashville. Pueblo Viejo and Pueblo Real in Franklin, Las Cazuelas (can't beat the entertainment on Saturday night) or Los Arcos on Nolensville Rd. are all real good.
Is Gail Simmons pregnant? Looked to me like she's... how to say this... filling out a bit but my wife figures she got a bun in the oven.
I'm hoping that we don't see another catering challenge until next season. I think Nikki probably was due to go, but I'm a bit tired of seeing people eliminated because they couldn't put on a buffet for 125 people in less than 36 hours while standing on one foot with no food processor or whatever. That tells me absolutely nothing about what it might be like to eat their food at their restaurant. There have been so many of these challenges this season that I still don't have a good idea of what kind of food some of these people actually cook when they're serving their customers back home. Perhaps next season they can just spin off 'Top Caterer' into its own show and let the chefs on Top Chef be chefs.
@hungrychristel -- Lisa is scary, that's a fact, and she and Dale may end up the Tracy and Hepburn of the season yet. But, I wince thinking about her elimination. They are gonna need a whip and a chair, and maybe a SWAT team that night.
@meganaw -- I can't believe you think Lisa is the next to go. As maxwell so astutely said upthread -- "Spike is a hack. No other comments needed." My hope is that Spike goes next. I'm hoping at least one of the finalists is a female. I think Stehanie could have the chops. And, as the weeks go by, I like Antonia more and more.
@Brownie - Lisa will be the entertainer for sure. I'm not sure I would like to see her make it far, but for sure keep her on until the competition gets intense!
My top three will be Dale, Andrew and Richard.
I think Stephanie will make it to the top 4, but will be let go. Sadly, I'm not seeing anything impressive from the ladies this season. Lisa goes next. Both she and Antonia have yet to do anything really amazing or noteworthy.
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