Recipe for the winning dish by Michael Voltaggio.
Top Chef: Chef Rick Moonen, guest judge
Top Chef: Natalie Portman next week
UPDATE: For a recap of the show, click here.
The beautiful Natalie Portman will be the guest on next week’s Top Chef, airing Wednesday, October 28th. Here’s a preview of Natalie’s visit.
Top Chef: Laurine Wickett out
The Restaurant Wars ate up the Blue Team (Laurine Wickett, Kevin Gillespie, Jennifer Carroll, Michael Isabella) after they had just won the quickfire challenge, which consisted of each team member cooking for 10 minutes a dish in succession, but without knowledge of what the other people on the team had intended. The team members were actually blindfolded during the others’ cooking! The Blue Team cooked an amazing dish of cod.
But, during the Restaurant Wars, the Blue Team had one failure after another. And they made the silly mistake of opting not to have any dessert. Bad move. Talk about crash and burn!
Meanwhile, Red Team chef Michael Voltaggio–brother to Bryan–won the challenge with 2 dishes that the judges absolutely loved! Bryan seemed really jealous at the end. Tom Colicchio called the Red Team’s entire set of dishes the best ever in the Restaurant Wars in the history of the show. Wow, that’s impressive.
Even though Michael Voltaggio won, he got into a little tift with Robin during the Restaurant Wars.
More highlights from Restaurant Wars:
Throwdown: Bobby Flay wins sloppy joe versus Andrew + John Schnipper
Another repeat, Throwdown fans! Bobby Flay wins again! Wow, the show must like repeating the few shows that Bobby wins. In the 2d episode tonight, Bobby beats Andrew and John Schnipper of Schnipper’s Quality Kitchen in a sloppy joe throwdown.
Recipes
1. Bobby Flay’s sloppy joes (winner)
Throwdown: Bobby Flay wins “mac ‘n cheese” vs. Delilah Winder
Sorry Throwdown fans, this week’s episode is another repeat. Bobby Flay went against Chef Delilah Winder and her 7-cheese mac ‘n cheese, which was voted the best mac ‘n cheese on the Oprah Winfrey show.
Well, remarkably, Bobby Flay beat the “Queen of Mac ‘n Cheese” with his 5-cheese mac ‘n cheese carbonara. Another rare victory for Bobby!
Recipes
1. Bobby Flay’s mac ‘n cheese carbonara (winner)
2. Delilah Winder’s 7 cheese mac ‘n cheese