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Top Chef: season 6, episode 14
"Season Finale: Part II"
December 9, 2009 - 12:12p.m.
[Top Chef fans: Instead of my usual post-episode recap, I'll be hosting a live-blog with special appearances by such A.V. Club luminaries as Amelie Gillette, Donna Bowman, Noel Murray, Emily Withrow, Steve Hyden, Kyle Ryan, and Todd VanDerWerff ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 13
"Season Finale, Part 1"
December 3, 2009 - 12:12a.m.
[Important and exciting programming note: Instead of doing the usual post-episode recap, myself and a host of A.V. Club Top Chef watchers are going to liveblog the finale. Amelie Gillette did this with Project Runway a few weeks ago ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 12
"Culinary Olympics"
November 18, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
Looks like Robin got out at the right time.
With the competition thinned to what I think most would (or should) agree are the best final five chefs in the show’s history, Top Chef morphed into another, more exciting ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 11
"Strip Around The World"
November 11, 2009 - 11:11p.m.
In the immortal words of Krusty The Clown: “Poochie’s dead!”
After surviving 11 Elimination challenges mainly by virtue of someone else sucking worse, Robin’s reign of strident mediocrity finally came to a close tonight with yet another dish ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 10
"Meat Natalie"
October 29, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
“Is competency enough tomorrow?”
This from Robin, speculating after her failed Quickfire whether she will simply survive another week—not on trying something ambitious and perhaps failing, but on serving up another steaming plate of mediocrity and hoping that someone ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 9
"Restaurant Wars"
October 22, 2009 - 03:10a.m.
My wife is one of the world’s biggest Top Chef fans, but she’s also been a little underwhelmed by this season. On the other hand, this is finally the season that has won me totally over to the ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 8
"Pigs And Pinot"
October 15, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
“Guess what? I didn’t come here to make friends. I came here to friggin’ compete.”
If you utter those words on a reality competition show—and many do, as you can see by the clips below that my Twitter ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 7
"Dinner Party"
October 7, 2009 - 11:10p.m.
Zzzzzzzzzzz…
Oh, hello there. [Wipes drool from side of cheek.] Here we are around the halfway point of Top Chef’s sixth season, and tonight’s instantly forgettable hour represents what New Yorker baseball writer Roger Angell once called “the ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 6
"Penn & Teller"
September 24, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
And now for my deconstructed recap of tonight’s Top Chef episode. Just jam a spoon into the computer monitor, stir up the random nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and hope it doesn’t turn out like Ron’s paella.
Just ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 4
Camping
September 16, 2009 - 11:09p.m.
Padma doesn't have to sleep in a teepee, no, but she's not on the same social strata as the chef'testants. Last week's episode exposed the chefs to the privilege of being part of the culinary elite ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 4
Vivre Las Vegas
September 9, 2009 - 11:09p.m.
A question: do you think you appreciate an episode of Top Chef more if you’re more familiar with the foods being prepared? Because if so, I apologize ahead of time. The week I fill in for Scott while he ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 3
"Thunderbirds"
September 3, 2009 - 12:09a.m.
A couple of notes right off the bat:
• So Ashley is upset about cooking for a bachelor/bachelorette party because she, as a lesbian, isn’t allowed to participate in the institution of marriage (in most states), yet she’s ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 2
"Bachelor/Ette"
August 27, 2009 - 12:08a.m.
Last week offered an exciting Top Chef two-fer: The season finale of Top Chef Masters, which quietly asserted itself as perhaps my favorite episode in franchise history (as I wrote in that blog, it was like watching a real-life, extended ...
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Top Chef: season 6, episode 1
"Sin City Vice"
August 19, 2009 - 09:08p.m.
Hello and welcome back to another season of Top Chef blogging. With this following right on the heels of Top Chef Masters, your friendly neighborhood recapper is feeling mighty fatigued—and a little bit hungry, of course—but after a ...
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Top Chef: season 5, episode 14
"Finale: Part II"
February 25, 2009 - 05:02p.m.
Hootie hum.The results of tonight’s viewer poll revealed that of the remaining three contestants going into finale, Carla deserved to win by an overwhelming 65% margin, with Hosea at 20% and Stefan bringing up the rear at 15 ... -
Top Chef: season 5, episode 13
Finale: Part One
February 18, 2009 - 05:02p.m.
The last two episodes of the season are set in New Orleans, and I’m beginning to regret not asking our own Amelie Gillette, a native of the city, to finish out the recapping for me. I know she tends ... -
Top Chef: season 5, episode 12
"The Last Supper"
February 11, 2009 - 06:02p.m.
Now if you’ll allow me just a second, I have to wipe away the image of Padma in that red dress from my head and focus on the task at hand. Katie Lee Joel, Katie Lee Joel, Katie Lee ... -
Top Chef: season 5, episode 11
"Le Bernardin"
February 4, 2009 - 05:02p.m.
First off, thanks for Genevieve Koski for filling in so capably in my absence. Given her own prowess in the kitchen—as evidenced by the delicious jailhouse “Nutriloaf” she prepared from a recipe ganked from an Illinois court case—Genevieve ... -
Top Chef: season 5, episode 10
"Super Bowl Chef Showdown"
January 28, 2009 - 05:01p.m.
Scott’s sitting out tonight, sick from what I can only assume is overexposure to Toby Young’s moldy quips, so I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for a second-string Top Chef guide tonight. And what an episode ... -
Top Chef: season 5, episode 9
"Restaurant Wars"
January 21, 2009 - 06:01p.m.
Restaurant Wars has long been the big signature Top Chef episode every season, and also the only one pre-finale that’s repeated without much variation. And based on tonight, as well as past years, the producers obviously know a good ...
