Finally saw the show before the new one airs. now I can comment.
Did anyone notice, the very FIRST scene involved the couple. In fact there were 2 scenes about them as a couple. And with the previews showing Zoi having a whiny meltdown & Jennifer going to bat for her, these two will definitely be around for a while. I say another 4 shows at least. I think we should have a DIS contest to see who gets closest to seeing how many more episodes they will keep the couple together on the show.
I am tired of these "serving food to the masses" shows! Like you said, Imzadi -- it's Top CHEF! Please- enough with the catering! Let's just make great dishes for the judges for a change.
Imzadi -- b/c you're more "in the know" ... do these famous chefs (Bourdain, etc.) do a lot of catering?
Daxx, I'm not really up much on these famous celebrity "personality" chefs. Although as Oh, Kay! said, I think most do have a private banquet room for their own catered affairs, parties & such. Some are probably really picky as to whether they will cater someone's wedding off-premises. And they do it because it's a regular client, or it will bring them a lot of new clientelle. They have to really be multi-taskers to the extreme to do off-premise catering.
The catering companies I've worked for and know about are ones that are a full, separate division of off-premises catering vs. restaurants who also do catering. It really is a full scale operation, in itself. It's like when the circus comes to town - they have to bring everything themselves. The party planners & caterers have to arrange for everything, and bring everything, cook on-site. Then at the end of the evening, be responsible to break it all down, like nothing had ever been there.
That's partly why I got upset last week. If people aren't used to doing it on a routine basis, aren't given the right mobile equipment etc., it's really unfair to judge them for that. That's like judging me on doctoring skills because I once dissected a pig in biology class and should know the difference between a vein and an artery when I see them.
Wolfgang Puck is one of the few celebrity chefs who owns (5?) restaurants AND has a full off-premises catering division. (He does the catering for the Governor's ball after the Oscars.) I once ate his tender, baby lamb chops from New Zealand, that were roasted with rosemary and topped with a mint sauce, that were absolutely to die for!
Did anyone else think that Stephanie and Lisa were going to get the bottom two because they didn't do a dessert as the final course? I was shocked that they were in the top two!
I was shocked too! I would have thought being last, they HAD to do a dessert by default. There were SIX courses, the last should have been dessert.
It's not like the first group that went had a choice of NOT doing an appetizer course.
Aren't those two part of the same group that added meat to what should have been a vegetarian course during the zoo episode?
I knew Manuel was gone as soon as he said he was missing his kids. That's the telegraphed "loser's edit" on Top Chef!
The editing on this show is ridiculous. You can always guess who is going to be top and bottom by how much face time they have.
I had a feeling Manuel was going because frankly I never really noticed him before,
and suddenly they had him on about 3 times before the cut.
It would have been better with the milder tilapia that Spike suggested, or the lobster that Chef Tom suggested. The lamb looked good, but didn't add up with the movie.
I'd have probably done a gnocchi dish (probably a butternut squash one since they were cooking in the fall) since Michael's DD and her cousin made them in GF3 (even though that was the worst of the trilogy.) What movie would you have chosen and what would you have made?
