Quickfire Challenge: Tag Team Cook-off. The one where one person starts a dish, then another continues it, until all four have participated and the dish is (hopefully) finished. The teams are Kevin, Kenny, Kelly and Amanda (Blue Team) versus Ed, Tiffany, Angelo and Alex (Red Team). The judge is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Kevin's team seems to connect well, and produces a great prawn dish. Ed's team gets pissed because Alex seasons the red snapper in the second step, when everyone would expect the person who cooks the fish to do the seasoning. So Kevin's team wins because the other dish is too salty.
Elimination Challenge: Restaurant Wars. They keep the same teams from the Elimination Challenge. Ed's team (led by Angelo) looks for any way to keep Alex out of the kitchen as much as possible. Meanwhile, Kevin's team (led by Kenny) finishes prep with time to spare and are cool customers. The guest judge is Frank Bruni, former reviewer for The New York Times and a notoriously tough critic. Alex and Angelo are rude to the servers and Alex screws up the judges' seating and the timing of their courses as well. He also fails to say goodbye and thank them when they leave.
Red Team Menu:
Angelo: Confit of tomato soup, squash and olive crouton, which the judges say is interesting in a good way.
Tiffany: Crudo of black bass and yellowtail snapper with Meyer lemon-caper relish, which Gail thinks missed the mark beause it was salty and overdressed.
Tiffany: Striped bass, stewed spinach, chorizo and clams, which Gail thinks was slightly overcooked, but the flavors are great.
Ed: Slow-baked turbot, eggplant caviar and black olive jus, which Frank really likes.
Alex: Pan-seared lamb chop, English pea puree, smoked bacon and Parmesan foam, which Frank wishes had more texture.
Angelo and Ed: Seared rib eye steak, crushed walnut potatoes, and balsamic fig reduction, which Tom doesn't love, although he likes the walnut with the potatoes. Frank doesn't think it fits the restaurant's Mediterranean theme, except for the figs.
Blue Team Menu:
Kelly: Chilled sweet corn soup with Maryland blue crab salad, which the judges found flavorless and thin.
Kenny: Beet salad with warm chorizo-citrus vinaigrette, which the judges find a little busy.
Amanda: Oakwood grilled strip steak with roasted sunchoke and Maitake mushrooms, which the judges find too thin to form a crust.
Kevin: Pan-roasted halibut, fennel marmalade and tomato-fennel emulsion, which Frank thinks is really pretty, and the judges find incredibly flavorful.
Kenny: Crisped aged goat cheese on strawberry-rhubarb relish, which the judges call "a horror show."
Kelly: dark chocolate ganache tart with blackberry chocolate chunk ice cream. The judges like the ganache, but not the ice cream.
And somehow, the Red Team wins. And the overall winner is Ed, for his turbot dish. I guess the weird service didn't really factor in when the food was good, which the team members who aren't named Alex were probably counting on.
As the judges are telling the Blue Team where they went wrong, Kenny and Kevin speak up and tell them that Alex didn't do any cooking or planning or prepping, and that they think he should be the one to go home. And then they go back to the Stew Room and tell Alex the same thing to his face. The judges pretty much ignore their recommendation and send Kenny home. GOD DAMN. Kenny went home before Amanda or Alex. I mean, he hasn't had great dishes since the first few weeks, but I really don't think it was his time.
It's the morning after Stephen's elimination. Amanda is sad that Stephen is gone but she believes "the best of the best" are still in it, and she's starting to believe she belongs in that category. I still don't believe it. I think once she and Alex are gone, I might buy it. It's hard to separate my personal feelings about her, and her cooking. She might be a great cook (although the editing has led me to believe otherwise), but she's so annoying that I can't get past it. Kenny can't understand why he's always in the middle, since he's older and has more experience. I have an idea; maybe it's because the food he has served hasn't been as good as the food other people have served. Just a thought.
Quickfire Challenge. The cheftestants enter the kitchen to find red and blue aprons and blindfolds. Padma appears to tell them that it's time for the tag team cookoff, where four people team up to create a dish and the people not cooking are blindfolded so that they have to guess what they should do . Each team has forty minutes, so each chef has ten minutes to cook. Padma tells them that there is no more immunity, but the winning team will split $10,000.
They draw knives, and most of them are blank. Kevin gets first choice and Ed gets second choice, so Kevin chooses Kenny as his first pick. They're friends, and Kenny is a good chef, so that seems logical. And here's a shocker: Ed chooses Tiffany first. Kevin takes Kelly , because you probably don't want Kenny and Angelo on the same team, I'm guessing. So Ed takes Angelo with his pick, leaving Amanda and Alex as the bottom two. Kevin goes with Amanda, so Ed has to pick Alex, who apparently did not steal the pea puree, according to Colicchio's latest blog on the official site. And Tom claims that other cheftestants told him that. So why didn't those cheftestants get interview segments in that episode, to at least provide some balance between all of the people who claimed that Alex DID steal it? That's pretty shady, producers. I'm no Alex fan, but you could have at least put in ONE person saying, "I'm pretty sure I saw Alex making the puree." I mean, I get that you want it to be ambiguous so that people will talk about it and stir up some buzz, but the way it was presented wasn't even ambiguous and made Alex out to be a jerk. And he may be a jerk, but he's apparently not a thief.
Once the teams have determined the order, the contest begins with Kenny (Blue Team) and Tiffany (Red Team) going head-to-head. Kenny is the "preppin' weapon" so it makes sense for him to go first, although I think you could make an argument for second instead. The first person really just figures out the protein and sides and sets up some pots and pans (which is pretty much what Tiffany does). She prepares a snapper, but leaves the head out so that the person will know what kind of fish it is. So smart! Kenny has prepped some prawns and started a cream sauce, and is trying to give a picture of what he has envisioned for the final dish.
Padma blows the whistle and the second group starts. We have Amanda for the Blue Team and Alex for the Red Team. Amanda takes a second to look at everything that Kenny set out and taste the sauces, and quickly figures out that he was going for a pasta dish. She puts the pasta in the water and starts sautéing some mushrooms. Kenny watches her, nodding and smiling, because she totally caught his snap. Alex tries to figure out what Tiffany started and his first instinct is to season the fish. Tiffany gives him a total gas face (which he can't see) and interviews that she doesn't know why he's seasoning the fish since it should be done right before cooking and they have thirty minutes left. That is dumb. Even if you were the only one cooking, it doesn't make sense to season that early. But especially if someone else will actually be cooking, it makes zero sense.
Whistle! The battle is Ed for the Red Team and Kevin for the Blue Team, so the two team captains. Ed continues prepping that poor fish. On the sidelines, Tiffany wonders if Ed will be able to see that Alex already salted the fish. Alex is sure he'll be able to. Look, the Red Team has already decided that anything that goes wrong is Alex's fault; it's just nice that Alex gave them an actual reason to blame him. Kevin really just has to continue Amanda's work, and then pick some basil and grate some Parmesan.
Final whistle! Angelo vs. Kelly. Angelo says that the station is a wreck and he has no clue what to do, so he starts off by salting the fish. Oops. Kelly, meanwhile, was left a clean and organized station, and she finds it easy to know what to do. Angelo somehow realizes that the fish was already salted (so why did he add more?) so he adds more herbs. And time is up!
The guest judge is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. I appreciate that they are in DC and want to take advantage, but I'm kind of against non-food experts judging competitions. Then again, this one isn't for immunity, and Pelosi claims that she's a foodie, so whatever. I just don't like when it affects the outcome of the competition.
Blue Team made sautéed shrimp, angel hair pasta, mustard sauce, and crispy basil. Looks delicious. I would have skipped the mushrooms, but that's just me. Pelosi says that she's from San Francisco, and this dish reminds her of her home with all the local flavors. She also compliments the fact that the pasta is cooked perfectly al dente, which had to be tough unless just one person cooked it all in their ten-minute time slot.
Red Team made roasted red snapper, wilted greens, and Maitake mushrooms. Roasted? Not pan-seared? Okay. Pelosi thinks it's delicious and wholesome, but a little bit salty. Tiffany immediately blames Alex in an interview, so he's a convenient scapegoat. Pelosi says that one team had only a slight advantage, and that's Team Blue. They celebrate and Padma reminds them that they share $10,000. It's Amanda's first win in the competition and it's a team win. That should tell you something, no? Pelosi wishes them well and then takes off. Tiffany interviews that their dish was good, minus the salt, so it's entirely Alex's fault. I don't know if I buy that. Maybe Tiffany could have done a better job setting up what Alex should do? A little bit?
Padma is happy to introduce the Elimination Challenge: Restaurant Wars. Kenny hopes for a sweep of the two most famous challenges to prove to Angelo that he's not the King Supreme. Haven't we already proved that? Kelly has made a pretty strong showing, I think. Tiffany has done well. I think this stopped being the Kenny vs. Angelo show about episode three. Anyway, Padma explains that they'll be taking over Redwood restaurant and each team will be responsible for a three-course menu, with two options per course, and each cheftestant has to be responsible for at least one dish. This sounds like an SAT question all of a sudden. Tiffany isn't happy that they are stuck with the same teams from the Quickfire, especially since she has Alex on her team. She should look at it as having someone to easily blame if things go wrong. The guest judge will be Frank Bruni, former restaurant critic for The New York Times. Kelly and Kevin both let us know that Bruni is known as one of the harshest and most critical food critics ever. Then there's some product placement and then they go shopping.
Tiffany and Alex are paired to go to Restaurant Depot while the other half of their team, Ed and Angelo, go to Whole Foods. Alex is obviously being really annoying in the back seat; he keeps wanting to talk about things with Tiffany and she is encouraging him to just write down a list. He doesn't take the hint, and she's peeved. Meanwhile, Ed and Angelo make the decision that they're going to keep Alex out of the loop as much as possible. Kevin and Kelly are in the same car, and Kevin overhears this scheming, which he thinks is wrong. Not because he cares about Alex's feelings or anything, but because the rules of the challenge are that each person has to be responsible for at least one dish. Ed interviews that they decided to make Alex front of the house because they feel like he an do the least damage to the food up there.
While shopping, Tiffany and Angelo communicate via cell phone or walkie talkie or space communicator or something. Angelo asks her to get lamb chops, but only if they are fresh. Keep this in mind later, when they discuss who was responsible for each dish. Angelo is ordering the lamb chops. Got it? Kenny and Amanda are judging the Red Team's disorganization and chaos. The same thing is happening at Whole Foods; Ed and Angelo are having to take stuff back at the checkout while Kevin and Kelly are right on budget. Good thing this is a competition about how organized your kitchen is! Oh, wait. It's not?
They return to the kitchen, and Angelo takes over as Executive Chef. Angelo orders Alex to prep the proteins -- lamb chops and fish. Kelly is going to be front-of-the-house for the Blue Team, so she decides to make a cold soup and a dessert. That way, both of her dishes can be finished before service starts, and she doesn't have to rely on someone else to finish them, which could be risky. Kenny is executive chef for the Blue Team. Shocker.
Angelo gets frustrated because Alex is screwing up the butchering, which is the one task he was told to do. Angelo runs over and takes over the butchering. It does seem like Alex is taking off way too much flesh in his efforts to trim the fat, but what do I know from butchering? Nothing. Meanwhile, the Blue Team has all their stuff prepped with time to spare. Alex tries to butcher the fish, but it's taking a long time. The Red Team, in general, is just flailing, and everyone notices. So they're totally going to lose, right?
The day, the teams arrive at the Redwood to start work. The Red Team is going to call their restaurant EVOO (which they're pronouncing Ee-vooooo, not like Rachael Ray style). That's a terrible name, mostly because anyone who has ever watched a minute of food-based television will think of Rachael Ray when they see it written out. Right? The teams jockey for space in the small kitchen. Angelo tries to tell Kevin how it's going to be, and Kevin is just like, "Nope." Heh. That cracked me up. Angelo was like, "We'll be in space one, and you will be in space two?" And Kevin was like, "No." And Angelo was like, "Okay, we'll be in space two." Like it was a negotiation, when really, Kevin just shut him down.
Angelo asks Alex if he's done with the lamb yet, and Alex says he's not. They don't show us what Alex is doing with the lamb. Is he marinating it? Prepping it? Getting it ready to go in the oven? Don't know. Tiffany, meanwhile, wants to start cooking her fish but she realizes that Alex totally screwed up the prep and there are scales and bones all over the place. She tells Angelo, "I had to do all the fish over again. Scales and bones. Not d....SCALES AND BONES." I love mellow Tiffany, but I also kind of love pissed-off Tiffany as well.
The Blue Team is calling their restaurant 2121, which is the address of the house where they all live. The team is communicating well and all getting along. They're tasting one another's food and collaborating. Amanda is having some trouble. She's using a wood-fire grill for her steaks, and she's never used one before. So that could be problematic, especially since the wood seems either new, or green, or wet, because there is a ton of smoke pouring out.
As service nears, Angelo starts getting super antsy, running around, shaking pans, and telling people what to do. Kenny notices and interviews that it's finally he and Angelo going head-to-head. What have they been doing all along, if not competing against one another? And what about their teammates? Kenny's ego needs deflating. Angelo picks on Alex, since he's obviously the weak one in the herd, and tells him that there's no talking in the kitchen. He's a grown up. Shut up, Angelo. Wait, why am I defending nerdy, gross, annoying Alex? I hate that Angelo has put me in this position. Even Alex is like, "This is bullshit." But he keeps his mouth shut during the prep, because he knows it's not the time.
Alex and Kelly get ready to talk to the servers about the food and the service. Kelly interviews that, at her restaurant, her husband handles this part, and she would hate to go home over something she knows she's not good at. Good point. It would suck to make it this far in a cooking competition and then go home for something that's not about food. And while some may argue that this is part of being a chef that owns a restaurant, it seems like you could just throw money at the problem and concentrate on cooking your food.
The differences in Alex and Kelly's management styles are immediately apparent. Kelly takes a pals-y approach that will work great since she's presumably dealing with people with tons of food service and fine dining experience who will be working for her for one night. Alex takes a drill sergeant approach that will cause everyone to hate him now and forever. He actually shows one busboy (I think?) how to wipe off a table with extra elbow grease to "make it new." Oooookay. And he spends a lot of time on it, which seems like a waste, and then gives them ten minutes to polish the silverware (the fuck? Isn't it already clean?) and wipe down the tables. And he leaves the room, and they probably all stick the spoons down their pants to fuck with him.
The Blue Team takes the time to do a tasting with the wait staff, and each cheftestant gets to explain his or her dish, as the servers take notes. Meanwhile, for the Red Team, Alex just explains the dish and shows it to them. Not sure why they can't taste it, but Alex explains in an interviews that he was very descriptive. Uh huh. I'm sure they're totally listening to him now that they all hate him. Then time is nearly up and last-minute preparations are happening. Alex is just now telling the servers about the name and theme of the restaurant.
The first set of guests arrive. The Blue Team's guests get served immediately, but one of the servers for the Red Team screws up and forgets a dish. Alex takes it back to Angelo, who's like yelling at people and freaking out. While Alex is out explaining the problem to the guests and trying to smooth things over, the judges arrive. Alex has his back to the door, so he doesn't see them walk in. Some random server seats the judges and then one of the other guests must notice the judges are there and Alex finally makes his way over to the table and acts all awkward and shit, as usual. Padma introduces Frank Bruni, Gail, and Tom. Alex is nervous and stammers his introduction as he explains that their philosophy is to take fresh fish and give it a Mediterranean influence. The judges order two of each dish and Alex takes the order to the kitchen.
The Red Team serves two dishes for the first course. First up is Angelo's confit of tomato soup, squash, and olive crouton, and second is Tiffany's crudo of black bass and yellowtail snapper with Meyer lemon-caper relish. Alex claims that there's a "summer salad" on top of the crudo, and Tom asks why. Alex's only answer is, "It sounds better than microgreens." Good one. The judges think that the crudo is too salty, but they love Angelo's soup, as do the guests.
Alex apparently screws up the timing of the tickets, so the judges have to wait for the second course. Padma must still be nursing and is STARVING as she crankily calls out, "How we doing? I want my second course." Tom is making a phone call when the food comes, so there was apparently quite a wait. Finally, he serves up Tiffany's striped bass, stewed spinach, chorizo, and littleneck clams, along with Ed's slow-baked turbot, eggplant caviar and black olive jus. Alex claims that every dish has "a little bit" of something, a tic that I find a little bit annoying. Frank Bruni praises Ed's dish, and says that it tastes Mediterranean. Gail found the fish to be slightly overcooked, but the flavors were good, and Frank thinks it's a nice recovery from the first course.
Alex gets the third course out in what is apparently a timely fashion, as there are no complaints. He introduces his own dish, pan-seared lamb chop, English pea puree, smoked bacon, and Parmesan foam. It looks like a lamb chop sitting in a puddle of puke and spit. I'm sorry, but it does. He also introduces Angelo and Ed's seared rib eye steak, crushed walnut potatoes, and balsamic fig reduction. Frank points out that the lamb chop dish doesn't have much texture. Tom spits out something so fast that I had to rewind like ten times to get it, but it turns out the steak wasn't great, but he liked the walnut potatoes. Frank points out that there wasn't much Mediterranean about the dish, other than the figs.
The judges discuss the service. Frank says that it was "hit or miss," which is too kind, and that the team seems to have focused all of their attention in the kitchen and none out front. Tom notes that they didn't get greeted at the door, but maybe they will get a goodbye. The judges stand up to leave and a server stands there and nods at them as they go, but Alex doesn't move to say anything, even though he's nearby.
Weird interstital. Amanda is having trouble with the beef, and some of the steaks are overcooked. She claims that the beef is weird because it's grass fed. Is there really that much difference between cooking grass fed beef and domesticated beef? Really?
For the Blue Team, Kelly makes sure to greet the judges when they walk in. She takes time to explain their cuisine, which they are calling Progressive American, serving foods that are of the season and of the moment. Sounds good. Let's go. Padma is excited about the dessert and cheese courses, specifically.
Kelly brings out the first course, which consists of her own chilled sweet corn soup with Maryland blue crab salad and Kenny's beet salad with warm chorizo-citrus vinaigrette. Tom didn't find a lot of corn flavor in the soup, and thinks it was too thin. Gail points out that crabs are local, but corn isn't in season, so that doesn't fit their theme. Tom thinks it would be a great dish in three months. Fran points out that Kenny's salad is busy, and Tom brings up Coco Chanel's edict about accessories, thinking it applies to this dish.
The second course is Amanda's oakwood grilled strip steak with roasted sunchoke and Maitake mushrooms, and Kevin's pan-roasted halibut, fennel marmalade, and tomato-fennel emulsion. Tom thinks the steak is cut too thin, which prevents a good crust from forming, but the sauce is really good. Frank and Padma love how the halibut looks, and Tom thinks there are a lot of flavors. Frank loves the sauce. Kelly relays the compliment to Kevin in the kitchen.
Time for the final course. Kenny interviews that he knows it's a risk taking on the Executive Chef role and he doesn't want to let his team down. Kelly serves Kenny's crisped aged goat cheese on strawberry-rhubarb relish, and her own dark chocolate ganache tart with blackberry chocolate chunk ice cream. Gail has many compliments about the tart, warming up for her role on the upcoming desserts spinoff. Frank adds that the ice cream was flavorless. They move on to the cheese, which Gail thinks is a huge piece for one person to eat. Frank tastes it and makes a grossed-out face. Uh oh. They think that the cheese tastes soapy and the crust is salty. How could that have gone out, with all the tasting and everything that team was doing? I don't get it.
Overall, Tom thinks it was a good showing for Restaurant Wars. Frank singles out Ed's turbot and Kevin's halibut as the best dishes. Frank hated Kenny's goat cheese dish. Gail didn't like either of the Blue Team's first course dishes. Tom hated Tiffany's crudo for the Red Team. They all agree that Kelly's service was way better than Alex's service. Frank doesn't think that either team kept to their stated theme very well. And it's time for Judges' Table.
Padma walks into the Stew Room and asks to see the Red Team first. Left behind, Amanda says she was really confident going into elimination and Kelly thinks there's a good chance they are on the bottom. Wouldn't she know, since she was out front and probably heard the diners' comments? Kevin and Kenny agree that their minds would be blown if they are on the bottom.
The Red Team faces the judges, and Padma immediately tells them that they are the winners. None of them can believe it. Frank asks Alex why he was so nervous, and Alex says that he was calm everywhere but the judges' table. They compliment Angelo's soup, Tiffany's bass, and Ed's turbot. Tom asks who came up with the lamb dish. Angelo claims that Alex came up with it and he and Ed tackled it in the kitchen. So Alex basically said, "How about lamb?" and then they did the rest, apparently. But the overall winner tonight is Ed, for his turbot. So he gets a giant bottle of product-placed wine. No, seriously. It's, like, novelty-sized.
Red Team heads back to the Stew Room to deliver the news that they won, and that now the Blue Team has to go face the music. After Padma tells them that they lost, Kenny says that, in the kitchen, it was obvious that his team was better organized with better communication, so he's shocked to be there. Gail tells him that, as diners, they don't care about how the kitchen runs. They care about how the food tastes and (to a lesser extent, obviously), how the service runs. And while the editors tried their best to make Alex look like a bumbling fool, it's obvious the service wasn't THAT bad. We've seen worse in Restaurant Wars, I think. Frank Bruni tells Kelly that service went smoothly, and that she had "a clumsy charisma." Talk about backhanded compliments. Kelly can breathe a sigh of relief, though. At least she's not going home for poor service, which was her stated fear.
Padma starts in on the food, and asks Kelly if her soups are always that thin. Kelly says that she prefers her soups to be "on the thin side," and she is crazy. Has anyone ever complained about soup being too thick? No one has. I like to stand my spoon up in my chowder. Tom moves on to Kenny's beet salad, which Kenny takes full responsibility for. Gail says that they wanted him to reel it in, and Frank Bruni compares it to Hamburger Helper. OUCH. That's mean. Kevin says that the halibut was his, and he gets nothing but praise for it. They move on to Amanda's beef, which Frank Bruni tells her was overcooked and under-juicy. He adds, "It was like having a great pair of shoes with a really mediocre suit." Amanda stands there with her mouth open as usual and then says that she's shocked that it was overcooked. She's like a five-year-old.
Now it's time to talk about the cheese course. Before they can totally rip it to shreds, Kenny speaks up and says that Angelo and Ed covered for Alex's lack of ability. Tom asks if they're saying that Alex didn't come up with his dish, and Kevin affirms it, and adds that Alex needs to go home. Kevin promises that he would say this to Alex's face too. Padma looks a little surprised. Tom never says (or at least is never shown saying) what he posted in his blog a million times, which is that they will never send home someone from the winning team. So we're left wondering if the judges will break precedent, when they clearly had no intention of doing so. I think they could have created enough drama over whether it would be Amanda or Kenny, but apparently not.
Back in the Stew Room, the Blue Team is pissed. Kelly asks if they can be honest, and Kevin jumps in and tells Alex that he didn't do shit. Kevin gets all fired up and kicks it promo style, standing up and yelling, "Your group even threw you under the bus! Your group even threw you under the bus!" Alex doesn't say much to defend himself, but Angelo and Tiffany speak up to say that the judges knew exactly what Alex did. Kenny gets into the fray when he stands up and says that the rules were that each person was supposed to come up with a dish, and the reality was that Angelo took Alex's lamb and prepped the whole dish. Alex says that he did exactly as he was asked, which was to butcher the proteins. Angelo totally knows that's bullshit, so he tells Alex that he doesn't have to defend himself. There is no defense. Alex didn't create a dish. But he was lucky enough that his team won, so he will live to cook another day. It doesn't help that he's the designated group scapegoat, and Kenny's kind of a bully. I would be pissed too, though, but I don't think I would take it out on Alex. It's a flaw in the rules of the competition, really.
The judges discuss the food. Tom says that Kelly's soup was thin and flavorless, and Gail agrees. Frank points out that Amanda was responsible for just one dish, and she still screwed it up. Kevin also did only one dish, but his one dish was great. Kenny served up two poor dishes: the goat cheese and the beet salad. Gail defends Kenny, saying that he did a great job organizing and motivating the team, which isn't easy, and it's a task that others have failed at and been sent home for in the past. Frank Bruni puts a cap on the Alex discussion when he says that the Red Team may have covered for Alex, but they did it knowing that he'd be safe if their team won. So somehow from that conversation, they have an answer. I really need to watch the extended judging on this one.
Okay, I watched it and it does make things a little more clear, but also makes me wish they left more time to show some of this conversation in the actual show. Basically, they discussed which was worse: Kenny having two bad dishes but also taking on the executive chef role and doing it well, or Amanda only having one dish and executing it poorly, and then getting defensive about it when they pointed it out. They decided that no one forced Kenny to take on the leadership role, and he knew what he was getting into. And they also talked about how truly awful the goat cheese dish was, largely because the piece of cheese was HUGE. I guess if they showed that, it would have been obvious Kenny was going home and ruined all suspense. I sort of wish they could show it AFTER the elimination is announced, sort of like those crime shows that show you the jury's decision and then flash back and show how the crime actually went down. I guess that's what the web video is for. Anyway.
The Blue Team comes back out to hear their fate. Tom tells them that the flow to their meal was great, but EVOO had a better menu and better food. He tells Kevin that his halibut was great. Kelly was great in the front, but her soup was thin and flavorless. Kenny did a great job as Executive Chef, but his two dishes weren't good. Amanda's one dish had a couple of mistakes. So who's going home? Motherfucking Kenny. I think the problem here is that a lot of us believed Kenny's bragging about how awesome he was, and after the first week, he really didn't back it up. I don't know if he's as good as he thinks. He's probably better than Alex, so it's a bummer to see him go home before him and Amanda. But that's how it goes.
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