Originally Posted by Paolo01 (Post 12676041)

Restaurant wars tonight. I have always thought that this episode needed to be a special that was allowed an extra half hour or so. There is just too much going on to get an idea of what the cheftestants have individually contributed. There is also the restaurant wars curse of an otherwise front runner getting lopped off because of a poorly run restaurant. From reading the blogs, it sounds like this is the cheftestants most feared episode.

I suppose production costs make it impossible to get an extra half hour of footage for these complicated episodes. You would think that with Bravo's format of repeating everything every week, you could easily adjust the occasional episode to take a bit more or less time. Especially as the competition increases. Oh well.

Hey has anybody heard anything about any holiday specials this year with former cheftestants reurning to cook?

I am guessing that we will see Robin finally exit, or perhaps Laurine. I am not sure who the 'proprieters' are this week as I deliberately do not watch the 'coming next week' portion. How about pitting the two brothers against one another :)

Originally Posted by ILuvParis (Post 12676144)

Acually, it's tomorrow night and it's 1:15.

Originally Posted by Paolo01 (Post 12666174)

Does everybody here buy the hype that ALL of the judjes on the show are pitching about the quality of the cheftestants competing this season is SO much higher than any previous season?

Maybe on average I suppose, but whenever I think back, I think back to:
Season 1: Harold, Lee Anne
Season 2: Sam, Marcel
Season 3: Hung, Dale, Casey, Brian, CJ
Season 4: Richard, Spike, Dale
Season 5: Stefan, Jeff, Fabio

There are others that I know that I am missing, but the above group just seemed increadibly talented. Maybe one day there will be a TC Winners competition.

But do you really think that this group would be dusted off by the current TC Season 6 group?

Originally Posted by PokerHammy (Post 12679770)

Some of the hype is true - the top 4 last week have been so impressive since the first episode that they could each be crowned TC in the previous seasons. These are all exec. chefs or have own restaurants, while the previous seasons I think were sous chefs or chefs of unknown restaurants.

Originally Posted by Paolo01 (Post 12687372)

Restaurant wars are on!

Rick Moonen is the guest jusdge

Originally Posted by ILuvParis (Post 12687378)

Take a deep breath. ;)

Originally Posted by Paolo01 (Post 12687464)

Nice. The teams are not responsible for decorating and the front office person has to cook a dish. Looks like TC has responded to the ne real weakness of this challenge. It used to be that somebody did not cook and they often times were eliminated without cooking.

Originally Posted by GoingAway (Post 12687502)

This is not twitter - consider iluvparis' advice. Bad enough for the folks on the West Coast that we'll all talk about the winners when its over.

Originally Posted by Paolo01 (Post 12687536)

Noted as I sit here in San Clemente watching. Another piece of advice. Nobody is using in extremist measures forcing you to read the thread an hour or two before you chose to view.

Originally Posted by PokerHammy (Post 12688667)

It was a toss up. At least Jen had an okay fish dish. Laurine didn't do anything right tonight - especially not sending food back like she had told Tom that she'd do. The right person went home.

Originally Posted by ILuvParis (Post 12688295)

Seems like Jen was saved by her past and her reputation. Everything she touched was a disaster and she stays.

Originally Posted by ILuvParis (Post 12689539)

I didn't hear anything to suggest that the fish dish was "ok." I like Jen and it seems she's one of the more talented chefs, but I still think what saved her last night is her past. I agree that the right person went home, but I'm not sure last night's performance was the reason.

It's looking more and more like Bryan, Michael and Kevin will be final three.