Looks like next week is new menus and at least one name change -- one of the restaurants in the preview was called "Quartre."
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
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Jessica - Aug 16, 2007 6:08:20 am PDT #1712 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
brenda m - Aug 16, 2007 6:35:16 am PDT #1713 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
If they had to do the same menus, I don't think I'd see the point. The menu was half the problem to begin with. Actually, that goes for all of it, except for the composition of the teams.
sumi - Aug 16, 2007 6:39:10 am PDT #1714 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
You know, it would be excellent to wind up with two African American winners and I like Tre better than Rock.
I think that they could makes some changes otherwise there would be no point and they might as well have named Rest. April the winners and canned Howie or Sara.
lisah - Aug 16, 2007 7:27:41 am PDT #1715 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate
I've liked Dale well enough but picking scented candles? And then saying that he didn't have a good sense of smell??? Crazy! I guess he was just trying to make excuses.
I love that they are having a do-over. That seems like it would be an important quality to determine in a Top Chef -- figuring out how they respond to a bad review.
sumi - Aug 16, 2007 7:29:14 am PDT #1716 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Yes -- it does.
I'm just so longing for Howie to be eliminated. I will be really disappointed that he doesn't go. And I am a little bit disappointed for Hung that he didn't finally get an elimination challenge win.
sumi - Aug 16, 2007 7:34:30 am PDT #1717 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
The extra for next week is already up I'm now a bit worried for CJ - it seems to feature him.
SuziQ - Aug 16, 2007 7:34:35 am PDT #1718 of 23273
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I've liked Dale well enough but picking scented candles? And then saying that he didn't have a good sense of smell???
This. Plus, isn't a good sense of smell important for a chef? I mean - as a judge that comment would put me off no matter what else he ends up cooking, and I like the dude.
I'd have rather heard him say that they didn't realize how strong the candles were in the store - competing scents can be overwhelming when shopping - but they should have caught it as soon as they were in their dining space.
As for Brian - I think he was completely rattled when the judges showed up and they were the first table to be served. The team had no chance to settle into service or work out anything - they had to be spot on from the git-go, while the other team had more of a chance to get in a routine.
sumi - Aug 16, 2007 7:36:32 am PDT #1719 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
Brian was not prepared. I can't believe that they didn't wash the dishes first.
At least they didn't have stickers on them.
Jesse - Aug 16, 2007 7:36:51 am PDT #1720 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Gawker on Top Chef: [link]
le nubian - Aug 16, 2007 8:10:06 am PDT #1721 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."