Top Chef

Re-Hash

Top Chef All Stars Dinner - Cheftestants from all five seasons return to cook and eat a meal together, and rehash their beefs with one another.

Vegetables and Off-Color Jokes

Meat Natalie - The cheftestants first have to cook faux-TV dinners and then must cook a meal in a steakhouse for Natalie Portman, vegetarian.

ReVolting

Restaurant Wars - The Brothers Volt continue to dominate as they team up to open their fake restaurant with the help of Robin and Eli. Meanwhile, former chart toppers Jen and Kevin are in big, big trouble.

Pork or Cat Food?

Pigs and Pinot - The cheftestants prepare a dish for Charlie Palmer's charity event that pairs some part of the pig with a pinot noir, with varying degrees of success.

Salty Gnocchi

Dinner Party - The cheftestants pair up once again (maybe a sign that there are too many remaining contestants?) to cook a meal in the kitchen at their residence.

Magic and Misdirection

Penn & Teller - Like Penn and Teller deconstruct magic, the cheftestants have to deconstruct a classic dish while they try not to kill an increasingly annoying Robin.

Home on the Range

Camping - The cheftestants head into the desert to cook high-end food in rustic conditions on a ranch. Except some of them forget to actually cook their food.

Latin and French Don't Mix

Vivre Las Vegas - This Frenchified episode sees two chefs going home, one after a snail-filled Quickfire, and one after the traditional Elimination Challenge.

Wild Blue Yonder

Thunderbirds - The cheftestants have to cook a buffet dinner for 300 airmen at Nellis Air Force Base.

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Bachelor/Ette Party - The cheftestants have to whip up some fine cuisine for some drunken guys and girls who really only care about imbibing a lot of shots poolside.

The Old Top Chef Thread

Spoilers and Spoiler Discussion: 11 Herbs and Spices

S2 - Marcel Vigneron: I "Hacked" This Thread, Too

Top Chef in the Media

S2 - Ted Ilan Hall: Needs more SAFFRON!

2-11: "Sense and Sensuality" 2007.01.17

2-12: "Finale, Part I" 2007.01.24

Padma Lakshmi

Speculation without Spoilers

S2 - Elia Aboumrad: So Long and Thanks for All the Tuna Juice