Top Chef

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
6-11 Recaplet	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.	2009.11.04 2009.11.05	B	Kim
6-10 Recap	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.	2009.10.28 2009.11.03	B+	Kim
6-9 Recap	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.	2009.10.21 2009.10.27	A	Kim
6-8 Recap	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.	2009.10.14 2009.10.20	B	Kim
6-7 Recap	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.	2009.10.07 2009.10.13	B	Kim
6-6 Recap	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.	2009.09.23 2009.09.29	B	Kim
6-5 Recap	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.	2009.09.16 2009.09.22	B	Kim
6-4 Recap	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.	2009.09.09 2009.09.15	A	Kim
6-3 Recap	Wild Blue Yonder Thunderbirds - The cheftestants have to cook a buffet dinner for 300 airmen at Nellis Air Force Base.	2009.09.02 2009.09.08	B	Kim
6-2 Recap	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.	2009.08.26 2009.09.02	B+	Angel Cohn
6-1 Recap	My Vice Is Watching Reality Television Sin City Vice - A new crop of cheftestants arrives in Las Vegas where they immediately start to differentiate themselves through their experience and accolades -- not a lot of recent culinary school grads in this group! Wolfgang Puck serves as celebrity judge and manages to crack Colicchio up throughout, and the food looks pretty amazing.	2009.08.19 2009.08.24	A	Kim
5-15 Recap	Watch Nothing Happen Watch What Happens Reunion - What happens? Seriously, nothing much. Lack of drama during the season makes for a boring reunion.	2009.03.04 2009.03.10	C-	Kim
5-14 Recap	Ho No Season Finale - Part 2 - The newest Top Chef winner is crowned and it's the only person we didn't want to win.	2009.02.25 2009.03.03	B-	Kim
5-13 Recap	The Good Times, They Roll Season Finale Part 1 - The final four head to New Orleans, where they are joined by one of the previously-eliminated cheftestants, and all five cook a catered meal for a New Orleans party.	2009.02.18 2009.02.24	B+	Kim
5-12 Recap	Eat Like You Were Dying The Last Supper - What would you want for your last meal? The cheftestants have to prepare the choices of some of the biggest names in the culinary world and impress them and the judges to make it to the finals.	2009.02.11 2009.02.17	A	Kim
5-11 Recap	Gone Fishing Le Bernardin - The cheftestants have to try to recreate a dish by food God Eric Ripert -- to be judged by Eric Ripert.	2009.02.04 2009.02.10	B	Kim
5-10 Recap	Keep It Simple, Stupid Superbowl Chef Showdown - Former cheftestants return to compete against the current crop, and the winners and losers will surprise you.	2009.01.28 2009.02.03	A-	Kim
5-9 Recap	Sunset Lounge? Isn't That a Don Henley Song? Restaurant Wars - Radhika and Leah get the chance to open their own restaurants for a night, and both screw it up pretty majorly.	2009.01.21 2009.01.27	B	Kim
5-8 Recap	Old McPadma Down on the Farm - The cheftestants head to the country to create a farm-to-table meal in a team setting.	2009.01.14 2009.01.20	B+	Kim
5-7 Recap	Let the Bons Mots Roll! Focus Group - The cheftestants get more freedom in their cooking this week, but they also meet the new guest judge, Toby Young.	2009.01.07 2009.01.13	B	Kim
5-6 Recap	Cooking the Carols Twelve Days of Christmas - The cheftestants have to cater for a charity event with two hundred fifty guests. And then a refrigerator mishap gets them all working together in the spirit of the holidays.	2008.12.17 2008.12.22	B+	Kim
5-5 Recap	A Few Extra Mushrooms Gail's Bridal Shower - The cheftestants team up (always a bad time) to cater Gail’s bridal shower. Now with wedding themes!	2008.12.10 2008.12.16	B	Kim
5-4 Recap	Uncooked Egg and Spicy Shrimp Today Show - The cheftestants present a dish as if they were on a live television segment, and some of them don’t seem to understand the concept of a timer.	2008.12.03 2008.12.09	B	Kim
5-3 Recap	The Fighters of Foo Foo Fighters Thanksgiving - The cheftestants travel to Rochester, where they work in teams to create a Thanksgiving dinner for the Foo Fighters.	2008.11.26 2008.12.02	B+	Kim
5-2 Recap	Ostrich Egg Isn’t Enough Show Your Craft - The cheftestants serve disgruntled rejected cheftestants at Tom Colicchio’s restaurant, Craft, and overall fail miserably at creating New American cuisine.	2008.11.19 2008.11.24	B	Kim
5-1 Recap	The Big Apple Melting Pot - New York, baby! The cheftestants have to peel, dice, and cook apples in the Quickfire, and then they have to cook regional neighborhood cuisine for the Elimination. Gays! Lesbians! Foam! Weird facial hair! We're back.	2008.11.12 2008.11.18	B+	Kim
4-15 Recap	Watch What Happens: Nothing. Watch What Happens Reunion - This week's challenge: Stomach a big bowl of lukewarm leftovers, under-seasoned chatter and sour Andy Cohen.	2008.06.18 2008.06.24	D	Chuck
4-14 Recap	Top Chefanie Finale - Yoda-wearing, unflappable Chicago native Stephanie Izard becomes the first female Top Chef, while Lisa shocks everyone by outperforming Richard. And by not being a total bitch.	2008.06.11 2008.06.17	C+	Chuck
4-13 Recap	Pig Out Puerto Rico - The four remaining cheftestants cook some piggy ingredients for a fancy party.	2008.06.04 2008.06.09	B+	Kim
4-12 Recap	Beat This Meat High Steaks - Sure, Spike can butcher a big rack but a chef needs more than good hands, and he's a hack when it comes to making smart choices. Fortunately, the judges make one and toss his hat out of the ring.	2008.05.28 2008.06.03	A-	Chuck
4-11 Recap	Mai Buddha Sucks Restaurant Wars - After a stint on egg duty, Team Warehouse Kitchen wins the Restaurant Wars over-easy, and Dale gets fried.	2008.05.21 2008.05.27	C+	Chuck
4-10 Recap	It's A Sabotage! Serve and Protect - After trying to seduce mighty fine Sam Talbot with their sexy salads, the crew has to make healthy and substantial boxed lunches for Chicago cops. Spike uses his advantage to thwart the competition, but only cheats himself in the end. A phantom burner turner undermines Lisa, and she returns the favor by calling out Andrew for his whole-grain fakery.	2008.05.14 2008.05.20	B-	Chuck
4-9 Recap	Wedding Hells Wedding Wars - It's Top Caterer meets Survivor as the remaining eight cheftestants pull an all-nighter to cater a wedding. Nikki finally gets the boot for parlaying her expertise in Italian food into a refusal to lead her team and, well, crappy Italian food.	2008.05.07 2008.05.13	B	Chuck
4-8 Recap	Family Dinners with Funny Uncle Ben Common Threads - Antonia totally cheats and uses her experience as a single parent to win both a quickfire and an elimination challenge about stretching a buck and feeding a family. How dare she?	2008.04.30 2008.05.06	B	LuluBates
4-7 Recap	Flop Sweat Improv - After a Second City improv troupe delivers a colorful and emotional Elimination challenge, Jen does it for Zoi with an unintentionally comedic dish of phallic asparagus and gets sent home for erectile dysfunction.	2008.04.23 2008.05.01	B+	Chuck
4-6 Recap	Stupid Displeasures Tailgating - Ryan hits the road for his inarticulate -- but very wordy -- approach to tailgating fare, serving bread salad and poached pears (yes, you read that right) to hungry football fans.	2008.04.16 2008.04.21	B-	Chuck
4-5 Recap	The Elements The Elements - Which probably wasn't what Team Earth had in mind, but Zoi would rather talk about how she loves to use seasonings than just shut up and use them.	2008.04.09 2008.04.15	B-	Chuck
4-4 Recap	Film Food Film Food - The cheftestants divide into teams along gender lines and imagine dishes based on their favorite films for a movie-themed dinner party.	2008.04.02 2008.04.07	B	Chuck
4-3 Recap	Block Party Block Party - OK, we get it. If you're transporting food to serve later, choose your menu items carefully. Can we move on, please?	2008.03.26 2008.04.02	C	Chuck
4-2 Recap	Zoo Food Zoo Food - After grazing at a farmer's market for the Quickfire, a high concept Elimination turns the cheftestants into animals and goes to the birds. Blame-resistant Valerie gets axed for some bad-idea blinis.	2008.03.20 2008.03.24	D	Chuck
4-1 Recap	Salt For Your Wounds? Anything You Can Cook I Can Cook Better - In which that most elemental of seasonings proves to be the undoing of our first reject, twice in a row.	2008.03.12 2008.03.17	C	Chuck
3-16 Extra	It Came Upon A Sniff And Sneer Top Chef Holiday Special - The only chestnuts roasting in this episode are CJ's! ...Okay, not really, but any chance to make a nut joke, right? The ghosts of cheftestants past arrive in Chicago to duke it out for twenty grand, and Tiffani is the one screeching, "God bless me and only me!" (Bonus: Ripert dresses up as Santa Claus.)	2007.12.06 2007.12.12	B	Keckler
3-15 Extra	Relive The Boredom All Over Again Season 3 Reunion - As if this season didn't drag on for enough eons, we have now have a reunion to remind us of everything we just saw. It's the Alzheimer's Special!	2007.10.10 2007.10.15	F	Keckler
3-14 Recap	The Huynh Of A Lifetime Season 3 Finale, Part II - Hung -- the guy who "grew up eating," the self-proclaimed Certified Professional Asshole, the documented lover of monkey metaphors -- wins Top Chef.	2007.10.03 2007.10.06	A	Keckler
3-13 Recap	Rocky Mountain High Season 3 Finale, Part I - Trout and elk get the better of the Brians and their cowboy hat.	2007.09.26 2007.09.30	B	Keckler
3-12 Recap	Sara's Told To Cheese Off Manhattan Project - After chafing herself raw across two dishes, Sara the Jamaican cheesemaker is sent home. To make cheese, presumably.	2007.09.19 2007.09.23	B-	Keckler
3-11 Recap	Chopping Broccolini Snacks On A Plane - Breakfast in bed with Padma leads to the cheftestants cooking for the mile-high club (except they're on the ground and not having sex), and CJ is sent home for serving blackened broccolini.	2007.09.12 2007.09.18	B	Keckler
3-10 Recap	Hung's 300 Years War Chef Overboard - Hung trips out during the Quickfire and makes an edible diorama using Fruit Loops, but after catering a booze cruise for a new fashion designer, Howie's muddy flavors and grey presentation gets him sent home.	2007.09.05 2007.09.09	A+	Keckler
3-9 Recap	Draining The Tre Second Helping - After the second installment of "Restaurant Wars," The Garage changes their name to "Quatre" and wins. Sadly, Tre is sent home after executive cheffing his team to a loss.	2007.08.22 2007.08.27	C-	Keckler
3-8 Recap	Restaurant Stalemate Season 3 Restaurant Wars - After making burgers in an Immunity-less Quickfire, the remaining cheftestants do the fake restaurant thing, and no one gets sent home.	2007.08.15 2007.08.20	A	Keckler
3-7 Recap	Cold Stone Chillin' Guilty Pleasures - While working to feed drunk clubbers, Howie proves that he still doesn't know how to spell "team," but it's Sara N. who goes home.	2007.08.08 2007.08.13	B+	Keckler
3-8 Extra	Rocco's Got a Brand New Bag: Taste-Testing Bertolli's Skillet Meals for Two Rocco's Got A Brand New Bag: Taste-Testing Bertolli's Skillet Meals For Two - Two coasts, two brands, and two fairly opinionated mouths. Whose Lean Cuisine will reign supreme?	2007.08.08 2007.08.08	N/A	Keckler
3-6 Recap	OMG, IQF! WTF? Freezer Burn - Man, after this episode, tri-color fusilli will be as popular as an actuary at a conference on the Riemann Hypothesis. Coming out on top of the frozen dinners challenge, Tre and CJ are off to Italy, while poor Joey From New York is back to New York.	2007.1.001 2007.08.07	C-	Keckler
3-5 Extra	Shit Happens Top Chef 3: Watch What Happens - With Andy Cohen playing the hostess with the mostest, we delve back into the ugly glory of past and present seasons. Mostly, season two, though.	2007.07.25 2007.07.29	F	Keckler
3-5 Recap	'Cuz She's Lia-ving On A Jet Plane Latin Lunch - Hung strings himself up in a frozen pie crust Quickfire, but due to losing a Latin-loving lunch, it's Lia who packs up her troubles in her old kit bag.	2007.07.18 2007.07.22	A	Keckler
3-4 Recap	Eating On The Dole Cooking By Numbers - It's the first team challenge of the season, during which powdered gelatin rears its ugly head again, and Camille is sent calmly on her placid way.	2007.07.11 2007.07.16	C+	Keckler
3-3 Recap	God Save The Hot Dish Family Favorites - In an effort to tempt Elks away from high-cholesterol foods, the cheftestants are forced to remake such cafeteria classics as stuffed cabbage rolls, fish sticks, and tuna casserole.	2007.06.27 2007.07.02	B+	Keckler
3-2 Recap	Bye, Bye Birdsong Sunny Delights - Sandee is sent packing, Howie and Joey From New York engage in a Battle of the Bulges, and Hung is turning out to be a pretty sweet guy.	2007.06.20 2007.06.25	B+	Keckler
3-1 Recap	Tastes Like Chicken First Impressions - The season begins anew with fifteen cheftestants competing for all the junk that goes along with being Top Chef. Before we even get to know him, Clay from Mississippi is sent home.	2007.06.13 2007.06.17	A+	Keckler
3-1 Extra	A Very Special Episode of Top Chef 4-Star All Star - The best of Season One (minus Lee Anne) faces off against the dubious best of Season Two, all in the name of charity.	2007.06.06 2007.06.10	A	Keckler
2-13 Recap	So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish Season 2 Finale, Part II - Marcel misplaces his fish, and loses. Ted Ilan makes pinworms on toast, and wins.	2007.01.31 2007.02.01	B+	Keckler
2-12 Recap	The Poke's On You Season 2 Finale, Part I - Chef Alan Wong officiates this first half of the Hawaii finale, which throws Sam and Elia back to the sea and keeps Marcel and Ted Ilan for the second half.	2007.01.24 2007.01.29	B	Keckler
2-11 Recap	Scalps and Scallops Sense And Sensuality - Elia and Ted Ilan shave their heads. Cliff tries to shave Marcel's head but gets sent home for being a brute instead. The food was not even an issue.	2007.01.17 2007.01.22	N/A	Keckler
2-10 Recap	Foaming at the Mouth Unhappy Customers - Marcel raps and before being sent home, Mike references Charlotte's Web. Will wonders never cease?	2007.01.10 2007.01.15	B-	Keckler
2-9 Recap	Hate the Sin, Love the Dinner Seven - The hating of Marcel reaches a boiling point, and Sam loses it, while Ilan becomes an unhinged bully. But it's petty Betty who cooks up sloppy soup and goes home.	2007.01.03 2007.01.08	B	Miss Alli
2-8 Recap	Mia the Martyr Holiday Spirit - Mia throws herself on her paring knife to keep Elia in the competition.	2006.12.13 2006.12.18	A	Keckler
2-7 Recap	Surfin' So Sorry The Raw And The Cooked - Breaking fast for some hungry surfers has Elia riding high and Frank dead in the water.	2006.12.06 2006.12.10	B	Keckler
2-6 Recap	What the Turducken?! Thanksgiving - It's time for a midsummer night's Thanksgiving, and Carlos' salad-eating days are over.	2006.11.22 2006.11.27	A	Keckler
2-5 Recap	Ain't it Offal, Mabel? Social Service - After playing around with pancreas, organ meat, and Social Hollywood's leftovers, Josie and Marisa are sacrificed on the altar of pig's blood.	2006.11.15 2006.11.19	C+	Keckler
2-4 Recap	Cheaters Seem to Prosper Less Is More - With a vending machine Quickfire and a sticky children-based Elimination, it's almost as if we never left season one! No one is sent home, but Betty should have been.	2006.11.08 2006.11.10	B-	Keckler
2-3 Recap	TGI Top Chef Food For The People - After she reads him the quiet riot act, Marcel turns Blazing Eyes on Betty and tries to freak her out during the Sell Bravo's Soul to TGI Friday's Elimination Challenge. Also, Padmadala hikes up her shorts a little more and shows her world to us. But first, Marcel grosses LA kids out with his Cobb Salad ice cream.	2006.1.001 2006.11.04	B+	Keckler
2-2 Recap	Lycheegate Eastern Promise - Sushi, Ming Tsai, team challenges, and "shoplifted" lychees. Marisa unwittingly challenges Tiffani to a bitchface-off, and Otto is sent home.	2006.10.25 2006.10.28	A+	Keckler
2-1 Recap	Food, Fire, and Frog Legs Into The Fire - Marcel has ridiculous hair, Suyai is sent home, and we all learn how to flambe	2006.10.18 2006.10.23	B-	Keckler
1-11 Recap	Leggo My Ego Vegas Finale, Part II - Harold wins, and Tiffani LOSES!	2006.05.24 2006.10.16	A+	Keckler
1-10 Recap	A Minor Exclusion Vegas Finale, Part I - The toques come off in Vegas as Harold, Tiffani, and Dave put it all on the lineâ¦for room service! They cook for high rollers, poker players, and acrobats, and Dave, by virtue of forgetting a dish, is sent home. Amazingly, he doesn't even cry.	2006.05.17 2006.10.10	A	Keckler
1-10 Extra	Scenes From A Top Chef Reunion Season 1 Reunion - The cheftestants gather to drink, cry, apologize, fart, and rhyme.	2006.05.10 2006.10.08	A	Keckler
1-9 Recap	Truffle Pigs Napa's Finest - Using expensive wine and expensive fungal growths, the cheftestants prepare dishes for the chefs of Napa Valley.	2006.05.02 2006.10.04	A-	Keckler
1-8 Recap	The Cake Mix Controversy Wedding Bell Blues - Stephen is decanted and found to be corked.	2006.04.25 2006.09.25	B+	Keckler
1-7 Recap	I'm Not Your Bitch, Bitch Season 1 Restaurant Wars - After the cheftestants team up for dueling restaurant "concepts," Dave gets off his famous quote, and Miguel is sent home.	2006.04.19 2006.09.19	B+	Keckler
1-6 Recap	Snake Eyes Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? - Ted Allen shows up for dinner and tasks the cheftestants with a dinner party in celebration of him. Andrea and her colon are sent home. Again.	2006.04.12 2006.09.06	B+	Keckler
1-5 Recap	Jicama Dickama Dock Blind Confusion - The cheftestants sell street food in the Mission, but when Lisa forgets some seriously important jicama, she is sent home.	2006.04.05 2006.08.20	B	Keckler
1-4 Recap	Nuke it Up A Notch Food On The Fly - Nine TV dinners go into the microwave and one chef gets fried.	2006.03.29 2006.08.13	A	Keckler
1-3 Recap	Gone Fishhookin' Nasty Delights - Dividing into two teams, the cheftestants come up with a way to make children eat and enjoy monkfish.	2006.03.22 2006.08.02	B	Keckler
1-2 Recap	Bye Bye, Turdie Food Of Love - Stephen's fruity pretentiousness gets him immunity in the Quickfire, Miguel wins the sexy desserts Elimination Challenge, and Andrea gets flushed.	2006.03.15 2006.07.30	C	Keckler
1-1 Recap	Who Deserves To Be Here? Who Deserves To Be Here - Ken sticks his long, dirty finger in Hubert Keller's sauce and even in San Francisco, that's not a good thing.	2006.03.08 2006.07.12	C	Keckler

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