Hey, awesome! The reunion is once again hosted by Andy Cohen. Except not awesome because I can't stand the dude as a host. He just doesn't ask the hard questions, and he gets all sweaty and reveals more of his hairy chest than I need to see, and it's not good. I don't know whom I would rather have host. Maybe Colicchio, who doesn't seem to shy away from asking the hard questions. Or Padma. Anyway, he introduces Gail, Tom, Padma, and Toby, and then welcomes all of the cheftestants, explaining that Jessie is sick, so she's not there. Not that Andy would have made time to talk to her anyway.

Andy starts by congratulating Michael Voltaggio, the winner, and asks what his plan is for the money. He hopes to open a restaurant, possibly with his brother, and travel a bit. He didn't win THAT much money. Although with the exposure from the show, and his track record, it would probably be easier to get investors. Roll the montage of how awesome Michael was this season, where he explains that he only became a chef because his brother was one, and he tries to express himself with food the way that an artist expresses himself on a canvas. And then he won a lot of the challenges, and the judges talked a lot about his food and how good it was, even when he didn't win.

Andy asks Tom what happened in the finale that gave Michael the win. Tom says that Kevin had a bad night, so he was out of the running early. And then Bryan's dishes were lacking seasoning (salt, specifically), and that's what knocked him out. Andy asks the cheftestants how being on the show has affected their restaurants. Bryan says that he was worried that his restaurant might go out of business before going on the show, and even while he was filming the show, and now his business is crazy. Kevin adds that there's a lot more buzz around his restaurant, and critics visiting. They had the High Stakes Quickfire this season, and Kevin ended up winning the most money: $45,000. The judges are shocked.

Andy wants to talk about Restaurant Wars, when Team Mission won the Quickfire and then decided to double down and lost all the money. Kevin has the chance to talk about how his team wanted to have fun and be nice and so they didn't elect a leader, and it was the reason why they lost. A montage reminds us that Laurine was front-of-house and screwed up the timing of the dishes and also wasn't attentive enough to the judges, but on the other hand, both Jen and Kevin screwed up their dishes: Jen because she took on too much and Kevin because his lamb was too rare for some diners. Kevin admits that he almost quit the competition because he felt he should have been eliminated instead of Laurine. Tom points out that he read recently that Laurine felt that Jen should have been eliminated instead of her, which if I recall, was the more common refrain from the usual blogs and forums about the show. Laurine looks a little surprised that Tom called her out like that, and then says that Jen bit off more than she could chew. Gail defends the elimination by saying that they don't know what went on behind the scenes when they are judging, and Laurine's performance was not good that night.