Top Chef All Star

[SamanosukeShiva]

all the previous season favorites are back.

Elia Aboumrad; Season 2, final four
Stephen Asprinio; Season 1, top five
Richard Blais; Season 4 finalist
Jennifer Carroll; Season 6, final four
Tiffany Derry; Season 7, top five
Tiffani Faison; Season 1 finalist
Carla Hall; Season 5 finalist
Mike Isabella; Season 6, top seven
Jamie Lauren; Season 5, top seven
Dale Levitski; Season 3 finalist
Antonia Lofaso; Season 4, final four
Spike Mendelsohn; Season 4, top five
Angelo Sosa; Season 7 finalist
Dale Talde; Season 4, top six
Casey Thompson; Season 3 finalist and Fan Favorite
Marcel Vigneron; Season 2 finalist
Fabio Viviani; Season 5, final four and Fan Favorite
Tre Wilcox; Season 3, top eight

Sitting judge for this season is Anthony Bourdain

I'm rooting for blais, he rocked on all the challenges on his season. Not really liking fabio this season, he's become too cocky and cant take criticism.

[Meat]

my 2 would be jennifer and angelo.

Spoiler: show

mad elia got eliminated already, on the plus side, she looked sooo hot last night

[Baelorn]

Rooting for Casey but I think she is outclassed this season. Hoping some of the more egotistical chefs will go early but that might be bad for ratings.

[Saga]

I want Blais to take it too, but I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Dale Talde win. Also people will probably hate me for saying this but I've really warmed up to Carla. Stephen should've gone home this episode. Fabio became way too much of a douche this season, and his hair looks like shit.

[Telamond]

Rooting for Jennifer and Tiffany. Two of the most competitive women that were on Top Chef.
I really can't stand Marcel... hope he gets eliminated soon too...

[SamanosukeShiva]

Rooting for Casey but I think she is outclassed this season. Hoping some of the more egotistical chefs will go early but that might be bad for ratings.

nah, top chef never spare anyone even if they're "favorite", last season was example when kenny got sent home

[Meat]

Spoiler: show

so pissed and quite frankly shocked to see jen go home so quick in the competition, she was my pick to win it all

[Baelorn]

Spoiler: show

so pissed and quite frankly shocked to see jen go home so quick in the competition, she was my pick to win it all

Not my pick but same here.

Spoiler: show

I also agreed with the losing team when they said the other team made some horrible stuff for a breakfast menu. I was thinking the same thing while watching them prepare it.

[SamanosukeShiva]

she deserved to go home imo, chewy bacon in a "bacon & egg" dish is a nono, might have been better if it was braised pork belly dish.

another one who cant take criticism

[Dantrag]

Can't be bothered to watch now that I know she gets sent home first. She was pretty much my favorite from season 6.

[Saga]

It's so hard for me to watch these episodes, I love all the chefs except for Stephen, it's like I can't imagine them cooking a shitty meal or having them go home. It honestly feels like the cooking is at such high level that each episode is like a mini-finals. Sure, there's a dish or two that just gets royally fucked by the chef making it but they're being extremely nitpicky with the dishes so far. I like it but it stresses me out, I don't want any of these dudes sent home!

EDIT: found this the other day, interesting blog post from Bourdain about him ripping apart Fabio in the first episode: http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.co...eling-remorse/

[Xerlic]

I'm a huge top chef fan and been watching it since Season 1. I'm kind of surprised that certain chefs are here, and kind of bummed that certain ones didn't come back like Kevin and Brian from Jen's season. It's cool that they brought Bourdain on as a regular judge. The funny thing is they had to replace Ripert as judge because Jen was on this season, but she's already gone haha.

I think the concept of All-Stars is pretty cool. The season has started off pretty crazy with what I would consider pretty big upsets occurring in the first two episodes, but I guess that's what happens when you put the top competitors from every season into one show. During the first episode I had actually picked out people who were there kind of as fodder like Stephen, Spike and Fabio to be eliminated early on, though I really hope they keep Fabio for as long as possible. He clearly has screen presence.

Elia was actually looking pretty hot in the first episode, so was sad to see her go. Based on the comments from the judges, though, it wasn't that surprising. In the second episode, Jen came off as a real bitch lol. I think she just fell victim to editing, though.

[Telamond]

Was so upset that Antonia got eliminated...

[Zeb]

Was so upset that Antonia got eliminated...

Yeah, I've been thinking it was going to be Blais and Antonia in the final for the past 5 weeks or so. But then Mike got on his lucky streak, and Blais was retarded picking the handicap for Mike in the quickfire.

[SamanosukeShiva]

blaise ftw then

[Xerlic]

Blais had this in the bag once Angelo and Dale were eliminated.

[octopus]

I've wondered, if Mike had to cook with one hand in that quickfire, how the hell was he going to open that pressure cooker? ;o

[SamanosukeShiva]

FUCK YEAH, best top chef season since season 3

[Karshe]

Really enjoyed this season, but I kind of lost interest in the finale... Richard vs. Antonia would have been a much better way to wrap things up. Was really rooting for Antonia!