Top Chef

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
11-17 Weecap	The Last Luau Finale - Nina and Nicholas each take over a restaurant to prepare four-course menus in the final competition for the title of Top Chef.	02.05.2014 02.06.2014	B+	Carla Sparks
11-16 Weecap	Spam-a-Lot Maui Wowie - The top three chefs arrive in Hawaii and are soon joined by the winner of Last Chance Kitchen for a Spam challenge and a "canoe crop" challenge to determine the final two.	01.29.2014 01.30.2014	B+	Carla Sparks
11-15 Weecap	What's Old is New Orleans Again Leaving New Orleans - After a two-part QuickFire, the final four chefs prepare dishes inspired by the flavors and experiences of New Orleans.	01.22.2014 01.23.2014	C+	Carla Sparks
11-14 Weecap	Career Fare Po’ Boy Smackdown - After getting served by the king of food trucks, the chefs are asked to prepare dishes that represent a turning point in their culinary journeys.	01.15.2014 01.16.2014		Carla Sparks
11-13 Weecap	Revolutionary Cuisine Oui Si a Challenge - The chefs are split into two teams and asked to prepare French and Spanish courses for a discerning group of judges. One chef's success in the QuickFire puts his team in a precarious position for the Elimination Challenge.	01.08.2014 01.09.2014	B+	Carla Sparks
11-12 Weecap	One Fish, Two Fish Mississippi Mud Bags - The chefs craft crawfish dishes, and then prepare a dish for the Louisiana Seafood Council that features local seafood.	01.01.2014 01.02.2014	C	Carla Sparks
11-11 Weecap	Pass/Fail/Puree Giving It the College Try - The eight remaining chefs make drumsticks for Questlove, and then head to a college cafeteria to serve 500 incoming freshmen using only what is available at the cafeteria.	12.18.2013 12.19.2013	C	Carla Sparks
11-10 Weecap	Home is Where the Stove Is Like Mama Made - The chefs prepare coffee-based items, then dishes inspired by their favorite meals at home, which makes them very tired and emotional.	12.11.2013 12.12.2013	B	Carla Sparks
11-9 Weecap	Double the Points, None of the Perks Restaurant Wars - The chefs of the New Orleans season take on Restaurant Wars and while one team seems to have the better chefs, the race isn't even close.	12.04.2013 12.05.2013	B+	Carla Sparks
11-8 Weecap	Porks and Knives Piggin’ Out - After making hot sauces, the chefs butcher an entire hog, using every piece except the soul.	11.20.2013 11.21.2013	C	Carla Sparks
11-7 Weecap	Potluck of the Draw Jazz Hands - In a loosely jazz-themed episode, the chefs are asked to join forces in three cooking "combos" and create potluck-style menus.	11.13.2013 11.14.2013	C+	Carla Sparks
11-6 Weecap	More Farm Than Good Campfires, Cream Cheese and Countryside - The chefs retire to the country to cook with cream cheese and farm-fresh ingredients at John Besh's restaurant, La Provence.	11.06.2013 11.07.2013	C-	Carla Sparks
11-5 Weecap	All Hallow’s Cheese Lea Michele’s Halloween Bash - The chefs cook for Lea Michele’s off-season vegetarian costume party and their dishes are judged almost strictly on cheese content.	10.30.2013 10.31.2013	B	Carla Sparks
11-4 Weecap	Pho King Travis Captain Vietnam - The contestants are tasked to create Vietnamese menus, which is a dream come true for one chef, who considers himself an expert.	10.23.2013 10.24.2013	B	Carla Sparks
11-3 Weecap	Commander in Chef Commander’s Palace - In a double elimination episode, the chefs are challenged to take on food trends, then re-create famous dishes at the Commander's Palace.	10.16.2013 10.17.2013	D	Carla Sparks
11-2 Weecap	The Good, The Bad, The Ceviche Rebuilding New Orleans - The chefs break into teams to serve Habitat for Humanity volunteers from food trucks. It is still too soon to make a joke about a hurricane of ceviches.	10.09.2013 10.10.2013	C	Carla Sparks
11-1 Weecap	Eat You Later, Alligator Soiree in the Swamp - The new season of Top Chef starts out in New Orleans and for the first time, as the elimination challenge takes place in a swamp, we are glad we can’t smell the show.	10.02.2013 10.03.2013	B-	Carla Sparks
10-17 Recap	Iron Top Chef Season 10 Finale, Part 2 - In a really disjointed, bizarre finale, the final two have to cook in front of a live audience like they're on Iron Chef or something.	02.27.2013 03.05.2013	C	Kim
10-16 Recap	Craft Work Season 10 Finale, Part 1 - Kristen's back and the final three compete on Tom Colicchio's home turf.	02.20.2013 02.26.2013	B	Kim
10-15 Recap	Mush! Glacial Gourmand - The cheftestants use multiple modes of transportation to get around Alaska before cooking for the governor (who isn't Sarah Palin anymore, remember?)	02.13.2013 02.19.2013	B	Kim
10-14 Recap	Don't Be Crabby Kings of Alaska - Now in Alaska, the cheftestants have to cook crab, salmon, and sourdough.	02.06.2013 02.11.2013	B-	Kim
10-13 Recaplet	Anchors Away Chefs at Sea - The cheftestants head out on a cruise to Alaska and learn a little something about shipboard cooking.	01.30.2013 01.31.2013	B	Kim
10-12 Recap	The Josie Show Wolfgang Clucks - Tom serves dinner to a gaggle of famous chefs, and the cheftestants have to prepare fried chicken.	01.23.2013 01.29.2013	B	Kim
10-11 Recap	Josie, Baby Season 10 Restaurant Wars - You know the idea. Who will screw up service? Who will be a control freak? Why is Josie made out of garbage?	01.16.2013 01.22.2013	B	Kim
10-10 Recap	Thai German? Really? Battle Before the War - They're messing with Restaurant Wars, you guys!	01.09.2013 01.14.2013	C	Kim
10-9 Recap	Healthy Choices Past Suppers - The cheftestants have to cook dishes based on memorable moments from past seasons, but make them healthier.	01.02.2013 01.07.2013	B	Kim
10-8 Recap	Going in Circles Jalapeno Business - The cheftestants go to the derby and cook dishes inspired by derby names.	12.26.2012 01.02.2013	B	Kim
10-7 Recap	Thank You Berry Much Foiled Again - Josie has completed her transition into the female Guy Fieri and Stefan and John go head-to-head.	12.19.2012 12.26.2012	B	Kim
10-6 Recap	Pork and Recreation Even the Famous Come Home - The cheftestants cook at a welcome home party for Chris Pratt and Anna Faris.	12.12.2012 12.18.2012	B	Kim
10-5 Recap	Cheese Curds for Life! Pike Place Pickle - The cheftestants use artisanal ingredients, poorly.	12.05.2012 12.11.2012	B	Kim
10-4 Recap	Parfaits and Calf Liver '50s Food Flashback - The cheftestants take over a family restaurant and revive the original menu from 1950.	11.28.2012 12.04.2012	B	Kim
10-3 Recap	Talking Turkey Tom vs. Emeril: Turkeypocalypse - The cheftestants divide into teams to cook a turkey dinner with Tom and Emeril.	11.21.2012 11.27.2012	B	Kim
10-2 Recap	Veterans' Day A Shock at the Space Needle - The cheftestants get a surprise when some veterans return to compete.	11.14.2012 11.19.2012	A+	Kim
10-1 Recap	Trim Your Bangs The Ultimate Chef Test - The chefs are broken into small groups and tested by one of the judges to determine if they even get to be on the show this season.	11.07.2012 11.12.2012	B	Kim
9-18 Recap	Stuff and Giggles Reunion - You'd be hard-pressed to know that Paul won this thing, since the whole reunion focuses on Chris Hollywood and the ladies.	03.07.2012 03.13.2012	C	Kim
9-17 Recap	Finally! It's Over Season 9 Finale - Paul and Sarah cook their little hearts out and it's still pretty boring.	02.29.2012 03.06.2012	B-	Kim
9-16 Recap	You're Hot and You're Cold Fire and Ice - The final three becomes the final two, finally.	02.22.2012 02.28.2012	C	Kim
9-15 Recap	Frozen Food Culinary Games - The cheftestants have to compete in Olympic style events while freezing their fingers off, because that's the best way to determine who's the best chef.	02.15.2012 02.21.2012	B	Kim
9-14 Recap	Tears of Joy Mentors - Beverly returns, and then Sarah wins immunity and doesn't have to cook this week. Those who are competing have to cook a meal for his or her culinary mentor, plus there is a lot of crying, mostly from Paul.	02.08.2012 02.14.2012	B-	Kim
9-13 Recap	I Know You Are, But What Am I? Bike, Borrow, and Steal - The cheftestants have to compete in a pointless Amazing Race-type challenge and I wish they would just let them cook some food.	02.01.2012 02.07.2012	C	Kim
9-12 Recap	A Game of Chicken Block Party - The cheftestants get paired up to cook the same dish for a block party, with three ending up on top and three ending up on the bottom.	01.25.2012 01.31.2012	B	Kim
9-11 Recap	Snow White, Blood Red Fit for an Evil Queen - A challenge based on an upcoming product-placed movie somehow ends up inspiring the best food of the season.	01.18.2012 01.19.2012	A	Kim
9-10 Recap	The War of Restaurants Season 9 Restaurant Wars - It's men versus women when the cheftestants have to open fake restaurants.	01.11.2012 01.17.2012	B	Kim
9-9 Recap	Salt Lick Texas BBQ Wars - The cheftestants have to cook BBQ for three hundred people in scorching hot weather.	01.04.2012 01.09.2012	C+	Kim
9-8 Recap	Mom's Home Cooking Tribute Dinner - The cheftestants have to cook a dish inspired by the person who taught them to cook. Some take that waaaay too literally.	12.21.2011 12.28.2011	B	Kim
9-7 Recap	Ugly Game Game On - The cheftestants have to determine the bottom three in the challenge, and it gets ugly.	12.14.2011 12.20.2011	B	Kim
9-6 Recap	Who Shot JR? Higher Steaks - The chefs work as a team to cook a really boring menu for a bunch of ranchers.	12.07.2011 12.13.2011	B	Kim
9-5 Recap	Progress Don't Be Tardy for the Dinner Party - The cheftestants head to Big D, where they have to cook for a progressive dinner party.	11.30.2011 12.06.2011	B	Kim
9-4 Recap	Totally Chili Red Hot Chili Cook Off - The cheftestants work in teams to create chili fit for a Texas cowboy, they hope.	11.23.2011 11.29.2011	B	Kim
9-3 Recap	Corn or Flour? Quinceanera - For their first challenge, the cheftestants split into two teams. And you know teams never work out well.	11.16.2011 11.22.2011	B	Kim
9-2 Recap	On the Bubble The Heat Is On - The final group and the bubble group compete in the play-in bracket until all sixteen chef's coats are awarded.	11.09.2011 11.15.2011	B	Kim
9-1 Recap	Pigs and Rabbits Everything's Bigger in Texas - Twenty-nine potential cheftestants are brought in and have to compete for sixteen slots on the show.	11.02.2011 11.07.2011	B+	Kim
8-17 Recap	Hootie Hoo! Reunion Special - There are the usual amusing montages and an uncomfortable discussion between Tom and Elia, but Carla saves the day with her awesomeness.	04.06.2011 04.12.2011	B-	Kim
8-16 Recap	King of Kings Season 8 Finale - Kind of a blah finale as there are no real glitches and everyone's food is good -- so very little drama -- but in the end, a winner is crowned.	03.30.2011 04.05.2011	B-	Kim
8-15 Recap	Twists and Turns Last Supper - The cheftestants do a silly Quickfire and then have to prepare the Last Dinner choice of a culinary icon. And of course, there are twists along the way.	03.23.2011 03.28.2011	B	Kim
8-14 Recap	Pros and Conch Island Fever - The cheftestants have to dive for their dinner, literally.	03.16.2011 03.22.2011	B+	Kim
8-13 Recap	Grease Fire Is The Word Fit For A King - The final five head to the Bahamas, where they accidentally start a fire and get to meet a king.	03.09.2011 03.14.2011	B+	Kim
8-12 Recap	Family History Give Me Your Huddled Masses - The cheftestants have to cook a dish based on their ancestries for their family members, so that means everyone is going to cry.	03.02.2011 03.08.2011	A	Kim
8-11 Recap	Gone Fishing For the Gulf - The cheftestants cook Gulf Coast seafood -- some well, some not so well.	02.23.2011 03.01.2011	B	Kim
8-10 Recap	T is for Target Lock Down - The cheftestants have to cook a dish for Target employees while locked in the store overnight, and they can only use items found in Target, all the way down to knives.	02.16.2011 02.22.2011	B	Kim
8-9 Recap	Fallon Down Feeding Fallon - The cheftestants cook some of Jimmy Fallon's favorite dishes for his birthday dinner.	02.09.2011 02.15.2011	A	Kim
8-8 Recap	Mobbed Up An Offer They Can't Refuse - The cheftestants have to cook Italian food for the owner of Rao's. Finally, a challenge where someone besides Angelo and Dale have an advantage!	02.02.2011 02.08.2011	B+	Kim
8-7 Recap	Etched in My Mind Restaurant Wars: One Night Only - The cheftestants divvy up into two teams and open a restaurant for one night only. It's Restaurant Wars!	01.19.2011 01.25.2011	B+	Kim
8-6 Recap	Gone Fishin' We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat - The cheftestants get to go fishing, and then have to cook what they caught, working in teams of three.	01.12.2011 01.18.2011	A-	Kim
8-5 Recap	Chinatown Breakdown Dim Sum Lose Sum - The cheftestants have to serve dim sum during lunch rush in Chinatown, and cranking out large amounts of food quickly nearly sinks the group.	01.05.2011 01.11.2011	B	Kim
8-4 Recap	Game, Set, Match Advantage Chef - The cheftestants have to serve head-to-head against their competition. Spike comes up with a brilliant strategy for his team. Well, maybe just a strategy. Well, maybe not even that.	12.22.2010 12.28.2010	B	Kim
8-3 Recap	Food With Jazz Hands New York's Finest - The cheftestants have to make dishes that would fit the menus of four of New York's top restaurants, and you might be surprised by who ends up on the top and on the bottom.	12.15.2010 12.21.2010	A	Kim
8-2 Recap	What Just Happened? Night At the Museum - Lack of sleep and an absent teammate lead to a really bizarre and uncomfortable Judges' Table.	12.08.2010 12.14.2010	B	Kim
8-1 Recap	Best of the Best History Never Repeats - Eighteen cheftestants return, many of them finalists from their seasons, to do battle in New York to be the best of the best.	12.01.2010 12.07.2010	A	Kim
7-15 Recap	…And It Feels So Good Reunion - All of the cheftestants reunite to discuss who is more cocky and what exactly went down with the pea puree.	09.22.2010 09.28.2010	A	Kim
7-14 Recap	Singapore Sling Season 7 Finale Part 2 - The three finalists set out to cook the meal of a lifetime, assisted by former winners as sous chefs. Except Angelo, who's too sick to even get out of bed until the final day.	09.15.2010 09.16.2010	B+	Kim
7-13 Recap	One Night in Singapore Season 7 Finale Part 1 - The cheftestants travel to Singapore and have to cook Asian food. You'd think Angelo would have an advantage with that, but the playing field is pretty level, and it's anyone's game.	09.08.2010 09.13.2010	A-	Kim
7-12 Recap	More Than Dippin' Dots Gastro-nauts - The cheftestants have to cook space food, and this late in the competition, it truly is anyone's game. No, for real.	09.01.2010 09.07.2010	A	Kim
7-11 Recap	Buy Me Some Peanuts and…Tuna Tartare? Making Concessions - Would you buy raw fish from a baseball park concession stand? Amanda would like you to.	08.25.2010 08.30.2010	A	Kim
7-10 Recap	Brilliant Disguise Covert Cuisine - Mystery surrounds the challenges this week, as the Quickfire features mystery ingredients and the Elimination takes place at the CIA.	08.18.2010 08.24.2010	B	Kim
7-9 Recap	EVOO vs. 2121 Season 7 Restaurant Wars - It's the episode everyone waits for all season: Restaurant Wars. And it gets pretty explosive at Judges' Table.	08.11.2010 08.12.2010	A	Kim
7-8 Recap	It's A Small World, After All Foreign Affairs - The cheftestants have to create a dish based on a foreign country. Some get countries like France or Italy, but Stephen draws Brazil and is clueless -- more than usual.	08.04.2010 08.09.2010	B	Kim
7-7 Recap	The Theft of the Pea Purée Power Lunch - The cheftestants get into politics when they have to cook a power lunch. But the big question is, did Alex steal Ed's pea purée?	07.28.2010 08.03.2010	A-	Kim
7-6 Recap	Cold Comfort Cold War - The chefs have to feed each other cold dishes, and Tamesha learns the hard way that this is Top Chef, not Top Scallop.	07.21.2010 07.27.2010	A+	LuluBates
7-5 Recap	Old MacDonald Farm Policy - The cheftestants head down to the farm to cook some local ingredients in the great outdoors.	07.14.2010 07.20.2010	B	Kim
7-4 Recap	Three Courses, No Waiting Room Service - The cheftestants cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for a product-placed hotel in a slightly ill-conceived challenge that nearly eliminates some of the most talented.	07.07.2010 07.13.2010	C+	Kim
7-3 Recap	The Patriotic Picnic Capitol Grill - The chefs embarrass America with their lack of grill skills.	06.30.2010 07.06.2010	A+	LuluBates
7-2 Recap	This Pudding is Bananas Outside the Lunch Box - The cheftestants divide into teams and, working with a tight budget, try to cook nutritional lunches for schoolkids.	06.23.2010 06.29.2010	A-	Kim
7-1 Recap	This Land is My Land House of Chef-presentatives - The seventeen cheftestants report for duty in our nation's capital, where they have to cook a dish inspired by their hometowns.	06.16.2010 06.22.2010	B	Kim
6-16 Recap	Not Much Happens Watch What Happens Reunion S6 - All of the chefs return for a lot of clip packages and some apologies.	12.16.2009 12.22.2009	B	Kim
6-15 Recap	High Voltage Season 6 Finale Part 2 - The three finalists create one more meal in the hopes of becoming the sixth Top Chef.	12.09.2009 12.15.2009	A	Kim
6-14 Recap	It's Up to The Egg At This Point Season 6 Finale Part 1 - The cheftestants return to cook in Napa Valley and try to muscle their way into the finals.	12.02.2009 12.08.2009	A	Kim
6-13 Recap	Final Four Culinary Olympics - The cheftestants have to mimic a legendary culinary competition by cooking a protein and two fancy garnishes for an all-star panel of judges.	11.18.2009 11.24.2009	B+	Kim
6-12 Recap	Walking on Broken Stained Glass Strip Around the World - Cheftestants have to each visit a casino on the Vegas Strip and then create a dish inspired by it.	11.11.2009 11.17.2009	A-	Kim
6-11 Recap	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.	11.04.2009 11.10.2009	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.	10.28.2009 11.03.2009	B+	Kim
6-9 Recap	ReVolting Season 6 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.	10.21.2009 10.27.2009	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.	10.14.2009 10.20.2009	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.	10.07.2009 10.13.2009	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.	09.23.2009 09.29.2009	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.	09.16.2009 09.22.2009	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.	09.09.2009 09.15.2009	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.	09.02.2009 09.08.2009	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.	08.26.2009 09.02.2009	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.	08.19.2009 08.24.2009	A	Kim
5-15 Recap	Watch Nothing Happen Watch What Happens Reunion S5 - What happens? Seriously, nothing much. Lack of drama during the season makes for a boring reunion.	03.04.2009 03.10.2009	C-	Kim
5-14 Recap	Ho No Season 5 Finale Part 2 - The newest Top Chef winner is crowned and it's the only person we didn't want to win.	02.25.2009 03.03.2009	B-	Kim
5-13 Recap	The Good Times, They Roll Season 5 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.	02.18.2009 02.24.2009	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.	02.11.2009 02.17.2009	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.	02.04.2009 02.10.2009	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.	01.28.2009 02.03.2009	A-	Kim
5-9 Recap	Sunset Lounge? Isn't That a Don Henley Song? Season 5 Restaurant Wars - Radhika and Leah get the chance to open their own restaurants for a night, and both screw it up pretty majorly.	01.21.2009 01.27.2009	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.	01.14.2009 01.20.2009	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.	01.07.2009 01.13.2009	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.	12.17.2008 12.22.2008	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!	12.10.2008 12.16.2008	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.	12.03.2008 12.09.2008	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.	11.26.2008 12.02.2008	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.	11.19.2008 11.24.2008	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.	11.12.2008 11.18.2008	B+	Kim
4-15 Recap	Watch What Happens: Nothing. Watch What Happens Reunion S4 - This week's challenge: Stomach a big bowl of lukewarm leftovers, under-seasoned chatter and sour Andy Cohen.	06.18.2008 06.24.2008	D	Chuck
4-14 Recap	Top Chefanie Season 4 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.	06.11.2008 06.17.2008	C+	Chuck
4-13 Recap	Pig Out Puerto Rico - The four remaining cheftestants cook some piggy ingredients for a fancy party.	06.04.2008 06.09.2008	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.	05.28.2008 06.03.2008	A-	Chuck
4-11 Recap	Mai Buddha Sucks Season 4 Restaurant Wars - After a stint on egg duty, Team Warehouse Kitchen wins the Restaurant Wars over-easy, and Dale gets fried.	05.21.2008 05.27.2008	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.	05.14.2008 05.20.2008	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.	05.07.2008 05.13.2008	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?	04.30.2008 05.06.2008	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.	04.23.2008 05.01.2008	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.	04.16.2008 04.21.2008	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.	04.09.2008 04.15.2008	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.	04.02.2008 04.07.2008	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?	03.26.2008 04.02.2008	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.	03.19.2008 03.24.2008	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.	03.11.2008 03.17.2008	C-	Chuck
3-16 Recap	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.)	12.05.2007 12.12.2007	B-	Keckler
3-15 Recap	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!	10.09.2007 10.15.2007	D-	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.	10.02.2007 10.06.2007	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.	09.25.2007 09.30.2007	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.	09.18.2007 09.23.2007	C+	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.	09.11.2007 09.18.2007	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.	09.04.2007 09.09.2007	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.	08.21.2007 08.27.2007	D+	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.	08.14.2007 08.20.2007	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.	08.07.2007 08.13.2007	B	Keckler
3-8 Recap	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?	08.07.2007 08.08.2007		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.	07.31.2007 08.07.2007	D+	Keckler
3-5 Recap	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.	07.24.2007 07.29.2007	D-	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.	07.17.2007 07.22.2007	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.	07.10.2007 07.16.2007	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.	06.26.2007 07.02.2007	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.	06.19.2007 06.25.2007	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.	06.12.2007 06.17.2007	A+	Keckler
3-1 Recap	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.	06.05.2007 06.10.2007	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.	01.30.2007 02.01.2007	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.	01.23.2007 01.29.2007	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.	01.16.2007 01.22.2007		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?	01.09.2007 01.15.2007	C+	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.	01.02.2007 01.08.2007	B-	Miss Alli
2-8 Recap	Mia the Martyr Holiday Spirit - Mia throws herself on her paring knife to keep Elia in the competition.	12.12.2006 12.18.2006	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.	12.05.2006 12.10.2006	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.	11.21.2006 11.27.2006	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.	11.14.2006 11.19.2006	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.	11.07.2006 11.10.2006	C+	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.	10.31.2006 11.04.2006	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.	10.24.2006 10.28.2006	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	10.17.2006 10.23.2006	C+	Keckler
1-11 Recap	Leggo My Ego Vegas Finale, Part II - Harold wins, and Tiffani LOSES!	05.23.2006 10.16.2006	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.	05.16.2006 10.10.2006	A	Keckler
1-10 Recap	Scenes From A Top Chef Reunion Season 1 Reunion - The cheftestants gather to drink, cry, apologize, fart, and rhyme.	05.09.2006 10.08.2006	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.	05.01.2006 10.04.2006	B+	Keckler
1-8 Recap	The Cake Mix Controversy Wedding Bell Blues - Stephen is decanted and found to be corked.	04.24.2006 09.25.2006	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.	04.18.2006 09.19.2006	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.	04.11.2006 09.06.2006	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.	04.04.2006 08.20.2006	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.	03.28.2006 08.13.2006	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.	03.21.2006 08.02.2006	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.	03.14.2006 07.30.2006	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.	03.07.2006 07.12.2006	C-	Keckler