Top Chef All-Stars Episode Eight: Dale Needs a Girlfriend

Lest you think we forgot among all of the Super Bowl hub-bub, Loren Means is in the house with last week’s Top Chef All-Stars wrap-up. Take it away, Loren:

And we’re back!  After a week off, the remaining nine All-Stars were back last Thursday night for Episode 8.  Still in the running to become Top Chef are two of our locals, Tre and Tiffany, along with Antonia, Mike, Dale, Angelo, Carla,  Richard, and last but not least, Fabio.

For the Quickfire, the Cheftestants had to make dishes that would be solely judged on aesthetics. The food would not even be sampled, only eyed, by guest host Isaac Mizrahi. Really, Isaac? First Target, now the kitchen?  Put a scarf on your head and get back to the runway.  The Chefs had to pull from inspiration for their plates.  Concepts were all over the place from Antonia’s “giving tree” to Dale’s “graffiti.”  My favorite was Fabio, who said his inspiration was “a beautiful woman walking in the rain trying to don’t get messed up by the water.” It seemed pretty insane to me but Isaac went for it, along with Richard’s black sundae and Carla’s cucumber lattice. Isaac found Richard’s black sundae to be the most appealing and the Quickfire was over.  Now, I realize I may not have the aesthetic credentials of Isaac Mizrahi, but I personally thought the nitrogen on the black sundae looked like moldy broccoli.  Maybe you had to be there, but I would have preferred to eat Fabio’s tuna people dodging the rain.

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