Thursday, September 17, 2009
Restaurants Wild, Wild Chefs: 'Top Chef' Las Vegas, Episode Five
Posted by Emily Hansen on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM
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Welcome to the wild, wild west.
Eli has provided plenty of one liners (Joel Robochun, the unicorn, for example), but his reaction to the campsite last night – “I think camping is asinine, we have electricity for a reason” – was his first real moment in the spotlight and my first real laugh out loud moment this season. His food has left him mostly floating in the middle, and therefore without much camera time, but his commentary is beginning to craft a place for him in the Vegas cast. In fact, in a season where the best chefs appear to have some of the most boring personalities (I mean, who would you want to play horseshoes with Bryan Voltaggio or Eli?), Eli may be getting the best edit.
If Eli's getting the best edit, it's Ron, the island centered and fish obsessed cheftestant from Haiti, that's getting the worst. After weeks with little screen time at all, Ron's cavity-inducing ceviche and eccentric behavior took center stage last night as he created a snake repellent from tree branches and begged for a sword to cut his coconut (“Does anyone have a sword? I need a sword!”). After getting picked last in two challenges, Ron seems to be the kid no one wants to play with, and his slightly odd behavior and gross coconut mojito aren't helping his on screen image. And even though I had initially wanted to like him and his Haitian inspired food, I'm having a hard time finding anything good to hold on to even in last night's cheftestant-over-food focused episode.
Appropriately, it was Mattin who packed his knives last night after weeks of wearing his personality on his neck. Although it was definitely his food that sent him home, after all his raw cod literally made guest judge Tim Love sick, his less-than-exciting personality, created mostly from his French accent, certainly didn't help.
Here's to hoping the real star of the season is back next week – the innovative food from this season's talented, and yes, a little boring, chefs.
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Mattin isn't Swedish... though what he says is sometimes no more comprehensible.
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Outdoor cooking challenge for ranchers and NO ONE cooked beef?!!! If I know my ranchers, they love their fish. Nothing better than a delicately prepared dainty ceviche at the end of a hard working day to make you go YEE HAW!
I agree that Ron doesn't seem to have the chops to make it on the show, but I hate hate hate how the show always starts the "dopey music" when they cut to him. It's insulting. I love watching our Atlanta chefs on there, but feel like the editing is getting heavy-handed. You can always tell what's going to happen if you listen to the music cues.
Ron, Robin, and Loraine, the axe is coming.... I hope they do another quickfire elimination next week, because they really need to thin out the ranks. Some of the good chefs can skate by with lousy product because they've known that one of these jokers will make something worse. It's time to ratchet up the pressure.
As far as the ATL chefs, Kevin will make it to the final 4 and Eli to the great 8. The winner will be one of the Voltaggio brothers; just don't no which one yet.
I quit watching it after the commercials became four times as long as the entire show. Lets face it the show is contrived (rigged), and pretty much sucjks dog balls.
It would be awesome if you guys stopped posting the pic of the departed on the front page of CL immediately after the episode so those of us who DVR it don't already know who gets sent packing. And to Meh, look into technology for it is there that you will find ways to skip the commercials. I think it's Kevin and the Voltaggio brothers in the final 3.
Hey Jonnymack, sometimes we post a photo of the person sent home, sometimes we post a pic of the person who won a challenge, and sometimes we'll post a pic of someone who did something interesting on the show. I'm working to keep spoilers out of headlines and places they may show up in RSS feeds, but we're gonna use some kind of visual, and it has to be of something.
Then how about make the visual of at least 2 people and/or of the food itself? I agree, if a pic is posted of someone, it prob means they played a key role in the episode - whether won or lost. I purposely avoid the CL website and the Omnivore blog until I've watched the episode for this very reason.
^^^ agreed. i recently unbookmarked omnivore because i would accidentally click over to the blog on thursday and have the episode spoiled. (i DVR it and watch it a couple of days later.)
Living up in the Great White North now (where Bravo is not the same as the Bravo in the States), I have to wait a few days before I can come on here because I have to download the episode. The hubby and I believe that the two brothers, Kevin, Jen and Mike I. (who has grown on my husband but can't grow eyebrows) will be the finalists. I miss Atlanta but I am still rooting for the hometown boys!
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