I always like the Restaurant Wars episodes.
And this week, my favorite chef won, and my least favorite got sent home.
Not much else to say. Mostly I wanted to say hooray because…
Dale finally got his ass thrown off the show. Now he can check into anger management where he belongs!
It was no contest at all between the two teams. Let me see, we’ve got three good cooks who know how to work as a team versus one good cook and two less good ones, two of whom are hated by almost everyone and the remaining one who stabbed everyone in the back last week. The gentleman was watching to see who killed whom first.
I think Dale is the best chef of the three of them, but he made two big mistakes. First was the dreaded butterscotch scallops, and second was the lack of leadership. Spike did help himself a lot by taking over front of house and staying out of the line of fire. It’s much better to let two of your competitors take each other out.
I also noticed that when the losing team was asked who picked their decor, their initial reaction was not to take responsibility until they learned the judges liked it.
It’s such bullshit that Lisa is still on this show. How many times must she be second to last before she is finally asked to leave? She has been in the bottom what 3, 4 times in a row now? At least finally one of the judges commented on her attitude problems during Judges Table. She is just disgusting with her constantly greasy hair and bitchy attitude.
I too though Lisa should have gone. I think the “leadership” indictments on the show are always kind of bogus because the head chef is never really the boss. It’s not like they relly have any power. If someone really insists on making a smokey smoke laksa, there’s not much the putative “executive chef” can do about it.
Dale wasn’t good on this challenge, but Lisa was worse.
Dale? What were you thinking? Spike, It is amazing that I can hate a person so much. Good job.
Obvious blowout when the teams were selected.
And now there are five. I can’t believe that Lisa or Spike will make the top 4.
I only got to see bits and pieces and the end and needless to say I’m disappointed, I liked Dale and I thought he was more talented than Spike or Lisa. For as many wins as Dale has had and as many times she’s been in the bottom, it should have been Lisa who went home. I think it was a drama move. As much as people like to paint Dale as the big jerk, Lisa is much worse.
I thought he was classy about his departure and gracious to the remaining talented chefs. When he teared up I got all verklempt and wanted to give him a hug. If Spike and Lisa do not go next in no particular order, there really is no justice.
What is it going to take to get Lisa McBitchface OFF my TV? And Spike, this is NOT Survivor.
I want to see Anthony Bourdain on every single week. I flove him. “You’re not talking to your parole officer”- hee.
Spike and Lisa are seriously two of the worst contestants I’ve seen on any cooking show ever–Top Chef, Hell’s Kitchen, The Next Food Network Star, The Next Iron Chef, all of them. They have awful attitudes. They don’t seem to have any real culinary skill. I hate their stupid faces.
Oh well, at least the biggest competition for Richard, Antonia, and Stephanie has been sent home. As long as they don’t fuck up, Spike and Lisa will be disposed of and the last episode should be really interesting.
Oh, Dale, Dale, Dale. You should have swallowed your pride and volunteered for front of house; Asian restaurant, Asian maître d’.
How many times has Lisa been in the losers’ group, anyway? How is it that she always manages to squeek by? Lisa isn’t going to have anyone to blame for her failures next time.
Richard has 3 Quickfire wins and 3 Elimination Challenge wins.
Stephanie has 1 Quickfire win and 3 Elimination Challenge wins.
Antonia has 4 Quickfire wins and 1 Elimination Challenge win.
Dale had 1 Quickfire win and 3 Elimination Challenge wins.
Lisa has 0 Quickfire wins and 1 Elimination Challenge win.
Spike has 1 Quickfire win and 0 Elimination Challenge wins.
Lisa and Spike are also the only two who’ve been on the bottom more than three times without being sent home.
How it is that one of those two has managed to squeak into the final four is beyond me.
WHY WHY WHY couldn’t have been Lisa. I can’t look at that puckered beligerent face one more week. I didn’t like Dale, I can’t stand Spike, but I loath and despise Lisa and her greasy hair. How the hell didn’t she get tossed when she made TWO of the worst dishes on this weeks challenge.
That was the most clear-cut difference between the teams that we’ve seen in Restaurant Wars. In previous seasons, each team has had some good and some bad points, and it was not always clear who the winner was (Wasn’t it last year that BOTH teams were so bad that they had to come back and do it again the next night?).
Anyway, as soon as Antonia chose her partners it was clear that their team was going to be hard to beat. And it was even more clear, as soon as they started cooking, that this episode was going to be a walkover. It wasn’t even close.
I really thought Lisa was going to be the one to go, after fucking up the Laksa and the sticky rice. Dale is unquestionably a far better chef than her, but the judges stuck by their long-time practice of sacrificing the team leader in cases where the team as a whole puts in a bad performance. It was rather pathetic watching them all try and throw each other under the bus at judges’ table.
It was nice to see the quickfire winner’s “advantage” actually be something significant, for once.
That made all the difference in this episode. If Dale had won the quickfire, he said he would have picked the same two chefs, and I think that team would have won also. It could have been anyone’s game at that point, but once Antonia picked her team, you knew the others were going to lose.
I thought he was a good chef until this episode. Butterscotch scallops?!?!?! And he knew Lisa’s dishes were terrible but let them go out as is.
Still I would have rather seen him in the top four instead of Spike or Lisa. I also wonder if Tom had been a judge this week if Lisa would have had to pack her knives instead. Bourdain has much higher expectations for an executive chef and I think that played the deciding factor.
On the flip side, I though Antonia would get the win since she was the executive chef for her side.
"Dale? What were you thinking? "
It’s the temper tantrums and name calling. I don’t like Lisa either, but Dale has total meltdowns more than once.
Richard will probably win… I keep forgetting his real name because we’ve been calling him “Tintin” since episode 1.
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What’s saved Lisa time and time again is luck. Each time she screwed up, someone else screwed up worse. This week, it was Dale with his butterscotch scallops and poor leadership. Last week, Andrew screwed up and missed an ingredient. The week before that, Nikki had poor pasta, her specialty, and unsuccessful leadership. You get the picture. Wasn’t who got to be in charge this week decided by a coin toss? If Lisa had won, not Dale, the onus of poor leadership would have been on her and she’d have been gone, not him. She’s been saved because other people have either multiple mistakes or mistakes that were worse than hers.
By the way, what do you folks think about the claim that Dale can only cook Asian food? How much truth is there to that, and how much should it matter?
Yeah, really. I almost applauded when the judge said that it’s all about teamwork, and the bad attitudes of Dale and Lisa (and Spike to a lesser degree) towards the other chefs doesn’t produce good teamwork. I enjoy that British show (damn, I forgot the name, I shouldn’t do this before morning coffee) where the guy helps struggling restaurants to fix themselves up, and he’s always carping about how the kitchen is a team.
I understand the logic that says that the team leader is responsible for bringing the team together, but when you’re dealing with such ego-bloated prima donnas, it’s almost impossible for the team leader to do that. On t’other hand, from what we saw, Dale didn’t even try, he just bitched and moaned and yelled.
This week, like last week, I would have been happy to see all three of them go.
Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsey.
I really wanted Lisa to go. I can’t believe that either her or Spike will make the final four.
I thought Antonia’s advantage for winning the quickfire was too much. Once she was able to choose both chefs to work with, the outcome was pretty obvious. I think a better option would have been to have the top two in the quickfire pick alternatively. That would have made a more interesting dynamic.
The idea of being a leader is tied with up with having power, and the “executive chefs” on this program don’t have any. The judges should respect that.
Maybe the executive chef from the losing team should pick who goes home. Then you can bet the rest would take orders, as well as try to work together.
That sounds good, and it would have made last night more entertaining, in a rather blood thirsty way. If the executive chef chooses who goes home, that effectively results in immunity. If they did it that way, Spike would have been trying a lot harder to be executive chef and Lisa would have put up much more of a fight.
I like the idea of giving the top two people in the Quickfire alternate picks, but how would it play out? I’m pretty sure Antonia would pick Richard first, but who would Dale pick for his first choice? I suppose he’d have enough sense to choose Stephanie, which leaves Antonia picking Spike and Dale still winding up with Lisa. Spike, I think, respects Richard and I think Richard can handle him and Antonia probably can. Besides, he’s not going to mess up his chances. The result is you still have Dale and Lisa on the losing team and you still have Dale’s awful butterscotch scallops and Lisa’s failed rice, only now Dale’s leadership looks worse because he picked one member of his team. It seems to me like even if they’d done it that way, Dale would still be on his way home.