Top Chef: Hot Dogs, Sour Grapes, a Little Bit of Spit

The chefs take their action to host Tom Colicchio's

By Erik Pedersen Nov 20, 2008 5:47 AMTags
TOP CHEF, Hosea, Tom ColicchioBravo Photo: Virginia Sherwood

After kicking things off with a hot dog-making challenge, the chefs got to work in host Tom Colicchio's kitchen at Craft, but the results were not always pretty.

Unless it was the Fabio's carpaccio, which looked gorgeous and apparently tasted just as good. And considering the dish had to win over a bunch of disgruntled chefs who'd been rejected from Top Chef, that's saying something.

But the crab salad prepared by Hosea (above) disappointed, as did an ostrich egg omelet and a dessert that host Padma Lakshmi spit into her napkin. That's something we hope never to see again.

Poll

The Top Chef Week 2 Poll

Who's your favorite chef so far?
Italian dragon slayer Fabio
35.6%
Hot dog honcho Radhika
8.1%
Blond dreamboat Jeffrey
8.3%
Tattooed and tough Eugene
25.3%
Anybody else
22.7%

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