Block Partay

TOP CHEF EP. 3

The show opens and Spike and Andrew are wrestling/fighting in their bedroom. Bff's! Maybe that means one of them is going home like our doomed buddies from last week.

Quickfire: Mexican twist- take on the taco. Erik, in a patchwork straw hat, says fine Mexican dining pisses him off- its more "for the street"

Spike, also sporting a lame hat, says he's keeping the taco "street". I don't know what this means. Ryan's kind of hot. Mark is as confused as I am about the street food aspect of it.

Manuel talks with a spanish accent trying to sound all authentic and I guess it works, Paddy and the guest judge seem to like it.

Lisa is screwed cause Rick can;t even bite her taco.

Erik's sounds really good and there's pomegranate in it.

Richard's tacos look cool and he actually eats one of his own tacos with the judges.

Rick didn't like Eriks- once again his food's presentation looks like crap, literally. Ryan's was also in the bottom because he has a peice of paper on his plate.

He liked Andrew's alot- taste and presentation. Also Richard's- tasted like "street" but looked classy. Um just what you want in a dish. He also liked Spike's- good flavor. Diss to Manuel, he looks pretty upset he couldn't pull out a decent taco.

Richard wins, and gets his taco to be served at Ricks fine Mexican restaurant.

Highlander plug by Padma. Phone shot- oh same phone as me!

They are in the middle of Chicago in a random neighborhood, who's having their annual block party and want the cheftestants to cater it for them. That's going to be a sick block party. They can't go shopping though, they have to basically steal the ingredients from the residents.

The red team sends "pretty boy" Ryan to the houses to make people feel better and hand over their groceries.

Sabotage! Don't go to that house, they says, umm there's nothing good there (tee hee).

I think the idea of doing classics is a better idea than upscale food- since as the Blue team said, it will be like 70 kids. And you know those kids are gonna be like ewww what's that and throw some tantrums if they don't get their hot dogs.

I'm not sure what paella is, but the Blue Team is making that and something called a "sexy drink" and velveeta mac and cheese.

whoa giant bowls of meeaat. Yum. the Red team is making sliders, corn dogs, sangria and salads- that def sounds like a block party menu, but who knows is Paddy is expecting something different or good stuff. Zoi is unhappy cause she's apparently being forced to make pasta salad and doesn;t think that will win it for her. Chef Tom comes in to bother the chefs while they are trying to cook. Oh the sexy drink actually sounds cool, but also kinda like a air freshner since it has lavendar on it.

Erik is making lobster corndogs, and that sounds nasty so I take back what I said before about good classics.

Nikki is having problems with her transporting her mac and cheese, which is essentially the problem she had last week with her mushrooms and you would think she would have learned to make sure her food would withstand the travel time. Some people never learn, because they are dumb.

Block party time! Setting up and the residents are kinda standing around looking a little nervous cause you know they want to pig out right now. Nik's mac and cheese dried out and looks like shit, so she's dumping on cream and butter. Healthy.

People start piling the food on their plates and Andrew explains the sliders as "mini burgers, filled with awesomeness." Very descriptive.

The judges eat the food in private, so the cheftestants don't know what they are thinking as theyre eating.

The patchwork straw hat is making the rounds, since Spike is now wearing it- I don't know why they think it's cool.

Panel time. Padma calls in the blue team first. Rick called Nikki's mac and cheese a brick and Tom says Richard's dish wasn't Paiella. They declare them the winner- surprisingly, since I thought the Red Team def was going to win adn the residents seemed to like their food a lot better. They seem shocked when Stephanie announces she won (for her fruit salad and cinnamon wonton).

Red Team goes before the judges and they are clearly shocked at the results. They call out Erik's corndogs for being soggy, ditto with the waldorf salad. Spike starts running his mouth adn Tom calls him out again and disses Zoi's pasta salad and that it was oily and flavorless. This must be killing her since she so didn't want to do it. Andrew says he is NOT going home because this is HIS house and they'd have to drag his ass out of there. I think Erik should get kicked off but it might be Zoi.

Decision time- and yes Erik is out! He had some pretty crappy dishes in the past weeks and this makes sense. Hugs all around and he's gone.