Top Chef Improv

The show starts and Spike says the house is uglier cause pretty boy Ryan is gone (then he fake cries). Ha, so true.

Quickfire- Pastry time
cute guest judge is a "pastry icon" and alot of the cheftestants are freaking out cause they don't "do" desserts,or as Lisa says she swore to never do pastries. Oh well.

Spike is doing some kind of souffle in pineapple- a rum raisin souffle.
Richard- Banana scallops and guacamole
Jen- frozen banana bites
ANdrew- also banana and chocolate
Nikki- buttermilk cake
Dale- shaved ice and avocado
Lisa- yogurt and fruit puree
Mark- pavlovas with a weird fruit
Antonia- lemon cake

Least impressive: Antonia, Spike (although he gets points for trying the souffle), and Mark
Best: Dale, Lisa, and Richard and the winner is Richard (which I thought I remember seeing in the top chef cookbook, so it was kind of a spoiler)

The chefs get to an improv show at Second City, which is pretty cool. Everyones getting dressed up and there's some shots of Mark in his tighty whiteys and Richard in a pink shirt.
They are using this to set up the challenge by having the audience members shout out colors, emotions and ingredients. The chefs will have to cook those dishes for everyone the next night. The dishes are really random too.
Dividing the dishes up- Spike and Andrew immediately feel a connection and decide to work together. Jen and Steph get together, Dale and Richard, Mark and Nikki and Lisa and Antonia
Wholefoods shopping spree and haha Jen makes a menage trois joke thats a little weird. She's doing it for Zoi!
Richard is marinating the tofu in beef fat, which I think defeats the whole purpose of tofu, and I don't get why everysingle meal has to have meat in it, but ah well Richard thinks hes being clever so we'll see.
Spike and Andrew are doing a vanilla squash soup (vanilla,love, yellow is their words), and that sounds not bad.
Dale and Richard (perplexed green tofu) so they are making curry tofu thing. Dale goes into the back and finds there's no electrical equipment. Andrew starts hopping up and down saying dirty monkeys. So they are pureeing their squash with "love" instead of a blender.
Mark and nikki have purple depressed bacon (making pork tenderloin)
Jen and Steph- orange turned on asparagus, and making it sexual somehow
Antonia and Lisa- magenta drunk polish sausage (making some kinda fish sausage)
Tom comes in and tells them they have 20 mins to pack and up and go back to the house and finish cooking and serving there.
Back at the house they have 1 hour to finish everything
Nikki Winehouse is back in her interview.
Judges and Second-cityers arrive.
Spike and Andrew are up first with their vanilla squash soup. It goes over really well and the judges love it.
The turned on asparagus is next and Jen and Antonia give a cute little speech trying to show the sexualness of it and everyones laughing alot. It doesn't go over that well- too oily and too hard to eat.
Dale and Rich are next and explain that the tofu is perplexed cause it doesnt know if its meat or soy. umm yeah clever. It seems popular and everyone loves it.
Antonia and Lisa are next with their non-polish sausage and the diners are sad they don't get shots of tequila like the chefs. The judges think its weird that they served sea bass and not sausage.
Mark and Nikki are next with their purple depressed bacon dish. They made pork and grape sauce and sweet potato mash. Goes over well, Ted loves it and they say its comfort food for when you are depressed.
Dale, Richard, Andrew and Spike are called in front of the judges first as their favorites. The winning team is Dale and Richard. Wow those two are cleaning up in the competish and they get a crapload of kitchen stuff. They call in Antonia and Lisa and Stephanie and Jen as the bottom two. The judges rip A and L because they didn't use sausage. The issues with S and J was that the cheese was too much featured instead of the asparagus and the composition of the plate was a "trainwreck"
So the debate is which was a better dish or which one used the rules of the challenge better (or at all).
And Jen's out (haha) but at least now she can go back to Zoi and we'll only have one fauxhawked cheftestant.

Till next week...