" Thank you." " Yes, good job." " Good job for the win." " Cheers." "Cheers, guys." "It gets harder and harder, but" " Yeah." " And for the departed." "Tre went home, and I could've easily gone home." "My dish was probably the worst dish I've put up all season." "I mean, I don't know how you could make pancetta bland, but it was." "And it crushes me to the core when someone says my food is bland." "So that won't ever happen again." "Can you walk me through your mussel?" "No, I can't, because you're just gonna continue to be like..." " I will not-- - "mussels..."" "I don't want to--no." "I will not." "If you walk me through your dish and you convince me that was Italian." "For the Italian challenge, Antonia beat me with a bowl of steamed mussel with fennel." "It's a French dish." "It's not Italian." "You don't serve fennel with mussel in Italy." "Tell me about your Italian mussels." "What do you, speak softly to them?" "D'accord." "D'accord, d'accord." "Mikey, how'd that feel to be an Italian and be on the bottom?" "Such a sore loser." "Super sore loser." "Me and Antonia butt heads-- two big Italian personalities that both need to shine for all the light, and she's trying to take some of mine." "He's actually the only one who didn't say congratulations." " Take it easy." " You know what?" "Eight Chefs remain to fight it out for half a million dollars in cash and prizes, the most in Top Chef history, and the grand prize-- a feature in Food  Wine magazine, a showcase at the annual Food  Wine classic in Aspen," "$200,000 to pursue their culinary dreams, furnished by Buitoni, and the title that's eluded them all" "Top Chef." "♪ Top Chef:" "All-Stars 8x09 ♪ Feeding Fallon Original Air Date on February 9, 2011" "♪ ♪" "When I see the fondue pots," "I'm thinking of bell-bottoms and heels and" "I don't know-- maybe being naked." "My parents definitely went to, like, a nude fondue party, for sure." "Chefs, your challenge is to make fondue." "Fondue is a pot of boiling something." "You cook it in, or you just flavor it with it, and you eat it out of a stick." "This isn't the '70s." "We're not looking for bananas dipped in chocolate." "We want you to be creative and make us a unique fondue." "Would you like to meet your guest judge for this challenge?" " Yes." " We'd love to." "Look around." "It's you." "Oh." "I don't know about this." "Like, are we really gonna vote for each other?" "Are people gonna be honest about what they think about the food truthfully?" "We'll each taste everything, and you'll vote for your favorites and least favorites." "You can't vote for yourself, and at this point in the competition, immunity is totally off the table." "You know what?" "I made through the finale my season without ever winning immunity." "I'm doing it just fine without it." "And just to heat up the pot a little bit, the winner will win a three-day trip to Napa Valley." "I want to win so badly." "I haven't won any money." "I haven't won any prizes." "It's not over yet, though." "Your fondue quickfire starts..." "Now." "Veal, veal, you see veal?" "Veal, veal, Rosemary?" "I was born in the '70s, so I don't really know too many people who've gone to these gay fondue parties." "I've never made fondue before." "Not my style." "I actually love fondue." "But my parents never did fondue parties." "My mother loves Jewish deli." "I decide to do a smoked-salmon fondue." "I never know, like, where these ideas come from." "You know, it's all of a sudden a vision of my mom eating Sunday morning breakfast, and now it's fondue." "Can I borrow a handful of salt?" "Yes." "The first thing I want to do is what Padma said not to do." "And that is make chocolate fondue with bananas, because I think I can spin it in a way that people haven't seen before." "I just tried out my fritter batter, and it tastes pretty good." "I don't remember hearing about a whole bunch of fondue parties in the south." "The first thing that pops in my head when I hear fondue is dessert." "Anytime that the fellow competitors have to judge you, you don't know if they're picking someone because of their friendship." "It's rough." "Just give me the money." "I have memories of me going skiing north of Italy, stopping, get a little, like, oyster, caviar, and some fondue." "That's the memory brought me fondue, and that's-- I'm getting a spin on it." "Does anybody have star anise out?" "For my idea, I'm gonna draw from southeast Asia and bang out a pho." "Traditionally, when you have pho, they give you rare beef." "And it kind of swims in this broth and gently cooks it." "It's "phondue."" "11 minutes, 53 seconds." "Oh, my God, it's-- there's no time." "There's no time to do anything." "I really want to show the other Chefs that I am somebody of diversity." "So basically, what I'm doing is a deconstruction of a beet and goat cheese salad with endive." "Come on." "I'm gonna send Angelo, Blais, and Dale all to the bottom." "I definitely want to taste everyone's food." "We're all here because we all think we're the best." "I'm a big lamb guy." "I do a ton of lamb." "Really love the concept of my fondue, which is a feta cheese fondue with spiced lamb kebabs." "Five minutes left." "So bad." "Five, four, three..." "Two, one." "Hands up." "I took on way too much." "I'm gonna throw this out." "Here's a toast to all of you who have made it thus far." " Cheers." " Cheers." "This is sort of chocolate and bananas in a new way." "What I made was a little bit of a amaretto, chocolate, ras el hanout, chili ice cream." "This is liquid nitrogen, so it's very, very, very cold." "My tongue just got stuck." "You know how it does with a popsicle?" "But it's good." "Eating should be somewhat dangerous sometimes." "This is so much fun." "It does kind of feel like a party." "But then you have to remember, "oh, gosh, I'm judging."" "I can't just enjoy the food like I would normally want to." "So I did, um, kind of like an apple fritter, um, with a little bit of ricotta cheese and my version of a little bit of hazelnut and chocolate." "Tiffany's--you know, it's kind of this big, clunky doughnut just dipped into chocolate sauce, and it's just a little pedestrian." "Get dirty." "That's a commercial right there." "I think I've done it." "So this is a take off of, um, goat cheese and beets with walnuts." "I did a goat cheese fondue." "Take the endive, dip it in, and then, when you're done, just shoot it with pickled beet juice." " What is the juice?" " Pickled beet juice." "Angelo's plate's a little weird." "Like, shooting out beet juice, and I didn't know that fondue was supposed to be this complicated." "I did, um, a coconut curry." "So you have a beef tenderloin, and you have shrimp and a little peanuts in there." "That beef's sort of tender." "What is it?" " It's actually tenderloin." " It's good." "I did pho fondue." "It's a vietnamese soup." "It's a veal base." "It's got some lime, some hoisin, and some sriracha." "Smells good." "I did a feta cheese fondue, but I served it with spiced lamb kebabs with a little bit of mint and chili." "And these are already grilled?" "Yeah, I seared 'em on the plancha, so they're, like, rare, mid-rare." "I didn't like Mikey's." "If Mikey doesn't have lamb and Moroccan spice, he doesn't know what to do with himself." "I did almost like a classic smoked salmon on toast-- red onion, fromage blanc, and creme fraiche." "Mmm, so clever." "I missed the salmon." "It's still in there." "You want me to get it for you?" "Mmm." "I made my own billini with caviar..." "Uh-huh?" "Roasted lemon." "Inside there is creme fraiche, uh, fromage blanc, and Bourdain-- just like that." "So the billini should be eaten hot." "So they're a little cold right now." "It's tough." "I don't-- you have a tough job, tougher than we thought." "So I have a ballot for each of you, so make your decisions." "Cast your votes." "I feel like my dish is a winner, if there was a judge that wasn't my competitors." "I think there's a little bit of intimidation from the fact that I know how to do certain things that other people don't." "It's gonna be hard for me to win that vote." "I thought this was supposed to be a secret ballot." "We're gonna pick the winners and the worst dishes." "I'm gonna be honest." "I'm gonna be, like, New York Times reviewer up in this bitch." "That's Jimmy Fallon there." "I love it!" "Are there pots and pans here?" "What are we doing?" "Let's get the bad news out of the way first." "Fabio, Tiffany, Mike..." "Your dishes were the least favorites." "Dale, you had Mike on the bottom." "I'm sorry." "I don't mean to laugh." "I love Mike, but that was bad, man." "Blech." "I didn't care for the spice." "And with the feta cheese, it didn't work for me." "Dale put me at the bottom." "Monkey." "I don't think I should be on the bottom." "I know there were a few dishes worse than mine." "Now let's talk about some of your favorites." "Your top-three dishes are..." "Antonia..." "Thanks." " Dale." " Thanks, guys." "Angelo, you also were a favorite." "Thank you." "I'm very surprised to be on top." "But I know I could've done better, and I think that's the bottom line." "I didn't get a lot of love in this challenge." "I think that, stylistically," "I'm so different than everyone else that's here." "I think they're a little bit scared." "I've tallied the votes." "And the winner of this quickfire is..." "Dale." "I don't want to rub it in anyone's face that I won." "They know what's up." "You win a three-day trip to Napa Valley, including a tour of the Terlato family vineyard." "Congratulations." "Thank you very much." "We have a very special treat for you." "Please head to Rockefeller Center, where you'll find out more about your elimination challenge." "All right." "Thank you." "Mikey wanted to go ice-skating." "I didn't--I don't want to go ice-skating." "Rainbow room entrance, here we go." "This is exciting." "All right, guys, here we go." "Stand by." "20 seconds!" "We walk into the hall." "I have no clue what's going on, though its pretty awesome to be at the Rockefeller Center." "We're outside of the door, and people are screaming." "We're all a little confused." "We have no idea what our challenge is." "It's time for a cell phone shootout." "Tonight we've got a very special edition of cell phone shootout." "Higgins, tell everybody who we have playing tonight." "Jimmy, tonight's contestants are the contestants of Top Chef!" "I'm walking inside." "I don't know where I'm at." "And I'm turning around-- wait." "That's Jimmy Fallon there." "I love it!" "I can't believe this." "There is Jimmy Fallon." "Oh, my God." "It is unreal." "I'm really confused by this." "Are we having our elimination challenge on Jimmy Fallon?" "Are there pots and pans here?" "Like, is my Chef jacket here?" "What are we doing?" "Welcome, you guys." "Here's how the game is gonna work." "You're gonna pull out your cell phone cameras, okay?" "And a bunch of images are gonna flash by really fast." "You're gonna snap a picture with your cell phone as the pictures go by." "And whatever you take a picture of, that's what you have to cook for me at my birthday lunch." "So you guys ready to play?" "Yeah." "All right, good." "Higgins, who's up first?" "Okay, Jimmy, the first two contestants are..." "Antonia and Fabio!" "Come on over, guys." "Get your cell phones ready!" "Go ahead and say hi." "Antonia, where are you from?" "Um, I'm from Los Angeles, California." " Very, very good, and, Fabio?" " Los Angeles, California." "Oh, my God." "It's L.A. versus L.A." "West coast battle right now." "Here we go." "All right, both of you guys, turn around, face the 108, get your cell phones ready." "Start the loop!" "Could be anything." "Wait for it." "Wait for my command." "And shoot!" "Antonia, turn around." "Let's see what you got here." "I don't know." "All right, Antonia, this looks to me..." "Yeah, I hate to say it, but, yeah, it's beef tongue." "What's the matter, Chef?" "Cow got your tongue?" "Nope, we've got the cow's tongue." " Thanks a lot." " Are you excited about that?" "I'm very excited about the tongue." "I have this smile on my face, and I'm like, "no problem, Jimmy." "Beef tongue, thanks."" "And in my head, I'm like, "what am I gonna do with beef tongue?"" "Fabio, let's see what you have here." "You have a lot of pictures on here." "You have..." "Hamburger with french fries." "Ooh." "You'll be cooking a hamburger with french fries on top of the burger." "And if I have to explain to you what a hamburger is, maybe you shouldn't be on Top Chef." "I never done a "boorger."" ""Borger." Burgers-- I can't even pronounce them." "Who are the other contestants?" "Come on over." "Good to see you, buddy." "Are you guys excited for any specific dishes?" "Chicken pot pie." "Well, now that tongue is out, I'm a little" "I'm a fan of both of you guys, by the way--all you guys." "Thank you." "I'm actually excited about this." "Wait for my command." "Wait for it." "Ready, aim, shoot!" "Fire!" "Shoot!" "Oh, man, oh, man." "We're pulling some pork." " Yeah!" " That's a good one." "Ramen--it's just like what you ate in college, only it doesn't suck." "Philly cheesesteak." " Oh." " Real nice." "It's chicken and dumps." "Sausage and pepper sandwiches right there." "Got the king!" "Chicken pot pie!" "That's what I'm talking about." "That's right." "I'm so excited." "This is unbelievable." "You're so excited." "You're speechless." "This is unbelievable." "Look how much" "I am over the moon." "Just yesterday," "I was talking to Antonia and Tiffany about chicken pot pie." "Why" "I've been talking about chicken pot pie for a week!" "She was." "This is very exciting, then, okay." "Higgins, tell 'em the details of this lunch." "Chefs, you'll shop tonight and have two hours to cook tomorrow at Colicchio  sons before the party begins." "Keep in mind, Jimmy hates mushrooms, mayonnaise, and eggplant." "Happy cooking." "Jimmy?" "Good luck, you guys." "Have fun." "Oh, and my whole family will be there, so no pressure." "All right, now, get out of here and go shopping." "I'll see you guys tomorrow." "Stick around, everybody." "We'll be right back with more Late Night." "Jimmy is going to love my chicken pot pie." "God, I have a huge crush on Jimmy Fallon." "That was crazy." "Yeah." "I already have two wins." "If I win this challenge, then I think I will be perceived as a force to be reckoned with." "They didn't see me coming." "Where's your prime?" "I'm kind of nervous." "These dudes all grew up on the east coast." "They know what a Philly cheesesteak tastes like, and they're gonna let you know if it sucks." "Do you have more of these pretzel baguettes?" "I see these pretzel rolls." "If you think of Philly, that's kind of the two instantaneous things that I think of" "Philly cheesesteaks and soft pretzels." "Y'all sell green apples, sir?" "I think we got a team going here." "Three pound of short ribs, ground." "I will treat this hamburger like a meatball." "Two pound of briskets, ground as well." "My question mark is-- will be tradition." "Not sure about that." "Got mortadella for the burger, baby." "Ha ha ha!" "Animal." " All right, great, that's it." " Coming through." "All right, let's hit it, guys." "Blaisie, we're gonna make some lobster and shrimp ravioli." "I love lobster and shrimp raviolis." "Well, good thing no one's making it for you, Mikey." "Thank you." "This is my favorite one, actually." "It's delicious." "Are you guys ready for ravioli?" "Let's eat." " To great friends." " We made a-pasta." "At this point in the competition, you can kind of see the mile marker, getting to the finale." "The competitions have been harder." "Like, this is not just-- the level of competition." "The last season, I didn't really think through the pain or the personal embarrassment that were to come if I didn't win my season of Top Chef." "So now I have to win, or else the season wasn't successful." "Well, I love Mike's sausage..." "From way back." " You experimented in college." " I experimented in college with sausage, and I found that it was good." "Those things are tight." "No, wear those." "Whatever, man." "And have to listen to you guys all day?" "Living with Angelo-- he's such a pretty man, with his well manicured five o'clock shadow." "The other day, he had on a sheer-looking shirt that was like a purple dashiki and tight pants on." "You look like you got avocado on your pants." "These are Padma's pants." "I still think I'm a better Chef, even though he is a stunning man." "All right, guys, let's get out of here." "Let's go, let's go." "♪ ♪" "We head in to Colicchio  son to cook for Jimmy Fallon's birthday." "And we have to make his favorite dishes." "I got to make a good hamburger." "It's pressure on for me, you know." "Oh, God." "Chop, chop, chop." "There's eight competitors left, so it's really tight." "I haven't been working towards my strength." "My strength is flavors." "First things first," "I make a spice blend of coffee, allspice, chipotle for my pulled pork." "I know it sounds really gross, but I think it's good." "Yuck!" "Words like "beef tongue" to me just kind of freak me out sometimes." "Everyone keeps telling me beef tongue takes four to five hours." "Richard actually tells me how to pressure-cook it." "That doesn't have too much water in it, does it?" "Turn it down a little bit." "You want to let the steam out?" "No, no, no, no." "But I'm nervous." "Like, is my pressure cooker going to get this done?" "Oh, I love Richard Blais." "I don't know what's going on over there." "I think Richard gives too much information." "Everyone asks him questions." "Then they execute it correctly, and they're in the winner's circle for it." "I mean, there's $200,000 on the line." "I can't risk someone doing a better dish than me because I'm helping them." "What do you think?" "I think Jimmy Fallon's from Boston." "I definitely want to do my sausage and peppers" "Fenway style-- shaving the peppers paper thin." "Hopefully, he'll enjoy that." " Salt?" " Not yet." "We have 1 hour and 16 minutes." "Are those onions cooking?" "Hey, Blais, you got a microplane?" "I don't, Chef." "Like every little stony kid," "I bought the prepackaged Philly cheesesteaks, but I've never made one from scratch." "Dale, do you want any of this salt and sugar?" "At this point, I'm kind of nervous because I'm unsure a little bit about myself with the seasonings." "Last challenge, someone accused me of having bland food, and I don't want to repeat that." "Tiffany, are you finished with the rolling pin?" " I haven't used it." " Okay, that's fine." "That's fine." "So far in the competition," "I'm in the top." "I'm on the bottom." "And I feel like I'm mentally, physically all over the board." "A good mess is what we call it." "I'm changing up the chicken and dumpling because my family makes it a little bit different." "I'm gonna do, like, a southwestern chicken and dumpling." "Blais, fryer is at 350, right?" "I believe so." "No one" "I have not changed it." "35." " Right here." " Okay, great." "Thank you." "There's a lot of pressure, because the thing is," "I acted a complete fool and idiot about getting pot pie." "But I've never made it in two hours." "Honestly, I don't feel like it's enough time." "Aah!" "What possessed me?" "Okay, come on." "Watching Carla is like watching a chicken with her head cut off at this point." "I don't think that she's gonna make it." "Time, time." "Aah!" "Hey, how are you?" "Thank you so much for joining us." "Oh, it's our pleasure." "Nice to see you." "Nice to see you." "Hey!" " Hey." " Hey, what's happening?" "Happy Birthday, Jimmy." " Yeah, absolutely." " Hi." " Hi, Jim." " How are you?" " Hey." " Hey, gal." " Hi." " You look beautiful." " You're looking very handsome." " Thank you very much." " Hi, how are you?" " Good, how are you?" "Hey, darling." "We're huge fans." "We watch all the time." "You give a challenge, we pause the tv, and we go, like, "what would you have done?"" ""All right, I would have done, you know, corn flake into this."" "I love that." "Behind you." "15 minutes, guys." "I need this for the fries, please, guys, leave it here." "I'm making an American classic dish, but I'm throwing my own spin to it." "So this will be chuck, short ribs, and brisket, combined." "I'm melting the cheddar and put it on the side, so the guests-- they can put it on their own burger." "You're doing a great job over there, Chef." "I've never seen a cheese sauce in any burger joint in my life." "So it's kind of a little weird." "I pulled the tongue out, and it tastes great." "It tastes nice." "So I'm feeling confident." "I said, "I'm gonna work with it." "I'm gonna figure it out." And I did." " I like the tongue." " Awesome." "Okay, you guys, just be careful with these 'cause they move a little bit." " Uh-oh, here we go." " Yeah." "Chefs, I'd like to introduce you to your judges for this elimination challenge." "Head judge Tom Colicchio of Colicchio  sons, where we are today." "The lovely and luscious Gail Simmons of Food  Wine magazine." "Hi, guys." "And, of course, the very funny and handsome Jimmy Fallon." " Oh, thank you." " Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." "Absolutely." "I wrote that." "I wrote that." "Antonia, what did you make?" "I have beef tongue, and I did a play on sort of just a deli sandwich." "You have rye pumrnickel underneath, some caramelized onions, a braised beef tongue, my version of a cole slaw." "The burger is made out of, uh," "Chuck, brisket, and short ribs-- homemade pickle, cucumber, and pepper." "And, uh, I don't know." "You said burger." "So I don't like if you like cheese." "That's why I put it on the side." "I like the way he says "boorger."" "This is so nice." "Thank you so much." " Happy Birthday." " I'm so excited." "Let's start with the burger." "Are you putting that cheese sauce on?" "If you want cheese on your burger, yeah." " That's a good burger, man." " You think so?" "It's a different type of burger." "I mean, it's almost like a meatloaf-ish type of thing." "The taste was a lot like meatloaf, and the texture." "There wasn't that juiciness that I wanted when I-- when I bit into my burger." "I'm not a fan of it." "I don't know." "I don't like it." "And this cheese stuff is just pretty gross." "I think it's nice that he gave us an option." "You know, if we rubbed this all over your head and stuck you between bars, you'd hate cheese too." "No one knows the mayonnaise story." " I know the story." " You know the mayonnaise story." "The reason I don't like mayonnaise, my wife thinks-- we had to play in the backyard, and I just got bored, and I stuck my head between these two railings." "Couldn't get my head out of the bars." "So my grandmother goes, "I know how to do it." ""Let's rub mayonnaise all over his head and slide him out."" " Wow." " Then they popped him out." "I guess that means that you probably like" "Antonia's beef tongue, since it didn't have mayonnaise in it." "I really liked it." "I think this is a tricky one." "This is the curveball." "I think she knocked it out of the park." "It all tasted really great together." "I love the onions and pickles." "I think it was a great idea." "I think she licked the challenge." "That's a great one." "Oh, my God." "Sorry." "Sorry, sorry, sorry." "I am excited about my dish." "It is risky, in the fact that I'm doing something nontraditional, but it's freakin' flavorful." "So a good dish is a good dish." " You doing okay?" " Mm-hmm." "The fact that I got ramen noodles makes me a little nervous." "It's rare that I just focus on trying to deliver something that's authentic." "But it's really important to me to show that I don't need a helmet," "40 pounds of dry ice, and a flamethrower to make my food exciting." "I think it's gonna be Richard Blais enough." " Hello." " Hi." "I'm an oodles of noodles guy." "This is my first time making ramen without the flavor pack." "Duck legs, pork belly, and that's a duck egg as well." "I did chicken and dumplings-- dumplings which I made a little bit of roasted red peppers and poblanos, a little bit of cilantro and lime." "I'm calling this one "not my mom's chicken and dumplings."" "Perfect." "Thank you." "Again with the congealed." "That's the way they do it in Japan, yeah." "It's considered a compliment, you guys." "It's true, that's true." "I think Richard did a good job." "I like the way the egg was cooked." "It was very nice." "I think I was expecting, like, a smoke machine, laser beams to come out, as a Richard fan." "I have all his baseball cards." "I have everything, posters." "It wasn't a home run." "He bunted." "And I really wanted him to swing for the fences." "Chicken dump, right?" "You call it chicken dump?" " This is my favorite dish." " I love the lime in it." "It tasted really delicious." "I do like spice, but I think it was a little bit spicy for me." "It's like tortilla soup with some dough noodles in it." "This is the first thing I finished, and I'm a man of girth." "I enjoy food, but-- man of girth was your first album, right?" "That was my first-- second album." "Second album." "The first one was self-titled." "No, it was a filthy title." "I couldn't say it." "Girth of a nation was the first one." "Girth of a nation was the first one." " Girth, wind, and fire." " Yeah, girth, wind, and fire." "7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12." "Aah!" "I need a bowl!" "Can I use right here?" "Yes, yes, yes." "I'm just gonna take every measure to make sure that Carla doesn't come anywhere near my food." "As time is dwindling down, I'm happy with my sandwiches." "When I put them on the plate, I was like," ""wow, these things look good." Like, "I'd want to eat that."" "My plates aren't wiped." "Gentle." "Thank you, sir." "I did it." "I got it done." "Nobody can tell me that this is not a bomb-diggity chicken pot pie." " Carla, what did you make?" " Chicken pot pie." "Yay!" "Oh, my God, I think you're my angel, because you made it happen." "And the little dust, because I love peas, are dehydrated peas." "It's a little pea salt." "Please enjoy." "I made a Philly cheesesteak." "Philly, I always think of soft pretzel rolls." "I did a shaved rib eye, cheese sauce instead of cheez whiz, onions braised in spicy hot sauce." "Enjoy." "I'm really excited about this." "Dale's Philly cheesesteak-- the meat was very, very tender." "I enjoyed it." "I mean, the presentation was awesome." "Like, this should be the greatest sandwich of my life." "And then the salt monster just attacked me." "It was too much salt." "I love the onions with the spicy Buffalo-wi sauce." "It was just salty." "I think we're all clear." "Mmm, sage-y." "It's comforting." "It's delicious." "I love the pea salt." "I didn't know there was such thing as a pea salt." "Tom, what do you think of Carla's pot pie?" "Too busy eating." "She delivered." "It's great." "This is so good, I can't stop eating it." "Doesn't it-- Higgins!" "Higgins, no!" "Higgins, this is my-- give me that." "Give me that." "Give me that." "It's really good, Carla." "Aah." "As I'm putting up my pork sandwich, I feel great, and I think this is the first time in the whole competition" "I've felt this confident." "Don't knock that over..." "Please." "." "Mikey, you're knocking it over, dude." "I didn't knock it over." "Why you got to blame everything on me all the time?" "Why not?" "Be gentle." "Thank you." " Hello." " Hey, guys." "I have a barbecued pulled pork." "I made a coffee, allspice, and chipotle rub, if you would." "Cooked it in ketchup, vinegar, little brown sugar and just glazed it in a luscious liquid." "I have sausage and peppers, Fenway style." "Shave all the garlic, onions, and peppers on a--on a slicer." "And then I made my own sausage with some fennel, chili, pork belly, pork shoulder, and lots of paprika." "Thank you." "Mmm." "Angelo, home run." "This sauce is just amazing." "Coffee and dill-- it's so unexpected." " You pull your own pork." " I pull my own pork a lot." "But if Angelo's gonna pull it for me, God bless him." "What'd you think of Mike's sausage and peppers?" "I loved how all the peppers and onions were so thin and soaked up the flavors of the-- of the sausage." "My mom makes sausage and peppers all the time, so this I love." " Thanks, Gloria." " Sorry, mom, but-- because you finished a lot of Mike's sausage." "Well, I love Mike's sausage..." "From way back." "You experimented in college." "I experimented in college with sausage, and I found that, uh, I-I-it was good." "What do you think about the sausage?" "It needs more fat." " This was so great." " Thanks for having us." "Cheers, and thanks to all the Chefs for working so hard." "That was great." " Happy Birthday." " No, no." " Happy Birthday." " What is going on?" "Happy, Happy Birthday." "I'm making a wish." "Happy Birthday, Jimmy." "Oh, it's gonna come true." "Yeah, that's so good." "Is this an ice cream cake?" "Yes." "I love ice-- that's my favorite!" "Ice cream cakes!" "You guys are the best!" "I had the best birthday lunch I've ever had, thanks to you guys and you guys and my family." "But I will say that the winner of this, uh, will also get a cooking segment on late night with Jimmy Fallon, so I'll be seeing one of you back at the studio, and it'll be fun." "And we'll have fun, late night style." "At this point in time," "I'm just like, "I got to win this." "I really want to be on the show."" "Jimmy..." "Tom, Gail, we got to get back to the judges' table." "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "This was super good times." "It got really grainy and just-- this is the worst, 'cause I love you guys so much." "I'm gonna have to go out and have a couple drinks after this." "How's everything at Food  Wine?" "It's quite excellent, thank you very much." "Thanks for asking." "I appreciate that." "Let me tell you-- this is a true story." "I did an article for Food  Wine." "And they go, "Jimmy, if your mom has any recipes, we'll publish it in the magazine."" "So she calls up." "She gives me a cheesecake recipe." "They call up." "They go, "we took your mom's recipe, and it's fantastic."" "So I call her." "I go, "mom, they loved the recipe." "They want to know, did you get it anywhere?"" "She goes, "I think I did." "Let me check." "I'll tell you."" "And she goes, "yeah, I got it from Food  Wine magazine."" "It's true." "Oh, my God." "Okay, Dale, thank you, because you were like," ""are you gonna use this other piece of crust?" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "I just see this big poof flopping around the other side of the kitchen" ""aah, aah!"" "It was stressful." "The whole thing was very stressful to me." "Hi, guys." "We'd like to see Carla, Angelo, and Antonia." "Thank you." " Good luck, guys." " Good luck, guys." "♪ ♪" "Chefs..." "The three of you served the best dishes at lunch today, so congratulations." "I couldn't even believe what you guys did." "I just had the greatest birthday lunch ever." " Whew." "Thank you." " Thank you." "The idea of coffee and dill, cilantro-- this stuff shouldn't make sense." "But it all did." "It all--it all-- yeah, that almost sounds like a dare." "It all-- yeah, it does." "I dare you to make that taste good." "It was savory." "Everything there really came together well." " Thank you." " Carla." "I was like, "oh, yes." "I'm gonna make a chicken pot pie."" "If you noticed, I put some of the crust on the bottom, because when you-  we noticed." " Oh, we noticed." " Oh, my God." " We applaud you for that." "Is that, like, the favorite thing ever?" "That's what I'm saying." "That is my thing." "That--I tot-- when I get a pot pie, if there's no crust on the bottom," "I'm out." " Yes!" " I am out." " Yes." " I get annoyed." "It brought back great memories." "And you could tell that there was love put into this." "Thank you." " Antonia." " Yes." "When you got tongue, were you kind of psyched or just like, "oh, God"?" "I've never cooked or eaten beef tongue." "I have cooked it, actually." "It's on my menu." "It's on your menu." "I saw it." " Yeah, it's on my menu." " I was like, "great."" "And now--no, you did a great job with it, especially in the time allotted to cook it, 'cause that usually takes a long time to cook." "You got thrown a curveball, and you connected and hit it out of the park." "We actually have a beef tongue song." "And they have sort of championed me on." "Yeah, we did a song last night." "Would you like to sing it for us?" "Okay." "♪ Beef tongue, beef tongue ♪" "♪ beef tongue, beef tongue ♪ ♪ beeeeef tongue ♪" "♪ gotta make the beef tongue ♪" "♪ gotta make the beef tongue ♪" "♪ beeeef tongue ♪" "This is a Top Chef first, everybody." "You guys deserve to sing and celebrate." "Jimmy, as our guest judge, you have the honor of announcing the winner, who will be a guest on your show." "The person we thought did the best job is..." "Carla." "Yeah!" "I will see you on my show." "I can't wait for you to come on late night." "We're gonna have fun, late night." "We're gonna have fun!" "This is my third win." "I am so excited." "Thank you, thank you, thank you." " So awesome." " Thank you so much." "Not only do you get to go on Jimmy's show, you get a six-night trip to Hilton Tokyo..." "Oh, my God!" "She gets to go around the world." "Along with $5,000 for airfare, furnished by Hilton hotels and resorts." "Tokyo!" "This is my third trip." "Please send back some of your colleagues." "That was so good." "I won." "So they want to see Tiffany, Fabio, and Dale." " Good luck, you guys." " All righty." "See you guys in a little bit, papi." " Dude, she's going to Tokyo." " I'm going to Tokyo." "Get the Out of here." "It's really fun to see my colleagues get worked up about Carla winning her third elimination challenge and her third trip." "But I'm not intimidated." "You don't have to win until the end." "Mikey, you're taking the bottom middle today--sorry." "I'll take it." "♪ ♪" "Unfortunately, the three of you served our least favorite dishes in the lunch today." "And one of you will be going home." "Let's start with Tiffany." "Chicken and dumplings is so much about the dumpling." "And it was, like, a flat dumpling." "I rolled 'em too thin." "I knew it too." "So I know exactly where you're going." "I want more of that gravy, comfort, dough-ball thing." "It was a different look at it." "Yeah." "Fabio, I think you treated that Patty, that hamburger Patty, almost like a meatball." "It got Chuck, brisket, short ribs, smoked pork belly." "Just beef, I was afraid it would be dry out." "It missed some of that juicy, beefy moistness that I was looking for." "It wasn't a hamburger with french fries on it." "It was more like a meatloaf." "But by far, the worst thing on the plate was that cheddar cheese." "It got really grainy and granular and just" "Dale." "It's just--the salt monster just killed me." "I drank a keg of beer, and I'm currently intoxicated." "I-I think I was a little spooked from last challenge, saying it was bland." "That's what really crushed me." "At my last challenge, someone said my food was bland." "The bread had a lot of salt on it, combined with the hot sauce, which I'm sure has a lot of sodium, together, it was really just like salt lick on top of salt lick." "I'm sorry." "This is the worst, 'cause I love you guys so much." "I'm a fan of you." "I'm a fan of you." "I'm a fan of, like-- from the show." "And this sucks for you guys." "I don't know how you do this." "I'm gonna have to really, um, go out and have a couple drinks after this." "Please return to the stew room." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Hey." " Okay." "What's the word, bird?" " It's nitpicking time." " That's what we thought." "You know the rock salt on the pretzel bread?" "And I totally Just forgot about it." "My cheese sauce curdle when it got to the table, so that was not-- it was not pleasing to see." "It's gonna be tight." "You know, it was such a fun birthday party, and the food was so good." "It's gonna be hard to send someone home." "When we're having so much fun, you kind of forget that there's the business end of this thing too." "Such a bummer, 'cause it was three great ones." "Let's talk about Tiffany's chicken and dumplings." "I think that Tiffany masked the chicken with everything else-- the jalapeño, the lime, the corn, the peppers." "That's the sort of downfall of when you're doing food like this." "We all have sort of ideas about what it should be like." "You think chicken and dumplings, that certainly doesn't come to mind at all." "You wanted that doughy-ness." "You wanted that fun." "You wanted the gravy-ness." "And you didn't get that." "Dumplings just didn't feel like a dumpling." "Let's talk about Fabio." " Ugh, it wasn't a hamburger." " It's not a burger." "A burger is beef, 100% beef." "It's loosely formed." "It's cooked, and it's juicy." "This wasn't juicy." "To do meatloaf instead of a hamburger was like, "oh, he went that way."" "It's just-- the focus point of the dish, the Patty itself, fell short." "Yeah." "Dale's dish." "First bite was great." "And then the second bite was salty." "And the third bite, you go," ""I'm gonna ruin everything else."" "That bread had a layer of rock salt on top of it." "The steak, when you're seasoning it, you have to think about how it's all gonna come together because you're eating it as a sandwich." " It destroyed the dish." " Taste your food." "You have to taste your food." "That's like-- come on, that's day one." " I guess we have our answer." " Mm-hmm." "Ugh." "♪ ♪" "Chefs, for tonight's challenge, you were asked to make some of Jimmy's favorite foods for his birthday party, and in each case, your dish did not bring us to those happy places that these foods can." "Unfortunately for one of you, the party's over." "Tiffany, chicken and dumplings is about chicken with a rich sauce and big, Fluffy dumplings." "It's not a clear soup with flat noodles." "Fabio, instead of a juicy burger, we got dry meatloaf." "Dale, Philly cheesesteak, too much salt on that dish-- couldn't get past that." "And we were looking for great versions of these dishes." "We had a blast today." "But unfortunately, there is a business end to this competition." "♪ ♪" "Fabio..." "Please pack your knives and go." "Wow." "Happy as you could possibly be." "I don't feel good going home right now." "I wish I would stick around little bit longer." "Got to sell that one, man." "I love you, man." "Don't cry." " I love you, dude." " I'm gonna cry." "Don't cry." "I'm laughing." "I love Jimmy Fallon." "But the fact that he came on my show and sent me home, that's not good, Jimmy." "Thank you for letting me use your kitchen." "Amore, I'll see you soon." " Pleasure is mine." " Thank you, guys." "Jimmy, I will cook a burger for you one day in the future, and you will go on your knee and beg for forgiveness, because you sent me home today." "The last class of the maestro." "I'll miss you, Mike." "I'm gonna miss you too, fab." " Ah, you're so impressive." " I love you, brother." " Can I do it one last time?" " Yeah, one more time." "Bravo." "Wear it." "All right." " I love you, guys." " Love you, Fabio." "People should look at me for consistency and perseverance." "If I made it in this country in the way that I'm trying to do it, the road is there, guys." "I mean, you should just go for it, you know." "You really are the only shadow standing in your own sunshine." "Next on Top Chef All-Stars..." "Sesame street." "Aah!" "Cookie, cookie, cookie." "In my house, elmo is like Elvis." " Go, go, go!" " All right, all right." "No potato chips in the cookies!" " This is so exciting." " This me kind of place." "I can't even fathom how hard this is gonna be." "Go, go, go!" "This will probably be the hardest challenge to date." "I can't do that." "I can't do that." "Everybody else is cooking, and I'm still shopping." "Where are the tablecloths?" "I think he's going for that late-night, comfort, stoner food." "You ever given this guy a urine test?" "For more about the recipes"