"That was a free-for-all." "Casey had a lot of balls for buying chicken feet." "I mean, that was pretty impressive." "I was fully expecting to hear my name." "Jamie, you're here because you gave us a scallop dish that had very little flavor." "Casey, your chicken feet weren't cooked enough, and therefore inedible." "Casey..." "Please pack your knives and go." "Sucks for her." "I feel bad." "But at the same time, it's like, whatever." "She just attacked the challenge like," ""I'm not gonna just, like, put up a dumpling." Right." "I think everybody expected Jamie to go home." "Honestly, her attitude drives me nuts." "Not all of us failed the Challenge." "Don't bust my balls about not putting food out." "Dale can sit there and be like," ""I only made eight good portions for the last dim sum challenge,"" "and then win." "I mean, like, really?" "I could have made four different dishes and made ten portions of each dish." "But that wasn't the challenge." "Marcel's still hating on me." ""You only cooked eight plates for the judges, and that's all you Did."" "I'm like, "didn't count my plates."" "Good night, Tiff." "Good night, Carla." "Good night, guys." "Here's the deal." "I don't know how you guys do it in your seasons, but I embrace the challenges, and I make food for the people." "Marcel's salty 'cause he thinks his chicken wings won." "You're wasting a lot of energy on something that you can't change." "You made 20 dishes, and whatever." "We were supposed to make 150, so what the ?" "You won the Challenge." "Whatever." "You told me to -- You tell me to plate five portions." "You know what, that's why they call it a Game." "And that's why they call it a Challenge." "And if you want to cry about it, you want to be a little Bitch, then get the Out the game." "Marcel's lucky I took anger management training." "The old me would have been like," ""I'm gonna beat your Ass if you don't shut the Up right now."" " Put it on a plate." " Put it on the Plate." "I definitely have noticed throughout the weeks that we've been here that Marcel is kind of an ass." "12 Chefs remain to fight it out for $1/2 million 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 8x06 ♪ We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat Original Air Date on January 12, 2011" "What are we doing?" "Oh, hell no." "It's dark outside." "Morning." "Good morning." "What the hell is going on here?" "It's too late for a midnight snack, too early for breakfast." "What I'm gonna do today?" "We walk into the kitchen and I'm completely confused." "I look around." "Where's Padma?" "Nobody got Padma up at this time of the morning?" "Mm." "Uh-oh." "We got a map." "All right, Chefs..." ""Meet us in Montauk!"" "I think it's pretty clear between the sign and the note we are actually going fishing." "To have the opportunity to just get out of the Top Chef kitchen and go to the water and fish, if that's really what's coming," "I'm pretty excited." "We're going to Montauk." "Long Island!" "Once we find the note that says we're heading to Montauk, we jump in our Toyota Siennas and head out." "We arrive in Montauk at the lighthouse." "It's so pretty here." "And it is just this beautiful sight." "Welcome to beautiful Montauk Point, the most popular fishing spot in the state of New York." "We're going fishing." " Yay!" " Yeah." "Chefs, I come here all the time to fish." "You'll find things like bluefish, sea bass, striped bass, and some porgy." "There will be no quickfire today." "Your elimination challenge is simple." "You'll have five hours to catch as many fish as you can and cook it on the beach for 200 people." "You'll be working in four teams of three." "Team challenges are not my favorite thing." "Especially after the dim sum team challenge, which was just a disaster." "So, Chefs, to determine teams, pull out of this net." " Team three." " Team three." " Two." " One." " Two." " Three." "On my team is Jamie and Tiffani F." "Last time I was on a team with the two of them, we basically were the most horrific team ever." "It's kind of hard not to be like "ugh."" " Team one." " Team two." " Four." " Team four." "Four." "I'm glad Marcel is not on my team." "It's hard to work with that guy." "He can kiss my ass." "Chefs, the other thing you need to know-- this is a double elimination." "Oh." "Two of you will be going home." "This is going to be a double elimination." "I don't care if I have to, like, jump in the ocean and wrestle it onto the Deck." "I'm gonna catch fish." "Teams one and three, you'll go out on the Sea Wife IV." "Teams two and four, you'll go out on Susie E. II." "Chefs, good luck." "And have fun." "Catch a big one." "Just get in on here?" " Yeah." "Hey, guys." " What's going on, man?" "I hate the water." "I watched Jaws too many times, and it really got into my head." "A shark's scent is up to an average of two miles." "I mean, even just the smallest droplet of blood attracts the sharks." "That's a beautiful bay." "It's amaz-- oh, God, we got a leak." "I don't even go in the pools 'cause this whole shark thing has really affected my mind." "Hopefully, we can get two big stripers or-- we will." "My team is Fabio and Marcel." "And we're on the boat with team Angelo, Tiffany, and Mike." "This is good fishing grounds." "This time of year especially." "It's perfect fishing ground." "I'm a good fisherman." "My dad has been for a while in the national team in Italy, and he gave me his passion for fish." "Yeah." " That's a good sign." " Tons of fish there." "It's a good sign." "Fabio seems to know a lot about fishing." "It makes us a stronger team in my opinion." " Get it, girl." " It's time to fish, yo." "Here fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy." "It's my team, Antonia, Jamie, and I, and then Dale, Carla, and Tre are also on our boat." "Short, quick, snapping motions like that." "See what I'm doing?" "You don't have the rod like this." "Not off to the side." "You'll see other boats doing it different." "Do not pay attention." "Do it the way we do it, okay?" "I like going fishing 'cause for me it reminds me of going out with my father." "He's an angler." "He's fished for his whole life." "I'm gonna kill it on this challenge, make my dad proud." "I've been on a fish boat several times, but I--but I haven't, like, held the rod." "I want to catch a fish that's, like, half my size." " It's, like, bigger than you." " Like that." "Totally." "That would be awesome." "Whoa." "Dale's got something." "I dropped the pole down, I jigged, like, three times, and, vroo, a fish hits." "Come on, baby." "Bring it in, baby." "Bring it on in." "Unbelievable." "It was almost like it was planned." "Five minutes into it," "I have a fish." "Holy ." "I channeled my father with that one." "I give that up to my old man right there." "First striper, baby." "The other team, I could see it in their face, there was a little worry." ""Hey, they've already gotten something and we haven't gotten anything yet."" "Come on, fishy." "You want to switch out, buddy?" "I don't want you to get tired." "Oh, you see that?" "Right there." "I think I saw a jumper." "Oh, there's a jumper right there." "Keep it up." "Keep it up." "We just need to get that first one." "Then they'll smell it on you." "You know what I'm saying?" "It might not be easy, guys." "It's gonna be a long day." "Oh, my gosh." "I'm the first to catch a fish on my team and it's really exciting." "I start screaming like a fourth-grader." "Antonia!" "Antonia!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Okay, I see it." "That's another bluefish." "Yes." "Wow." "Yeah, Tre." "Yeah." "It's gonna be a while." "Man, they were jumping a second ago." "Come on, Fabio." "No fish for Fabi today." "What's going on here?" "Reality is that we're gonna need 4 to 6, 7 big fish to feed 100 people." "At this ratio, we have to be here till midnight." "It's not looking too good in there, guys." "We can't catch anything, so I don't know if, like, are we feeding them the wrong thing?" "Spirits are bad." "Oh, lord, it's gonna be a while." "No, not yet." "I'm good." "Carla!" "Whoo!" "How many you got?" " How many?" " We've got five." "No." "Five stripers." "And a bluefish." "Man." "Man, they're racking 'em in over there." "The other boat hasn't caught any fish?" " Zero so far." " Wow." "We've been out here for, like, three hours already." "I got nothing but a nibble." "See, they're doing the thing that he said don't look at other boats." "Look at 'em." "You're not rowing a boat, Mike." "You're catching fish." "Fabio, Blais, and I, we're off to a very shaky start." "And knowing that two people are gonna go home doesn't feel that good if you don't catch fresh fish in this challenge, you might as well pack your knives and go home now." "Oh, seriously." "There's, like, so much sand." "I'm just like, "give me a break."" "Hell, it's hot." "Thank God this cucumber's dripping all over me." "It's kind of like having a little baby in the background." "I hope you catch an Italian fish, Fabio." "Sardine?" "Our elimination challenge is catching our own fish and then having to cook our own catch." "They have five stripers?" " And a blue." " One team?" "The other team's boat is catching all sorts of fish." "They're having a good time, man." "Everyone's giving each other high-fives." "We signed up for the wrong cruise ship." "We're in trouble." "Push it down instead of up." "Push it-- just slam it down." "Here fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy." "All right, I think I got one." "I think I got one." " Here we go." " Oh, yeah!" "Fabio gets a bite." "And about 20 seconds later, I get a bite on my line too." "Yeah, Fabio." "I hope he didn't bite both lines." "Are you serious?" "Whoa!" "There it is." "I'll get him." " Yeah!" " Whoo!" "Finally, people started catching a bunch of fish." "It's a big one!" "Yeah!" "Oh, we got a winner." "Yeah!" "Come on!" " There you go, brother!" " Whoo!" "Yeah!" "Now pick it up." "Watch the hook." " Oh!" " Oh!" "With a striped bass, you can typically get anywhere from 10 to 25 portions out of each fish." "I've already caught two, and I think we're starting to pick up some momentum." "Thank you." "Oh, this is a big one." "You're gonna go up, then down." "Come on, tiff." "How's your husband gonna feel about this?" "He'll be all right." "If we win some money, he'll be real happy." "Mikey can be disrespectful." "He is such a dog." "I'm like, "Mikey, stop."" "Holy ." "Jesus." "Mine is a fighter like his mama!" "It's gonna be a big fish, dude." "I'm losing a little bit of grip right here." "We kind of have a weird technique that I don't know if I'm proud of, but, like, I'm kind of sitting in Marcel's lap..." "Oh, Me." "Holding his rod." "That's bad." "Ooh, we got a big one." "I'm tired." "I throw the line out into the water, and I feel the line shoot off in another direction." "You got it, baby." "Breathe." "There you go." "Dale looks like he's going into labor-- head down, red-faced, like the baby is crowning." "Look at the sweat dripping off his chin." "There he is." "Dude, Dale!" "Yeah!" "That ginormous striped bass that Dale pulled out of the water was like a dragon." "Huge." "Dude!" "That is great big fish." "Whoo hoo hoo!" "This fish is-- it's not as big as Marcel." "It's bigger." "It kind of has the same anatomy-- a really big head and then a little body, like a little bobble-head doll." "Buttery corn puree." "You want to do a corn puree underneath?" "Yeah." "On our way back to shore, we started doing some menu planning." "One strong dish with multiple components." "I'm letting Marcel think that he's come up with the entire dish." "That's the key to managing Marcel." "If we do just one dish, guys, and something go wrong then?" "I know." "Simplicity is the sign of perfection, man." "It's a double- elimination challenge." "Three of us making one dish." "I think it's a good idea, because if we're on the bottom, it will be hard for the judges to decide who to send home among us." "This is psychological warfare." "Thanks, Captain." "Thank you." "People who fish, like, have this thing about fishing, how great the experience is, but I never understood it until today." "Absolutely one of the best days I've ever had." "I will never forget this moment." "Hopefully, it makes my dad proud." "We arrive at the farmers market." "We have 30 minutes, $150." "Get what you think is nice." "How about that?" "The ingredients here are bangin'." "If we really just pay attention, the market is dictating the dish in itself." "Are you sure-- I tasted 'em." " Spicy, please." " Taste a bite of that." "Not a lot." " Ahem." " I think it's plenty-- why'd you give that to me?" "'Cause you didn't trust me." "You're complaining that you wanted spice-- oh!" "I got you, Richie." "I got your back, brother." "Maestro, why you so good to me?" "'Cause I like you." "Blais and Fabio cannot be separated." "They are newfound love." " The lady peas?" " Right there, fresh beans." "They're having their own little bromance." "They are like The Odd Couple." "It's like the Professor and the strange Italian immigrant." "Maestro, let's go in the shade." "What'd you get?" "I haven't gotten anything yet." "Bluefish is considered kind of a trashy fish." "It's oily, and I caught two of those." "You want to get some more lettuce?" "Yeah, I'll get it." "So at the market, I'm looking for something that balances everything." "However, there's going to be a double elimination, and I don't want to go home because of the bluefish." "That lettuce looks great." "My mouth's on fire." ", those peppers are hot." "This challenge is very back-to-basics." "It's using what's available around you." "That's the way that I like to cook, so I'm excited about it." "We should take something off." "We don't need those." "There's this sense of where is Jamie in this competition?" "She is probably the weak member of the team." "I'm just making sure that I keep some distance from her." "All righty." "Shorty, you all right over there?" "I would have grabbed some nori for Marcel." "Be like, "here you go!"" "My girlfriend put a letter in my bag." "Before I left home, my wife said," ""you have my permission to not miss us while you're gone."" "I have one of the best women out there." "Oh, , man." "My sous Chef in life and my best friend is my wife." "I love being here, I love competing," "I love cooking, but I miss my best friend." "♪ ♪" "Arriving at water taxi beach, it's gorgeous." "I always thought Manhattan was really cool, but actually being on the other side and looking into Manhattan is even cooler." "Tiffany, where's the thyme?" " Grocery bags." " No sand in the food, yeah?" "I already have sand in my shoes." "Oh, seriously, there's, like, so much sand." "Where are our towels?" "It's crazy to me." "Jamie'll complain, she'll be tired and want to go home, and I'm just like "give me a break."" "Hell, it's hot." "Feel like the sun is just right on me for some reason." "Jamie's gonna be her own demise, because she's..." "And all that." "Make sure those things are on over there." "My God, this cucumber's dripping all over me." "It's kind of like just having a little baby in the background." "Antonia, I used all that sugar, okay?" " You used all that?" " Mm-hmm." "Feel like the team aspect is a little less important, because people are always gonna be out for themselves, especially being a double elimination, so we're all taking responsibility for our own dishes." "Jamie, you're frying." "Yeah, it's supposed to be." " Listen..." " I just turned 'em down too." "If you don't want me to tell you, I won't." "Fish can be tricky, because you have to know where the tendons are, where the muscles are, where the flesh is." "The one thing about bluefish is that is has a dark blood line and it could be bitter and fishy, so I want to make sure that that isn't in my lettuce wrap." "Richard, you want some onions in there or no?" "Yeah, yeah." "There is a lot that needs to get done." "We have to allocate tasks, and Fabio being, you know, the baby kisser that he is, we decide to put him up in the front, so that way, he can work on plating and also all the prep work for the vegetables." "It's kind of like a "yes, Chef" sort of situation." " Richie, this size." " Yes." "Even a little smaller if you could." "That's nice." "That's nice." "Everybody here wants to be a rock star, but the reality is that there is no rock star without the backstage people." "And that's what I'm doing today." "I'm doing all the prep work." "That's the base for the success of our dish." "I'm gonna start cutting these green beans." " Fabio was gonna do that next." " Yes." "Stay on the plan." "Quite honestly, Marcel is the guy that wants to do just one dish." "Marcel, where are you at, Chef?" "Jamon stock is infusing." "Going on the succotash." "And it's one dish with, like, seven elements on it." "Okay, I'm almost done with the bean." "Your, uh, peppers are about to come to you in less than five minutes." "It might have been a mistake to listen to Marcel." "In retrospect, I probably should have said let's do two, so I'm very concerned." "Fabio, I need you to get those peppers." "Fabio, we need to push, dude." "Fabio's taking a little beating from his brother Blais." "Fabio, we need you on that puree." "I am." "I am right here." "Push, push, push." ", shut up." "That's beautiful." "I think it's tasty." "We're marinating them for sure?" "Today is a double elimination." "So I'm, like, super nervous." "Watch the grit." "I just got a piece of sand." "Sand or thyme?" "Sand." "Especially, like, because I work in a seafood restaurant, definitely don't want to screw up anything." "It would be very embarrassing." "It's the wind." "There's nothing you can do." " Hey, Chefs." " Chef, how are you?" "How many dishes are you doing?" "We're working on one dish." "Why only one dish?" "Well, we pretty much predominantly caught one fish." "You guys only caught one fish?" "No, one type of fish." "How are you cooking it?" "Pan roasted in some ghee and some thyme." "We're gonna do like a jamon froth." "Jamon froth." "So do you guys think you're at a disadvantage because if this one dish goes down, there's nothing to fall back on?" " But it won't." " It won't?" "If Tom asks you a question about something, he's loading ammunition." "Well, I guess you're hanging on one dish." "Good luck." "So not good." "Hey, Chef." "How many dishes are you doing?" " Two." " Two." "Okay." "Two dishes in between us all." "Cool." "How was the market?" "It was really good just, you know, going right from the boat right to the market." "That is my perfect idea of summer." "You fish, you catch fish, you go to the market, you get your vegetables, and you cook." " Yeah." " All right, cool." " All right, thanks, Chef." " See you later." " Thanks, Chef." " Hey, Chefs." " Hello, Chef." " Hey, Chef." "How's it going?" "Is that the big one?" "It was, I think, catch of a lifetime." "I'll remember that moment for the rest of my life." "Cool." "I'm doing a whole roasted striped bass and I'm toasting up flour tortillas." "Did you make the tortillas or..." "I did not make the tortillas." "Um..." "I was like, "come on, man, really?"" "Why would he say that?" "And then you start to second-guess yourself." "Should I have made the flour tortillas?" "Hey, Chefs." "So what are you making?" "Um, so we're making three different dishes using all three of the fish that we caught and I got porgy." "Great." "You kill it, you gotta cook it." "Gotta cook it." "I'm gonna smoke some of the bluefish and flake it into the garnish." "So have you worked with bluefish before?" " I have, yeah." " It deteriorates very quickly because it's so fatty." "It's actually a really lovely fish, but it's just, you know..." "Tom was giving me, like, a strange look about the fish, and it was a little disconcerting." " Thanks." " Thanks, Chef." "There's a perception that bluefish is, like, a terrible fish, and that's not at all the case." "It's fresh." "It's really a lovely fish." "And I think I've already in my head sort of committed to cooking bluefish." "So I'm fine." "I said I can smoke it and flake it in with my blue." "47 minutes." "So, Fabio, I need you to do that and then make the corn puree, okay?" "Yes, I'll do the corn puree." "Fabio, I need you to get those peppers and that corn done, right?" "Yes, I am." "Let me finish this pepper." "I have three minutes here, and then I'm on the corn." "Fabio, we need to push, dude." "I'm pushing, brother, as fast as I can." "Dude, shut up." "It won't get faster done if you keep asking." "I gotta go a little slower here on the pepper, 'cause I don't wa to smash them." "We don't have a lot of time." "I'll get it done." "Just let me do it." "We'll be fine." "Fabio, we need you on that puree." "I am." "I am right here." "Corn first, puree it, see how it is, add cream only when we need to." "I love him to death, but this guy's gonna get a heart attack if he doesn't peace himself out a little bit." "Today, it looks like" "Fabio's taking a little beating from his, uh, his brother Blais." "Can you strain that-- that sauce?" "I hear Blais talking in Fabio's ear all day long." "Push, push, push, push, huh?" "Bay leaf?" "Everything's on the spice shelf." "Okay, sorry, Chef." "You remind me of somebody I fired once." "Chef!" "Sorry." "We've got eight minutes, everybody." "Eight minutes." " We're in trouble." " Huh?" "We're in trouble." "We have to go." "At the end of the time, you know, I go into over-worried mode as always." "We gotta set up our station up here." "We're in trouble, brother." "We're fine." "Oh, man." "The succotash is not really succotash to me." "Succotash is a little fresher." "And, you know, Marcel's got a heavy hand, and it's a little, like, overworked." "We're gonna need some cilantro chopped." "Give it to me." "I'll Chop it." " Wait, wait, hold on." " That's lovely." "One minute, guys!" "One minute!" "Give me the chive oil." "Diners are entering." "When the diners come in, they come in like a herd of cattle." "Mike, you have more fish coming?" " The Merlot." " Three Pinot grigios." "Welcome to water taxi beach." " Hi." " Hi, how are you?" "I'm so excited to be eating your food." "Thank you." " Hi." " How are you?" "Good." "How are you?" "So you guys catch the fish?" "Yeah, we did, actually." "You have a lot of fun, man?" "I'm sore." "I can't even move it." "I'm just doing a, uh, fresh fish taco." "It's so colorful." "Where's the fish from?" " Um, it's from Montauk." " Oh, it is?" "Yeah." "Of course, I caught the fish!" " You caught the fish?" " Yes!" "Girl, I was like this." "It's a strong fish." "It's so pretty here." "Yeah, I've been here for a bunch of parties." " You have?" " Yeah, it's awesome, right?" "It's really nice." "And it's so close to the city." "How's it going?" "Can we get a couple of cocktails?" "Thank you." "Okay." "I'm interested to go taste the fish and see what they caught." "Yeah." "Help yourself, guys." "You enjoy your night, okay?" " Hi." " Hello." " How are you?" " Very good." "This is Kerry Heffernan." "He's the Chef at South Gate Restaurant." "He's gonna be our guest judge for this challenge." "Also, a fishing buddy of mine and a Chef that happens to know more about fish than pretty much any Chef I know." " Pleasure to meet you, Chef." " Good to see you." "We've got some, uh, sea bass and succotash for you here." "Little corn puree, little cherry tomato confit, a little jamon froth." "Me and Marcel sort of had the same idea at the same time, which, um, is always a good thing when you have three different minds coming together." " Good to see you." " Thanks, guys." " Hi." " How are you?" "Is this the fish we've been hearing about?" "This is one of the fish." "Fish of a lifetime." " It really was." " Yeah." "I'm making a, uh, fish taco." "With that, I'm serving a corn and avocado relish, and a little bit of radish and cabbage." "This is a tribute to the New York bagel." "The smoked bluefish is a hot smoke, and then pickled watermelon rind, fresh, um, cucumbers and radishes, and then I have a little bit of toasted pumpernickel bagels." "Here's my version of a gazpacho salad." "Bread that's grilled on the grill, cucumbers from the fresh market, tomatoes." "I added in a little bit of avocado just to make it even a little bit more lighter." " Thanks to all of you." " Bye." "Have fun tonight." "Hey, guys, mind if we join you?" "Now, this team only made one dish." "The beans in Marcel, Richard, and Fabio's dish just a tiny bit overcooked, like, just a little bit mushy." "I just don't know if the foam needs to be there." "Yeah, I think, uh, foam on the beach," "I'm not sure if that's a bad cocktail." "I like the corn puree a lot." "It's really good." "I like the succotash, but it's just, like, overbears the fish, so I really can't, I don't know." "Is there no nitrogen involved in this meal?" "There is no nitrogen involved..." "Yet." "Dale's taco." "I like how he put the fish on top to sort of highlight the fish, and the texture's really wonderful." "Dale's fish tacos were really good, because he had that big roasted fish." "For me, it was kind of like channeling, uh, my beach bum style." "Carla's fish is good." "That smoke is really nice." "It's nicely accented by a little dill, at that bit of pumpernickel, that ode to New York." "Carla's lettuce wrap was awesome." "Very refreshing, very light." "We were out near the lighthouse." "It was so gorgeous, right?" "Tre took a big chance in sauteing in an environment like this." "Fish was well cooked." "It's good." "It's, like, balanced." "It's kind of a race against the fish." "So I start searing fish, and I notice the skin keeps sticking to the bottom of the pan." "Before the judges arrive, I want to make sure that their fish is cooked really nicely." " Hi." " Hi, Padma." " Hello." " It's so nerve-racking." "Smells like a fish fry over here." "I made a cucumber and watermelon salad, and then I have a little cucumber water." "I caught some bluefish, so, um, I've smoked some of it and flaked it into a very simple salad." "To me, this is the time of year to sort of let nature do its thing." "So I did porgy." "I'm not scared of it." "As far as cleaning the porgy, it's kind of hard." "A lot of bones, huh?" "Yes." "The yield on it is harder because of that, so I did a po boy." "A little bit of brioche on the bottom." "So it's an open-faced po boy." "I did an old bay Mayo." "Enjoy." "Thank you." " Hi." " How are you?" "I'm good." "As a collective effort, we did pickled bluefish with a little bit of shallots and red chilies." "And the other one is a little bass." "It's a beautiful wild striped bass, and a beautiful spiced Syrian aleppo pepper, watermelon for texture, and a little spice." "Thanks, guys." "Thank you." "Cool." "Tiffany, Mike, and Angelo's pickled bluefish." " The fish was nice." " Yes." "And the smashed potato is nice." "The herbs are really nice, but the potatoes are a little bit heavy." "No, no, not yet." "I'm gonna go-- I'm thinking spring." "Spring in Paris." "There's something about" "Mike, Angelo, and Tiffany's striped bass dish that-- there's a lot of, like, competing flavors I find." "It's okay." "The fish is cooked well." "The watermelon's awesome." " It's very light." " Very refreshing." "Guys, we are looking for prep cooks if anybody's interested." "Jamie Lauren, let's see what you're made of." "She certainly didn't season the fish." "The cucumber water on its own is delicious." "Very nice, but it's kind of redundant." "It's water with water." " It's a fish story." " Yeah, 90 inches." ""We wrestled it into the boat."" "Yes." "Let's try Antonia's po boy." "It took a lot of courage to use the porgy, which is considered not to be a noble fish." "I could have eaten a giant sandwich." "This po boy is so spicy, but it's actually, like, with the crispy, it works really well." "You didn't catch 'em in the river." "Did not catch him in the east river, don't worry." "I wanted a little bit of acidity in Tiffani's dish." "It was a little bit crude." "I wanted to like it more." "Lacks a little bit of elegance and finishing here." "I don't normally like bluefish." "Yeah, me, neither." "It's not a fish that I would ever pick out at the store." "I live in boon, but worked on nantucket for a couple of summers." "So this was our staff meal, honestly." " Hello." " Hi, guys." " How are you?" " I'm good." "I'm good." "How are you?" "How are you?" "We ate at your restaurant about a month ago." "Oh, good." "Tell us, um, what you guys ate tonight." "Everything." "I found Carla's so refreshing with the lettuce wrap and stuff, and the great dill taste and a wonderful sauce." "I actually loved everything I had." "I'm not a big fish eater." "Came to the wrong place, sir." "Angelo wants to meet you." "Let's go, boys!" "This guy, he's shy." "Look at him hiding down there." "Get the Out of here." " Hey." " Hi." "How was your meal?" "It was delicious." "The Chefs did a great job, they really did." "Perfect for this environment, fish on the beach." "And they had a good time out there." "It makes the food taste better." "That's it." "When you kill it, you have respect for it." "A lot of people came up here and said that our table was their favorite." "I mean, I heard that a lot." "I saw Jamie cooking her fish for the judges." "It was a Train wreck." "The skin fell off the fish." "Flipped it over, it broke in half." "See, what I think about their dish," "I think it was a lot of flavor for the bass." "If you're a team and you do one dish," "I think it's really hard to distinguish who did what on the one dish." "It's sort of annoying to me, 'cause that almost feels like a little bit of a cop-out." "You know, I have a least favorite." "I think getting rid of the second person, that's gonna be a difficult thing to do." "Let's get back to judges' table." "All right, I'm packin' my knives." "Let's go." " Mikey!" " Hey, I'm comin'!" "Do you feel that you could have helped your teammates?" "Why are you crying?" "Mike blows a lot of-- definitely a lot of gas continuously, so I think if Mike was a fish," "I think he would definitely be a blowfish." " Whoo!" "Whoo!" " Oh, my God!" "I think Tre would be one of those creatures that buries itself under the sand." "Sometimes you don't even notice Tre until, like, he's laughing." "Angelo would be a mermaid." "A siren of the sea." "♪ ♪" "I smell like smoked fish." "Yeah, I smell like smoke, too." "Wow, two people are going home today." "I was thinking about what possibly could have been wrong with the dish, overanalyzing." "Gonna give yourself an ulcer." "I gonna always take the pessimistic point of view." "I'm right there with you." "Good evening." "We'd like to see Dale," "Carla, Tre, Tiffany, Mike, and Angelo." "I don't know, when they call somebody first, it doesn't mean they're on the top." "You know what I mean?" "I think we're at the bottom." "I hope I'm wrong." "♪ ♪" "Chefs, your teams had our favorite dishes of the night." "Yes." "It was wonderful to taste all of your food." "The winner of this challenge will win a trip to Amsterdam." "Oh, my gosh." "Mike, let's start with your team." "Angelo made the escabeche liquid and the spice rub for it, so I rubbed 'em and cooked 'em." "Tiffany and Angelo cooked bass." "You cooked that fish perfectly." "I was very impressed by the escabeche." "Really enjoyed it." "Thank you." "Dale, the diners we ate dinner with tonight went crazy for your taco." "You could taste the lemon, you could taste that sofrito." "This is the kind of food we want to eat in this environment." " Thank you." " Carla?" "My inspiration with the bluefish was to do something representative of New York." "It took us in a totally different direction." "Didn't expect it on the beach, and it made total sense." "If you said, "make smoked fish and bagel,"" "and this is what you came up with?" "This is-- it's just brilliant." "Thank you." "Kerry, as our guest judge, please tell us who won this challenge." "The dish that impressed us the most was perfect in that beach environment." "The winner is... ♪ ♪" "Carla." "Congratulations." "It's me..." "Again!" "Congratulations, Carla." "You've won a six-night trip to Hilton Amsterdam in Holland, plus $5,000 for airfare furnished by Hilton hotels and resorts." "I can't even put into words how much it means to me to win these challenges." "I'm speechless." "Thank you, Chefs." "Please send back the other two teams." " Thank you." " Thank you so much." "I won!" "I won!" "I won!" "I'm going to Amsterdam." "Sorry if I'm not super-ecstatic right now, 'cause that means that we're on the bottom." "Sorry." "I'm sorry." "They can see you." " Good luck, guys." " Good luck, guys." " Good luck, guys." " Thank you." "I should have contained my excitement." " No." "No." " It works both ways." "Absolutely not." "You're here to win." "♪ ♪" "Chefs, your teams were our least favorites." "Richard, Marcel, and Fabio." "Our dish, uh, actually came about very organically." "We caught five stripers in a row, so we decided to just go with the striped bass." "Why did you decide to do one dish together?" "The previous challenge led up to this a bit." "I think we were told that we didn't really operate as a team in the first challenge, and figured that we could do one dish, you know, well, instead of three dishes okay." "You really hung your hat one one thing." "Richard and Marcel, I know you guys said you came up with the idea for succotash at the same time." "Who made the succotash?" "I did 95% of the work as far as knife." "I blanched all the veg, he cut all the veg, he finished it." " Air?" " I made the air." "I filleted and cooked the fish." "It was a team challenge for us." "We were pushing each other." "I mean, he asked me about the corn 30 time in 10 minutes." "Was there a trust issue there?" "There needed to be restraint with it." "I think the Concord grape, for example, it became overkill." "Going for that restaurant-quality thing on the beach hampered your ability to execute." "It became very heavy." "And muddled, yeah." "And the flavors got all kind of muddled up." "It was also a textural problem, which was compounded by the vessel you gave it to us in." "You were given a plastic dish to serve this in, and you didn't think to change it and think, how can I do this differently?" "Guess we thought that it was gonna work, and it didn't." "All right, let's talk to the ladies." "Antonia." "You know, I know the term "fish fry"" "had been thrown around, and I was, like, fried porgy to me is delicious." "Had you been on a team that didn't have two weaker dishes, you probably would be going to Amsterdam right now, because it was my favorite dish of the evening." "There was heat." "The old bay gave it great flavor." "It was perfect." "Thank you." "I appreciate it." " Jamie?" " I got to the market," "I saw these beautiful cucumbers and these gorgeous watermelons, and I wanted to do something really light and just showcase that piece of bass, which is a really light white fish." "What did you do with the cucumbers?" "I took the sliced cucumbers, put it in a blender with some water." "You don't think there's enough water in the cucumber to make the water without adding water?" "I mean, I wanted to have a really, like, sort of brothy look to it." "Everything tastes bland after tasting the fish." "It sort of just all seemed washed out." "There was juiciness, but there wasn't flavor, and that's what we really needed." "Tiffani?" "It's very classic to smoke bluefish, obviously, like, it holds up to a good amount of smoke, and I wanted to just lightly roast the bluefish as well, just get a really nice, crispy skin." "The skin on bluefish is interesting, but you also have something else to deal with there, which is kind of the bloodline." "There may be a little bit too much of that." "You know, Ker, I think you're being kind to Tiffani and her dish." "The bloodline is where this dish went wrong." "Whenever that's left on, it is fishy and strong." "It was a really assertive amount of fish, and I found everything sort of out of proportion." "What I want to know is what you thought of Tiffani and Jamie's dishes." "Did you have a chance to taste them?" "I did, not in their entireties." "The problem, I think is that it was all separate." "Do you feel like if you had tasted them as a whole that it would have made a difference?" "Antonia, why are you crying?" "Do you feel at all that you could have helped your teammates?" "I just-- I don't want to see anybody go home." "Neither do we, but, unfortunately, two of you will be going home." "So we'll call you back." "Thank you." "I mean, this could be, honestly," "Marcel or Blais could go home from this, because it was their idea." "We're back." "I think it is a tough decision." "They're not sitting there like," ""oh, well, that sucks."" "They weren't unanimous about anything." "Tiffani, Antonia, and Jamie." "Tiffani's dish, for me, the big problem was the way that she cleaned the bluefish." "She wanted to leave the skin on." "The problem with that is you leave the bloodline in, and the bloodline on that fish is just too strong." "It was heavy-handed all around." "It didn't show any refinement or finesse." "Just became this kind of muddled mess." "Jamie's dish, overall, I thought was really bland." "The issue was the opposite of Tiffani." "I think parts of that dish were too refined, too light for a roasted piece of fish." "Jamie got stuck in her head about doing this broth, and it watered down the dish, it washed out the dish." "You know, with Richard, Marcel, and Fabio, they needed somebody on their team to say," ""there's too much stuff on one plate."" "It sounds like Fabio didn't seem to have a whole lot that he was working on or doing." "Fabio said that he did 95% of the knife cuts." "If you're doing all those knife cuts, you're probably not contributing to as much of the dish." "I don't know." "Marcel and Richard were really the two who conceptualized that dish." "Shouldn't they be to blame for the fact that it had way too many components?" "Right." "Richard, he cooked the fish." "He also made the gastrique, which was one of my least favorite components on the dish." "And it may have detracted from it as a whole." "Marcel--when you think about it, it's like Marcel just can't help himself." "He has to do a foam." "He gets in his own way that way." "Well, I think we have our answer." " Yes." " Absolutely." "Okay, let's get them out here." "♪ ♪" "Chefs, it's a team challenge." "You were asked to catch and cook all that the sea had to offer." "Tiffani, Antonia, and Jamie, you worked together as a team." "Antonia, you put together a great dish, but your other teammates let you down." "Perhaps, if you give them a little critical feedback, you wouldn't be in this position." "Tiffani, your dish was heavy-handed and very fishy." "Jamie, the dish was just bland." "It was very watery." "Just never really came together." "Fabio, Richard, Marcel, just too many elements on the dish." "Just didn't measure up to some of the other dishes." "Fabio, I just didn't really see you in this dish at all." "I don't know what part you played, but you didn't seem to have left your mark." "Richard, you made that Concord gastrique and we just didn't care for it." "It didn't have a place in this dish." "Marcel, you conceived of the dish, and there was just too much going on." "Not quite sure that we needed the foam." "Just overly complicated and not necessary." "Unfortunately, for two of you, you'll be going home." "♪ ♪" "Tiffani..." "Jamie..." "Please pack your knives and go." "Okay." "Thank you." "From the beginning of this," "I came in just wanting to sort of have a different experience and really enjoy it, and I did." "I'm very aware of the perception of who I was in season one, but I've become a different person." "I know that I feel good about the dish, and if they didn't like it, they didn't like it, and that's fine." "Aw." "The feeling of just being very clear on who I am as a Chef and a cook and a person far outweighs whatever pride I felt about just going to the finale in the first season." "Bye, guys." "I'm bummed that there was two challenges that I didn't cook on." "I'm bummed that they didn't like the one dish that I was proud of." "But this has been an amazing opportunity." "I wouldn't change it for the world." "What's next for me is going home to the most amazing girlfriend." "Kelly's everything to me. next, on Top Chef All-Stars..." "Restaurant wars!" "♪ Duh duh duh ♪ let the games begin." "The honey is cold, the lamb is cold, everything is." "Just keep on cooking, all right?" "Watch the way you Talk to me." "We will be right back with you with the drink order." "Dana Cowan is here tonight." "Dana, you're about to have a date with me tonight." "This is not organized at all." "We don't know why they bring it over there." "Get the Away from me right now." "Don't talk like that to my server." "If this was my restaurant," "I would just send both of them home right there and then." "It's not appealing to eat." "It was like a perfect storm of Awfulness." "For more about the recipes seen tonight,"