"Tiffany, it's a war here." "She's tough." "Tiffany, your super Wright cold and it was just too sweet." " Tiffany, please pack your knives and go." "Bye, y'all." " I was out-cooked." " She's a great cook." "She's a great chef." "She's a great person." "You never can underestimate Tiffany." "She should be proud of what she did, but the three strongest competitors are competing right now." "Top three, here we come." " Congratulations." " Thank you." "It's back to back, you know." "I'm getting hot now." " The chef that was definitely the most creative" " is Michael." " Thank you." " I'm not worried that Mike's on a streak." "Good for him." "He's won two challenges in both seasons of Top Chef." "I've won eight." " I can't believe there's only three of us." "It's weird." " There's no way to really be like, "oh, well, that person's obviously going home."" " It's the three of us left." "And it's kind of like the boys' club." "They're just expecting to dominate." "But that's not gonna happen." " Let's get out of here." " Three all-star chefs remain to fight it out." "Only one will win 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." " Good morning, chefs." " Morning." " I'm sure you recognize the man next to me, award-winning chef and celebrated restaurateur" "Mr. Wolfgang puck." " Good morning, chefs." " Good morning." " He's an icon." "He's a legend." "He was the only chef I knew who he was when I was a kid." "I'd never heard of any other chef, but I knew of Wolfgang puck." " You guys ready for one more quickfire?" " One more." " Today will be different than anything you've experienced in the past." "We've chosen seven classic quick-fires from the past eight seasons, but we're gonna let you give the challenge to your competitor." " Wow." " Chefs, as you know, sometimes the simplest challenges are the toughest one." " You know, one of them on the table is tacos." "Which I won in my season." "So I wouldn't mind getting that one." " Mike, you won the last elimination challenge, so you'll get to pick one of your competitors and assign a quickfire challenge to them." " I'm gonna pick my cousin antonia." "It's really, really tough cooking canned goods, and I don't care whether we're cousins or not." "I'm gonna give her something tough." "I'm gonna give her canned foods to work with today." " Of course he picks the hardest thing on the table." "It's like, Mikey, you're just not gonna make anything easy." " So, antonia, that means you're assigning a challenge to Richard." " Hot dogs." " Well, the hot dog is pretty close," "I'm sure, to Wolfgang Puck's heart, being that he's Austrian, so I hope I can pull it off." " Now, Richard, you'll assign for Mike." " I'll give Mike..." "I want this to be a challenge to him." "I'm just remembering from the fish fry challenge where Mikey was saying, "I just need six or seven saute pans."" "So one pot." " Got it." " For the life of me, I don't understand why he gave him a pot because giving him, like, one pot wonder gives him access to everything." "Blais... not the sharpest one in the drawer." " Your time starts now." " It's always those simple challenges that just throw us for a loop." "Starting with canned food is not starting with the best ingredients." "I immediately grab every kind of, like, flavor that'll incorporate into, like, just a beautiful curry coconut soup." " Anyone got peanuts?" " I have peanuts on my station." " The most difficult thing about the one pot challenge is, like, it's hard to do a composed dish." "Ah, got it." "It's not like you can sear a piece of fish, pull it out, cook your sauce, so I decided to do a spin on pork and beans using the pressure cooker as my one pot." "Now to braise pork usually takes about three hours." "I'm gonna try to cook it in a pressure cooker in 45 minutes." "All right, let's cross our fingers." " I would love to make a fresh hot dog, but now I have to use the store-bought hot dogs." "I'm gonna make my own bread." "It's ambitious, because we don't have a lot of time." "And then I want to make this curry ketchup sauce because we all associate ketchup with hot dogs." "But to make it different, I'm going to get some hot dogs, chop 'em up, saute 'em in a pan with some fennel and celery seed, so I get a nice, sort of spicy flavor" "to this ketchup sauce." " I'm right behind you." " 34 minutes." " Chefs, can I get your attention?" " Uh-oh." " Anytime Padma walks into the kitchen before time's up, you know that something is wrong." " If she tells me to start cooking your dish..." " Shh." " We're gonna let each of you assign a classic Top Chef twist to one of your competitors." "You can choose from three of our favorites." "The first..." "Cooking with one hand." " I'm thinking, oh, my God." "I remember this twist." "Something probably I don't want to tackle." " The second is finishing your dish without any knives or hand tools." " The only thing that is going through my head is I cannot have utensils taken away from me." "I need to open these cans." " And the third..." " Uh-oh." " Uh-oh." " Uh-oh." " What's up?" " Hey." " The double apron twist from season seven." " Jesus Christ." "Twist this off." " We're gonna pick in reverse order now." "So that means, Richard, you assign a twist to Mike." "No utensils or hand tools." " God bless you." " We already did no utensils earlier in the season." "And now I'm doing it all over again." "It's nuts." " Antonia, that means you're choosing for Richard." " Richard, you have to cook with one hand." "And I'll take Carla." " You guys have 30 minutes." "Richard." " These are three of the toughest twists that can be thrown at us." "They all suck pretty bad." " All right, so I can only use canned ingredients and dried ingredients." " Okay." " I'm doing a coconut curry soup." " Okay." " I think blais thought that he stuck it to me a little bit." " You know, I'm just gonna crack open my citruses on the corner of the counter so I can squeeze the juice in, and my cabbage salad is already cut." "And my pork is cooking with the sauce." "So I'm kind of just standing there." " You know, I went with too sweet, girl." " Carla and I are literally tied to each other." "So it's cutting." " Nice." " God, that's not a bad brunoise if I do say so myself." "It's opening cans." " Okay, okay, let's not work like that." "Go right here." " We're like conjoined twins at this point." "Mike's laughing, and it's kind of annoying to hear." "He's just, like, trying to get me riled up 'cause he thinks I'm competition." "Go away, Mike." " You know, with no utensils and, you know, a one pot meal," "Mike's just kind of waiting for the pressure cooker to finish cooking." "I feel like I maybe shouldn't have selected Mike to use no hand tools." "That was a mistake on my end." " Mike, you're real busy over there." " What do you want me to do?" "My braise is cooking." "What do you want from me?" "Are you mad at me?" "Just gotta hope my pork's cooked." " So I have to cook with one hand." "It's not easy to slice lime." "This is the toughest quickfire challenge on Top Chef ever." " Do you think it's good?" "Carla's another palate, so it's kind of nice to have somebody tasting it from a fresh perspective." " I think it just tastes like raw curry." " Well, I burned the curry good." "She's very calm." "If you're gonna have a team member, she's the best one to have." "I want to maybe powder it and sprinkle it." " Exactly." " With the peanuts." " Uh-huh." "Uh-huh." "And maybe with some limes." "Add some acid." " I can't use them." " Oh, 'cause it's fresh." "I check my meat, I open it up, it's not really where I want it." "I put it back on the pressure cooker, try to cook it for a little bit more at a high temperature." "I'm just gonna gamble with it." "So I'm a little nervous about that at this point." " Sorry, dude." "Come on." "You can do it, though." "You got a pressure cooker, man." " "You can do it."" " You know, I'm not 100% thrilled with my dish." "I think the flavors are a little molded together." "And this is probably the last quickfire challenge of my Top Chef career." "So I want to win this thing." " It's tough to feel confident about it." "I mean, the pork's a little tough." "So I'm a little worried about what they're gonna think." " Time's up." "Hands up." " So I did a curry soup with a little bit of canned shrimp, and ouille sausage, and a little bit of curry spice." " Very strong flavors, huh?" " Really strong." " Yeah, but good balance." " Thank you." " So, Richard, what did you make for us?" " Currywurst." "But I made my own bread and then made a hot dog stock with a little ketchup, mayonnaise, lots of spices." " I think I could feed that to my kids at home." " Oh." " They would love that." " That's good, I hope." " They love sausage and ketchup." " His dish was plain and simple." "Which I'm surprised." "So I feel like I'm gonna win this challenge." "So I tried to make a twist on pork and beans." "I braised the pork shoulder, chili paste, ginger, cinnamon." " With the salad..." "I like the balance." " Yeah." " Thank you." " Thank you, Mike." " Mikey gave it to me twice today." " Me and blais got the tough ones." " Wolfgang, let's tell them how they did." " Well, let's start with Richard." "To me, it was a little bit too ketchupy, maybe." "But I think, all in all, it was a very nice sandwich, if you want to call it that way." "Antonia, I thought your soup was delicious." "A little bit too concentrated." "And, Mike, I thought the balance was pretty good." "The pork could have been a little bit more cooked." "But I think, all in all, you all did a really nice job." " So, Wolfgang, please tell us the winner." " For me, the winning dish was eye-appealing, and I think it had great flavor." "The winner is..." "Michael." " Oh, wow." "Thank you." "Thank you, chef." " Congratulations, Mike." "That means you get $5,000, furnished by Terlato wine." " Awesome." "Thank you." "I'm stoked at this point." "My mentality was come and win as much as I can." "And I'm doing everything that I planned on doing so far." " You got a pretty good roll going there." " I'm trying my hardest." " The kid's just on fire." "You know, that's two elimination wins, a quickfire win." "The pressure's on." "I got to cook great food tomorrow, and it's gonna hurt really bad if I don't win." " Chefs, we have some special guests waiting for us at the cloisters at the one and only ocean club." "Please meet us there." " Thank you." " Thank you." " We arrive at the cloisters, and Padma tells us there's gonna be some special guests waiting for us." "It could be aliens." "It could be rock stars." "We expect the unexpected, for sure." " I see Wolfgang puck, Michelle Bernstein, and morimoto." "Michelle Bernstein is one of the top women chefs in the country." "She's awesome." " Chef morimoto, he's an iron chef." "He's just really friggin' scary." "Like, Japanese warrior." " For these three great culinary icons, food is their life." "So your task is daunting." "Prepare and serve their last supper." " What we want to eat is a little bit different than the food that we want to cook." "Maybe morimoto wants a cheeseburger." "A chef saying this is what I want to eat for my last meal, it gives you a really good read on their soul." " Mike, as the winner of the quickfire, you get to choose which culinary icon's last meal you would like to prepare." " I'd like to cook for Michelle Bernstein." "On my season in Vegas." "Michelle was a judge she said I over-seasoned something." "So I want a second shot." "You also get to assign the other chefs' meals to your competitors." " Just to kind of mess with her a little bit," "I decide to give morimoto to antonia because it'd probably be pretty tough." "I'd like Richard to cook for chef Wolfgang puck." "And I'd like antonia to cook for chef morimoto." " Mike is definitely playing the game." "He's trying his hardest to knock me down." " Richard is known to be one of the best top chefs of all time." "And I want to compete against him in the finals." "'Cause I want to beat the best." "Be the best." " But of course..." " There's always a twist." " It's not that easy." "There'll be one final surprise in this envelope." "Which we'll open later." " For the third time ever in Top Chef history, only two of us are gonna get to that last round, so the gravity of this cannot be underestimated or downplayed." " I'll see you tomorrow night at balmoral club." " Chef..." "Let's an honor to cook for you." " Chef, it's a pleasure to cook for you." " I gonna go back to my roots." "Apple strudel, a goulash, and some spaetzle with it." "My mother was a chef..." "A hotel chef too." " Okay, great." " That's how I started." "Goulash was always something really special for us." "And my father used to tell my mother, "put more butter on it, so it gets nice and crispy..." " All right." " She was making pastries at the hotel." "The strudel is really on of my memories." " I don't have a recipe for strudel dough." "We're not allowed to carry recipes." "So the strudel is scaring the pants off of me." " You know, we didn't have a lot of money, so actually picked the apples from our trees and made them." " It's a tough challenge because you're asked to cook for Wolfgang puck something that's dear to his heart." "And it's just amazing to kind of h hear him talk about his family and how he sort of grew up in a restaurant environment." "No wonder he's so good." " Apple strudel is always my favorite." "You know, because it really reminds me of my childhood." " Nice." " So what do we got today?" " I would choose fried chicken, biscuits, and gravy." " Okay." "Why is this dish, like, important to you?" " It's the antithesis of how I grew up." "I'm Latin and Jewish." "We didn't eat fried chicken." "So when my father took me out to eat fried chicken for the first time," "I fell so in love with it when I was five years old that..." " Right." " I'll never forget the love." "I think you got it pretty easy." " You know, easy is sometimes hard, but..." " Well, easy is hard." "The simplest things are the hardest." " I'm not really worried about cooking fried chicken." "I feel like I could do a good job of it." "I'm worried about giving her my take on fried chicken, 'cause it's not gonna be what she's traditionally used to seeing." "Hopefully you like it." " Right." "Right." " So you better spend the time..." " To looking through each grain." " Yes, each grain." "Miso soup." " Miso soup." " Pickles." " Pickles." " And some sort of sashimi." " Okay." "Sometimes I think of morimoto as superhuman." "Right." "But when he starts telling me these stories about playing baseball, coming home for dinner, he's actually really sweet." "This was a dish that his mother made." "Yikes again for me." "Like, double gulp." "Thank you, chef." "I appreciate it." "I may never eat Japanese food ever again because it may scar me so deeply." " Good luck to you." " Thank you." "Bye-bye." " I'll see you later." " Good luck." " Thank you." " Mikey gave it to me twice today." " I did not give it to you twice today." " Let's take a vote on that." " What do you want me to do?" "I don't want to lose to you." "I'm not gonna give you an easy road." " I don't want an easy road." "I'm actually excited to have morimoto." "If I pull it off, that's a huge feat." " This should be a walk in the park for you." "You know, me and blais got the tough ones." "I mean, you think..." "You're so full of... then why didn't you pick morimoto?" " 'Cause I knew Michelle was gonna give me the biggest challenge." " Really?" " Really." " I'm gonna call" "On that one." "Who has the hardest dish?" "That would be me." "I'm sorry." "There's no comparison on the level of stress." "But, I mean, I'll still kick his butt." " You know, I've never made a biscuit in my life." " You will tomorrow." " No, I won't." " What are you gonna do?" " I'm gonna do a flaky empanada." "You know, I'm gonna take a risk tomorrow." "I'm putting it all out there." "We're not line cooks." "We're not sous chefs." "We want to be Top Chef." "You got to be creative." " Well, I'm doing the same thing." "I'm not going traditional by any route." "I'm gonna change some things up, add some flavors." "You know, if I blow it, I blow it." "You know, Mikey, he got a good gig with fried chicken and biscuits." "He doesn't have to reach and kind of understand a culture like me and antonia have to." " I think blais thought, coming back, antonia would be his toughest challenge." "And I think that I've changed his vision." "I'm not just crossing my fingers and saying," ""yeah, I need this." "I want it."" "I want it, and I'm gonna take it." " Yeah, I'm tired." "I'm going to bed." "In my finale, I was the first one eliminated." "It felt like when your first boyfriend breaks up with you." "You wake up in the middle of the night crying." "I don't want to feel that way ever again." "You know, I want..." "I want to do it." "I want to be there at the end." " I feel like throwing up." " Yeah, that makes three of us." "I'm really stressed out right now." " I don't think I've ever felt this stressed in the entire competition." " Our suite at the Atlantis is just full of anxiety." "I just actually have jags of just nervous laughter." " Wolfgang called." "He asked how the goulash is coming." " I don't know if Mike's strategically trying to get in my head." "It bothers me for sure." "But I'm very quick to remind Mike what the score total is, and I'm on the leader board." "If I tried, I definitely could throw up." " That's gross." " Ring molds, ring molds, ring molds." "I am cooking Michelle Bernstein's last supper." "What brings her back to childhood is fried chicken with biscuits and gravy." "She serves it every Wednesday at her restaurant." "I'm gonna take a risk, and I'm gonna kind of twist up" "Michelle's dish." "You know, I feel really confident about it." " There's so many difficulties to this dish." "It's like, is the fish sliced properly?" "Does the Miso soup taste right?" "Is the rice the way he likes it?" "I'm really worried about creating a memory." " It's a bit slippery over there." "I keep slipping on these gizzards." " Sorry." " No, that's all right." "For some reason, I've been dealt some difficult cards." "I have to cook goulash, spaetzle, and an apple strudel." "The strudel poses a challenge for me." "Never done it before." "It's something that's dear to his heart." "And he's a legend, so one little mistake, tiny, little mistake, could really ruin my chances." "It's definitely a lot of pressure." "Antonia, didn't you have trouble opening a pressure cooker recently?" " Yeah." " I am cooking" "Michelle Bernstein's last supper." "The winner of this challenge is gonna move on into the finale." "This is what I came here for." "I'm here to win." "I'm not here for second place." " Hey, chefs." " Hey, how you doing, chef?" " I'm good." "How's it going?" " I'm working on Michelle Bernstein's last supper." "She gave me fried chicken with biscuits and gravy." "I'm gonna sous vide it." " Have you done this before like this?" " Yes, I have." " Cool." "All right." " He's definitely questioning what I'm doing." "I know he is, but Michelle said to have fun with it." " Good luck." " Thank you, chef." " Now, Mike has won two challenges in a row, so he has a lot of momentum going into this challenge, and I... quite frankly, I think he picked the easiest dish." "Hey, Richard." " Chef, how are you?" " I'm good." "How's it going?" " You know, the goulash is sort of my style of food, so that kind of worked out for me." " Now, in your season, you made it to the finale." "Do you think that gives you an advantage at all?" " I don't know." "You know, I mean, Mike's on a roll right now, so I'm a little bit of the underdog." " Are you feeling that he kind of has the momentum going into...?" " Oh, absolutely, and that's fine with me." "As long as I win on the last day, that's okay." " To get to the finale, what does it mean getting there again?" " It means everything to me." "It'd be the biggest moment in my professional career." "And I'm gonna cry either way." "Hopefully I'm crying because I'm winning." " Cool." "All right." " Thanks, chef." " Blais enjoys breaking down a challenge, figuring out what, you know, the best way to go about it is." "So people who understand that and embrace it" "I think have an easier time." "Hey, antonia." " Hey, chef." " So cooking Morimoto's final meal." "It's a tough one." " Yes." "It's a tough one." "He said that it was specifically like what his mother used to make for him when he was playing baseball as a young child and would just come home and pretty much just inhale the entire thing." "And I'm just kind of stressed about the rice." "Like, he was saying how his mother actually sorted through it." " Sure." " You know, to make sure that every grain was perfect." "So that's pretty much my nerves going into it." "You know, I want to be able to re-create a sense of what he expects from this dish." " So hopefully he's out playing baseball right now." " So hopefully he's out playing baseball, and as soon as he sits down," "I'll call him in for dinner." " Good." "Good." "Good luck." " Thanks, chef." " So, antonia, in a way, the dish is very simple," "I think, from the judges' standpoint." "If it's a good version of all those dishes, she can compete." "This is, again, that chance for redemption." "You know, it means, I think, so much more than the $200,000 to each of the chefs." "Okay, chefs, a lot at stake here." "Cook your hearts out." " Thanks, chef." "Hamachi is just a really nice idea for, like, a raw preparation of fish." "It's kind of slimy." "I slice off a piece and put it in my mouth, and it tastes like..." "Like it's about to go rancid." "This fish is disgusting." "What am I gonna do?" "Blah." " You know, as time's running out," "I'm getting ready to unlock my pressure cooker." "I can't get the top off of it." "I can feel added pressure on me." ""Hey, remember when you choked in your finale?"" "It's haunted me." "I mean, I'm nervous." "Antonia, didn't you have trouble opening a pressure cooker recently?" " Uh, yeah." " I would definitely not want to live in Richard blais' brain, 'cause the guy's crazy." "He's gonna have a heart attack." " Got it." "I've won more Top Chef challenges than anyone else." "But I've never won the big game." "You know, I've choked once before." "So, I mean, I'm nervous." " Looks lovely." " I know." "It's beautiful." " I'd like to introduce all of you to Melanie Dunea, author and photographer of the book my last supper." "I know you know Michelle, because you worked with her on your book, correct?" " I photographed her a couple of years ago with her mom." "And we re-created her last supper fantasy." "So it was amazing." " How many chefs were in the first book?" " 50." " 50 chefs." " All right." "Cheers." " Cheers." " Thanks for being here." " Wishes for that." " Initially I want to use hamachi, but it does not taste like the way it's supposed to taste." "I decide to use tuna I found in the refrigerator." "Obviously it's not as flavorful as the hamachi." "I'm just hoping it's good enough to get me into the finale." " I'm gonna use that big fryer." " Just don't [Bleep] It up." " The components seem nice." "They seem good together." "One thing and one soup, please." "I just don't know if I've made Morimoto's mom's bento box." "Tonight I prepared a raw tuna, bento box-style, pickled daikon, kawari Sprout," "Asian pear, a polished rice, a little bit of pickled mushroom, and miso soup." "Enjoy." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Everybody, this dish is from my mother." " Would you eat a simple meal like this at home when you were growing up?" " How does this compare?" " Miso too salty." "She add a little bit of vinegar, like Sushi rice." "But I don't dislike it." " Oh, my God." " Let's get a drink." " The tuna blew out my mouth." "Completely." " Yeah, they're scotch bonnets." " Scotch bonnets... one tiny piece of scotch bonnet pepper, and you cannot taste the tuna, that's for sure." "And the season on the tuna was sort of nice." " I gobbled up the rice, which was delicious." " And to me, the hardest part would have been the rice." "She actually did the really difficult part rather well." " I love the Asian pear and mushroom pickle, actually." "I thought it was really bright." " I thought that was actually a good part of her thing." " I think the best thing is the eggplant." "That said, the problem I have with this is most Japanese food is very subtle, and that's why it's beautiful." "And there's nothing subtle about this." " It's gonna be a close one." "Everything's going good so far." "My empanadas came out awesome." "The fried chicken looks good." "You know, I think it's all gonna work." "Go." "Go to the next one." "I don't want to do plain fried chicken and a biscuit and some gravy on a plate." "I want to kind of just reinterpret her dish, but give her the same exact flavors." " Hi, Mike." "What did you make for us?" " Chef Michelle wanted me to make a fried chicken with biscuits and gravy." "So I took her classic dish and tired to put my touches on it." "So I have fried chicken, a little snap-pea puree underneath it with a little pea salad." "And then instead of the biscuit, I did a flaky empanada stuffed with a chicken egg yolk, and it has a mustard gravy." "Enjoy." "Thank you very much." " Thank you." " This is an elegant version of fried chicken, no?" " But I did tell him he could have creative license." " How did your mother make yours?" " My mother doesn't make fried chicken." "We're Jewish latins." "We don't know anything about fried chicken." " What do you think about the dish overall?" " I was a little blown away by the fact that he put an egg inside of an empanada and called that a biscuit." "But it's great." "It has a great texture." "It's soft on the inside, and it's crispy on the outside, like a biscuit would be." " Mm-Hmm." " My mom always tries to stick eggs into empanada, and I always ask her not to." "But this is good." " The batter on the white meat was not crispy for me." "It just... it came kind of flabby and slid right off." " Interesting way to go about fried chicken..." "Sous-viding the chicken first and then frying it." "The batter doesn't adhere..." "Or the flour doesn't really adhere to the chicken." "That said, I think it's a nice..." "I mean, I ate it." "I think it's a nice dish." " This, to me, is not what I would have done, but I love that." " Thank you." "One from there, one from here." "Thank you." "I'm feeling pretty good about my dish." "I like to use traditional flavors and then use the technology and the technique, so it changes the experience." "I'm hoping the judges are gonna be impressed." "Hi, everyone." " Hi, Richard." " So this is my interpretation of goulash with spaetzle and some frozen sour cream that's running up the side of the plate." "And then a strudel with a little bit of crumbled tarragon cream, some maple, and ras el hanout." "Enjoy." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Mmm." " Mmm." " Are you gonna move to Austria?" "Yeah." " Why not?" " Okay, see?" " Does this remind you of your childhood?" " You know, absolutely." "Goulash for us was something really special." "We didn't eat a lot of meat." "My mother gave us maybe two pieces of meat, a lot of sauce, a lot of potatoes or noodles or spaetzle, whatever she made with it." " I question the onion." "I think it's undercooked." "I wish the dish were hotter." " I thought the spaetzle..." "It might have been a little hot." "It might have sat in the kitchen for a long time." " I have to say, Richard's strudel's outstanding." "The flavors, the nuts, everything just came together really, really nicely." " I really love what he's done here, because you see the touches of what Richard really does." "But he's kept the integrity of the dish beautifully." " Even my mother would have approved of it." "But I hope it's not my last dinner." "God, they're gonna be like," ""antonia, what didn't you pickle on this plate?"" " Dish was a little cold." "It's hard doing, you know, 8, 16 plates." "Like, the timing of it..." "I don't know, man." " Oh,." " Mike grasped a lot of the parts of what I told him." "I think he was super creative." " He tried to be over-creative." "We love food like the way our mother cook." " [Bleep], man." "If I go home tonight, I'm gonna be [Bleep] So livid." "I'm..." " Antonia..." "I could see where she really did try to be delicate." "I thought her three vegetables were beautiful, and I really was glad that they were there." " Richard had the goulash." "I think he really did a great job with that, because to keep things simple, and he used the best ingredients." " He had an amazing balance between Richard's modernism and what Wolfgang wanted from his childhood without messing with it." "It was cooked beautifully and that it still reminded us of what it was supposed to be." " Chefs..." "Judges' table is starting right now." "As you know, only two of you will move on to the finale." "Michelle..." " Mike, two things that we talked about was that the chicken had to be super juicy and really crispy." "Not so juicy." "Crispy, yes, but the breading was falling off." "Hadn't it been for those two things," "I think that it would have been really perfect." " Thank you, chef." " Richard, the goulash..." "I don't know how you got the flavors so right on." "But the spaetzle..." "I thought it was really tough." " Thank you." "Thank you very much." " Thank you." " Richard, if this season was about redemption for you, you are one step closer." "You will be cooking in the finale." " Thanks." " Congratulations." " Thank you." " Wolf was being hard on you." "He actually said his mother is probably smiling down on you saying, "yes, you can cook in Austria one day," so nice job." " I'm elated." "I'm through to the final round." "Now I've gotten to where I did on my season." "And I've accomplished one of my two missions." "That was to get to the final round and be someone who's gone through two seasons of Top Chef and never had to hear Padma say," ""please pack your knives and go."" " Antonia and Mike..." "Only one of you will be moving on to join Richard to cook for the title of Top Chef." "You remember this?" " Oh,." " Oh,." " Chefs, you remember this?" " Top Chef is known for throwing twists and a wrench in, you know, whatever plan you might have had." " I honestly have no idea what is in the envelope." "I just don't know." "And I'm the most nervous I've ever been in my entire life." " You know, everyone has speculations on this." "I don't like to speculate, but I'm sure it's gonna be something that's gonna make something a little bit tougher." " I can see it on their faces." "I'm just glad I'm not in their shoes." " Antonia and Mike, only one of you will be moving on to join Richard to cook for the title of Top Chef." "You remember this?" " "There will be one more challenge to determine who claims the last spot in the finale."" " Chefs, you have 45 minutes to go back in the kitchen and make us one bite." "Seven of us here, seven bites..." "Make it perfect." "Whoever wins is getting that last spot." " Your time..." "Starts now." " One last bite..." "Like, end of story." " This is definitely the most pressure I've felt throughout the competition..." "I mean, this is it." " It's very nerve-racking." "It's like, we just finished a cook, and I feel like I'm definitely battered at this point." "Behind." "It's that last leg of the race, and it's like..." "Can I keep going?" " I want to do something bold with some textures, but I don't want to do something that..." "Anyone else would do." "So I grab some beef tenderloin, and I grab lobster tails." "You know, I wanted to go with high-end product." "If you're gonna do one bite, you want it to taste good, so you want the best product you can get." "Creativity..." "I'm gonna blow it out of the water compared to her." "But if she executes a perfect fish and sauce, she could be moving on to the finale." "I mean, it's that close." "It's that close." " Do you have the sugar over there?" " Right here." " I find grouper." "I think to myself to do sort of a spicy coconut curry broth." "Do you have a peeler?" " What do you need?" " A peeler." " Uh, in my bag." " This elimination challenge," "I wasn't connected to my dish." "Here's my second chance." "I'm just trying to put together a very aggressive dish to show the judges who I am as a chef and as a person and what I'm capable of." "It's kind of like what we've been doing this entire time..." "Just giant quick-fires." " I'm sweating." "My heart's racing." "I'm a mess." "But I believe in my dish." "I'll be ready." "I'll be ready." "Ah." " This is 31 challenges just from this season, and the only thing in the back of my mind is this is my last chance to get to the finale." "Like, this needs to be good." " After cooking for the elimination tonight, they figured, okay, this is it." "They got through it." "And all of a sudden coming out here and realizing you have to go back in, and you have very little time to actually conceive of a dish and then cook it..." "One little mistake can get you ejected, and so the pressure's really, really high." " And don't forget that there's $200,000 at stake." " Can I get in the kitchen?" " I know." "Right." " Good luck." " So I did a seared grouper on top of a relish of yam, apple, and dill pollen, finished with a little coconut curry lobster broth, peanuts, and cilantro." " Okay." " Since I was in the Caribbean, I did surf and turf." "I did a tempura lobster tail over beef tartare, which is sitting on top of a red chili potatoes, and the sauces on the plate is a black olive caramel and a chimichurri." "So you should have a lot of bold flavors." "Hopefully you enjoy." " Enjoy." " Thank you." " Thank you." " I love the idea of Antonia's dish." "I think she had something really bright, something that used the local ingredients." "But it was very powerful..." "The sauce." " It could be what she was going for." "You know, with one bite, if you can leave something really powerful and strong, that's gonna stand out." " I have a little bit different opinion." "The grouper are very simple fish." "So that's why she put a lot of different spices and then match with the curry sauce." " I know you cooked a perfect fish, and you did a nice sauce." "You're gonna beat me with it." " Honestly, I have no idea." " Let's talk about Mike's dish." " I love, you know, the lobster... crispy lobster on the top." "It didn't wow me with flavor." "I ate it before Antonia's, which really wowed me with flavor." "But that olive sauce really Drew me in." " When I tasted this olive caramel on its own, I actually despised it." "But when I put it together with the meat, with the potatoes, and a little bit of the chimichurri, it did work." "It's something I've never seen before." " The only thing that I was a little bit shocked at was the differences in the colors, and, again, I'm visual, you guys." " Well, you eat with your eyes first." " That's true." " This is kind of a totally..." " Opposite sides of the spectrum." " So very difficult." " I just don't want to fall one short." " It's not an easy decision at all." " If I had to eat one of these dishes again," "I would prefer to eat Michael's." " Okay." "Michelle, what about you?" " I'm gonna have to choose Michael's." " Morimoto?" " Antonia." " I agree with you." "I choose Antonia's." "Melanie." " I think I'm gonna go with antonia as well." " Tom." " I prefer Michael's dish." "As one bite, I prefer it better." " So it looks like we have a tie." "Wolfgang, what do you think?" " If tomorrow I would wake up, which flavor I remember, it would be Antonia's flavor, whereas Michael's tartare was technically prepared perfectly." "It is a very difficult decision to make." " It sucks it comes down to one bite." " It's like sudden-death o.T." "Sounds like you both threw down, though." "My stomach feels like it's just being ripped out." "You feel like you want to throw up." "Execution, creativity..." "That's what it's gonna be right now." " I can't keep still." "My toe just shaking and tapping." "I want it so badly." " One of you will be joining Richard in the finale." " Antonia, you gave us a curry dish with grouper." "Very aggressive on the spice." "There were some great notes in there as well, a great use of vegetables." "It was, all around, a good dish." "Michael, the tartare was a little on the bland side." "The two sauces kind of added some punch." "I gotta say, this was a very tough decision, and in fact this was a split, three to four." "It was that close." " You came into this as competitors, you leave as cousins." " I hate to see either one of you go, but only one more can come along and join Richard." " Antonia, please pack your knives and go." " Congratulations." " Mike, congratulations." " Thank you so much." "Thank all of you." " Thank you, chefs." " Thanks for the opportunity." " Thank you." " It's just like having your stomach just drop." "I'm just really disappointed." "I've been here before." "But it feels worse this time." " I mean, it's tough, but I think that's the right decision." "The curry was just too over-spiced." " So much work to get so close." "And then you just have it go away." "It's really hard." "Always a pleasure coming to finale with you." "My daughter is the only thing that would probably make me feel better now." "She's proud no matter what." "Bye, guys." " I've been here before." " Good luck with everything, man." "It's what we wanted." "We got it." " Doing this ignites the passion of cooking." "It reminds me of how much I love what I do." "I just want to be a chef." " Next on Top Chef all-stars..." " We want you to create for us the restaurant of your dreams." " Goosebumps." " This is it." "This is the championship round." "It's the super bowl." " Some of you are gonna be working as sous chefs." " How's it going?" " All right." "Good." "I'm in the weeds, but you know." " In the weeds?" "Why are you in the weeds?" " I quit my job." "I missed my honeymoon." "I have to win this.." " Hopefully I don't blow it this time." "I'm really worried." "Maybe I came all the way out here, got all the way up to this point again, and didn't do it again." " Two very talented chefs." " Wow, that is a nice plate of food." " This is as good as anybody's food in the finale." " Let me compose myself here a little bit." "Whew!" " You are Top Chef." "For more about the recipes seen tonight,"