You would eat that? A fan’s guide to Top Chef Season Five Elimination Challenge dishes - Episode One

Written by Steve · Filed Under The Chew 
November 13, 2008 | Email this post |

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Leading up to last night’s season five premiere of Top Chef, I couldn’t decide how I wanted to cover my favorite reality show on The Chew Blog for The Dagger. I thought about live blogging each show, but decided against that for many reasons*.

So I decided to highlight the top and bottom three dishes from the elimination challenges based one one simple criteria. What would I chose to eat? I am, by no means, a food critic, and have probably not even tasted half the stuff on the contestants plate. Still, I love food.

So here are last nights top and bottom three elimination plates, in no particular order, chosen by me and not the judges, with pics:

Bottom 3

Radhika: Jerk rubbed halibut with ginger beer cocktail - Looks like an overseasoned piece of fish on top of a bocaburger.

Jamie: Pan roasted sea bass and eggplant puree with wile arugula salad - The salad looks ok, but the fish looks bland and is on top of what must be baby food.

Carla: Smoked trout and salmon cakes with sour cream and caviar over potato latkes - How Carla knew that the movie Wall-E would be coming out this week when this episode was taped, I’ll never know. Stare at this dish for a while and you will swear the cavier blinks at you.

Top 3:

Jeff: Cuban coffee seared tenderloin, smoked plantain with black beans and rice - Yeah it was incomplete and doesn’t look very good on the plate, but I can dig the flavors he was going for.

Jill: Jerk seasoned scallops with plantain fritters and three sauces - Have to go with the local girl, right? This looks and sounds like something I would order off a menu. I understand it.

Eugene: Dry rub lamb with basmati sweet rice, tzatziki with tandoori glaze - I usually like my meats a touch more done that this, but this looks like it would have awesome flavors throughout the meat and rice.

* If you want to read live blogged posts, be sure to check out NYMag’s Grub Street blog, and more locally, Baltimore Snacker’s Top Chef coverage.