Watch What We Say: Top Chef

By Jason Lee

January 23, 2009

We really liked Radhika, but her performance in the last two episodes was brutal.

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Tom takes this as his cue to unleash on her and he does, saying that she didn't lead, she didn't direct. "Did you think it was your responsibility to lead this team?" he wants to know. "We never felt that you were in the game in the front of the house. We walked out without a goodbye."

Toby continues the diatribe, saying that she didn't follow through on anything. Stephen, our guest judge, chimes in with, "When you own a restaurant, you have to assume that no one will do their job properly."

Okay, let's just end this now. Let's just stop the pain. I hate Leah and I hate Stefan. I hate them both so much but neither one of them is going home. It's going to be Radhika, a chef that I like a lot, and I'm not happy about this. Not happy at all.

As the judges call the team back out, Tom issues final statements. Jeff and Jaime pulled their own weight and they're safe. As the chef-owner, Radhika needed to be involved with every aspect of the
restaurant but didn't carry that through in the hospitality aspect or organizing the menu. Carla's desserts left the final impression of the night and that impression was of failure.




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But in the end, it is Radhika who's asked to pack her knives and go.

It's hard to argue with the judges, but I'm extremely sad to see such a warm-hearted, talented chef go home . . . especially while the horrible Leah and Stefan remain.

Radhika closes by saying that she's extremely disappointed that in a cooking competition, she's going home for her performance in the front of the house. She says in retrospect, she should have put Jeff in the front. She tries too hard to accommodate people and she's learned from that.

I've learned that talent shows up sometimes in the worst people - Stefan really saved his team with the desserts and if he'd just messed up one of them, maybe his team would have been on the bottom and Leah would have been going home. If nothing else, I'm comforted by the idea that this forces Leah and Hosea to spend more time together and that maybe they'll take their adulterous affair farther. I hope they do, cause then their respective boyfriends and girlfriends can provide the type of beat down that they deserve. It'd be my sole consolation.


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