Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Quickfire Challenge! With guest judge Grant Achatz. The challenge was to put "their own spin" on a recipe assigned to them from the Top Chef cook book. La la la they're going along,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Post-Tribal Council, and the newly merged "Nobag" tribe ("Nobag"? Really??) was shaky. Corinne realized she was doomed. She and Randy bonded over their hate of everyone alive. Bob told Sugar he didn't find
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV This week Marjorie tried to convince herself that she'd try to calm the hell down and not let her nerves get to her, although she was also under the impression that her nerves
SF News Top Chefs Tell All Tomorrow Night The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, as most of you know, host some amazing speakers. Nothing new, right? But tomorrow night's gathering is, as they say, not to be missed. Tomorrow night, you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Which leaves us with "The Bacherlorette" and local bachelor and chef Robert Fair. Last week we were perturbed by his inability to completely button up a shirt, and this week's episode was no
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Let's start with a little bit of "Top Chef" coverage. Lisa was in the bottom two again last week. AND SHE WASN'T ELIMINATED. AGAIN. Which means she's made it to the final four.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Now, Dale was a pain in the ass, that's for sure, but he seemed to have a hell of a lot more talent than Lisa, and if he hadn't assumed the head chef
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Anyway, last week we lost Ryan, leaving Jennifer the last local standing. But for how long?? At Chez Chef, Twitchy McTwit was pleased "pretty boy" Ryan had left, while admitting the place had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV As for this season, well, last week saw the elimination of Zoi, which did not please her girlfriend Jen one bit. She's out for blood! The next morning Spike knew others thought he
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Zoi was still pissed about getting placed in the bottom at the last challenge, and Jen thought it was bogus as well. Of course. But to their credit, so far their status as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Which leaves us with "Top Chef," where three locals remain after last week's knifing of Erik "Tacos Are From the Street!" Hopfinger. At the top of the show, there was some bitching from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Date Box! Hollie read the note, and eight girls, including herself, would be putting on some kind of runway show. Oh, "The Bachelor." We have seen "Project Runway;" "Project Runway" is our friend
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV, Pt. 2 Previously on "Top Chef," our four local chefs remained, despite questionable interpretations of classic entrees. In the Top Chef Chateau, Jen and Zoi tried each others shoes on while interviewing that they were
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV, Pt. 2 Here's part two of our Reality TV locals round-up. You can read part one here. Yay! Another season of "Top Chef," and it has an overwhelming four locals chefs competing this season. Let's
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles,
Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday brings you
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the East Bay Express: Letters about the bloggers fighting in small claims court. A Berkeley activist opposed to B-Town Dollar Stores, moves, says it's reverse racism. A fun-loving amputees' group called
Arts & Entertainment Top Chef: We Told You So Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and often-guest (and apparent season 3 regular) Ted Allen were there to judge. At stake? $20k to charity of the winning team's choice. All this one was missing was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight The winner of last season's "American Inventor" isn't exactly rocking the very foundation of American living, (for the record, the winning invention was some kind of child's car seat), but perhaps this season
Arts & Entertainment She's Everywhere! We Talk To TWOP's Keckler, aka Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a culinary school graduate that writes about food and television. What's not to love? She's best known for her scathing, funny, and exhaustive coverage of several shows over
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Stick A Fork In It; It's Done Hey, folks, welcome to our weekly opinions on the past week's , which we hope will spur you to watch tonight's episo-- What? Last week was it? No after-season wrap-up where they contestants yell
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: It Takes More Than A Little Paprika To Make Me Cry Geez -- itself might make us cry. But you know what's really interesting about Top Chef? Even though it's come off the rails, it's still pretty compelling. However, the wind has been further
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Bald Truth--It Ain't About The Food A lot of stupid crap for a show where the mantra has been "it's all about the food." We still enjoy the show, but believe that the producers should (and will) be a
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> La-La-Later -- First and foremost, we (usually) like it and want to help keep it on the air. We figure that sharing what happened last week on the day a new episode is about
