Top Chef Masters · S2 · E1
First Date Dinner
The chefs are tasked with using aphrodisiac ingredients while creating dinners that would be appropriate for a first date.
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The chefs are tasked with using aphrodisiac ingredients while creating dinners that would be appropriate for a first date.
Season 2
1First Date Dinner
Apr 7, 2010Now viewing
The chefs are tasked with using aphrodisiac ingredients while creating dinners that would be appropriate for a first date.
2It's My Party
Apr 14, 2010
The chefs cater a celebrity birthday party. This time it’s Mekhi Phifer and he’s requesting a soul food-themed feast for his birthday party. The chef’testants up to bat tonight are David Burke, Marcus Samuelsson, Monica Pope, Thierry Rautureau and Carmen Gonzalez.
3Pub Food
Apr 21, 2010
Convincing high-brow clients of pub grub's merits is tonight's seemingly impossible challenge for the chefs as they try to show that flair and flavor can be found in other than haute cuisine. Competing chefs, Graham Elliot Bowles, Jonathan Waxman, Ludo Lefebvre, Mark Peel, Rick Moonen and Wylie Dufresne are tasked to reimagine old-school pub grub.
4Cast and Crew Meal
Apr 28, 2010
op Chef Masters Season Two there are only five chefs left to compete in the first level for the final two spots in the champion round. Susur Lee, Rick Tramanto, Maria Hines, Debbie Gold, and Jody Adams. All but Susur have been awarded a James Beard. The chefs dabble in craft service as they prepare meals for the cast and crew of ABC's Modern Family.
5Wedding Wars
May 5, 2010
Top Chef's brutal tag team relay begins the first champions round Quickfire, followed by the dreaded wedding elimination challenge—the first time the master chefs have seen this particular trial—and this time there's no cheats: the person with the lowest score packs their knives, so everyone must put his or her best dish forward… even if it is a wedding cake.
6Scary Surf & Turf
May 12, 2010
The chefs are asked to create Quickfire dishes inspired by Simpsons characters who then judge them, and then they must turn their skills toward making offal tasty in a surf & turf presentation.
7Tailgating
60 minMay 19, 2010
It's a Quickfire with a very specific focus: the leg. Once the chefs have butchered and prepared their dishes, they must then turn their skills to an even bigger challenge, preparing a tailgate feast for college football fans.
8Food of the Gods
60 minMay 26, 2010
The Masters are challenged to create a divine dish inspired by a Greek God. The blind taste test returns with the "Name That Ingredient" Quickfire, and then the chefs look to Greece and the ancient gods as inspiration for their elimination dishes.
9Improv
60 minJun 2, 2010
Taking inspiration from Top Chef Chicago's season four, the remaining chefs must use unusual pairings from Los Angeles' The Groundlings improv troupe to create dishes.
10Top Chef Master
60 minJun 9, 2010
The remaining three chefs face their final challenge.