It was the showdown in the Bahamas, pitting two polar opposites: Mike Isabella, the brash, swaggering bull of a guy with the passion for big flavor, and Richard Blais, the neurotic perfectionist with the spiky hair who every week seemed to pull a new trick out of his knife bag. With $200,000 plus extras at stake, each was given five hours to prepare “the restaurant of their dreams.”<\/p>\n
The season finale of Bravo’s “Top Chef All-Stars” Wednesday night was vintage material.<\/p>\n
There were the two competitors, each charismatic in his own way. There was the twist (it’s “Top Chef”; of course there was a twist): Each chef had to choose a team of three helpers from the season’s also-rans, but had to do it by blind-tasting a series of dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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