Of all of the Bravo s
Top Chef challenges, none is more revered and feared among the contestants than Restaurant Wars. However, the stakes were even higher for the two teams in Season 18, who, instead of executing two pop-up restaurant concepts as usual, were tasked with serving the judges a seven-course tasting menu at each of their respective chef s tables due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
What didn t change was the fact that one chef still had to go home at the end of the Elimination Challenge. That was unfortunately Sara Hauman. Although the judges enjoyed her crispy salmon skin with pak choi, turnips, and hazelnut brown butter sauce, they weren t as big of fans of her other dish, a halibut crudo with ajo blanco sauce and confit green tomato.
The Bravo s
Top Chef Season 18 contestants stepped out of the kitchen and into the great outdoors in the April 22 episode. The cheftestants headed about an hour east of Portland to Oregon s famed Hood River Fruit Loop where they hand-picked fruit to feature in their dish for the Elimination Challenge.
This seemed to be one of the toughest Elimination Challenges for the Season 18 cheftestants so far. Not only did the dish have to be savory, but they also couldn t incorporate any vegetables in their creation. Cooking outside with weather conditions like wind definitely made it a different experience than being in the kitchen as well.
Top Chef Season 18 s Roscoe Hall Reveals New Job After Leaving Rodney Scott s BBQ
The Season 18 cheftestant shared some major life updates since his time in the culinary competition.
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As the culinary director of Rodney Scott s BBQ, Bravo s
Top Chef Season 18 contestant Roscoe Hall certainly impressed the judges with his resume. Unfortunately, he wasn t able to wow them with his dish in the first Elimination Challenge of the season, duck adobo with sweet potato dumplings, becoming the first cheftestant of Season 18 that Padma Lakshmi told to pack your knives and go.