Grant Achatz As Guest Judge On Tomorrow's Top Chef

For Top Chef it is another day in paradise as they prepare for the inevitable Turkey Day challenge that is prevalent in the shows this week, even though we know they filmed this prior to Thanksgiving. All is especially well with Fabio as he still basks in the short-lived glory of winning the last challenge.

It is short-lived because as we all know, it is always “What have you cooked for me lately” from the judges and, of course, any finicky guest that may be invited to sample the chef’s cooking. This week those guest are the band, The Foo Fighters. Maybe, they should just change their names to the “Food” fighters for the night. Maybe not.

In previous episode when Tom’s restaurant was the temporary home for the Top Chefs and Fabio’s subsequent win and we were privy to the glorious morning afterglow with Fabio. He was greeted by Stefan and congratulated and Fabio wondered if he could carry his winning ways through the next Quickfire challenge.

The chefs looked like they were all still beat as they dragged themselves into the Quickfire where they found Padma waiting for them with guest judge, Grant Achatz, from Alinea’s restaurant in Chicago. Padma told them Happy Thanksgiving and announced that the Quickfire challenge was all about “Rolling with the punches” and had the chefs each pull a knife with weird numbers that had the chefs wondering. After giving the chefs their assignments, Padma said they had an hour and the chefs scrambled as they do every Quickfire, to prepare a dish that would give them immunity for the next challenge.