With the competition down to Carla, Hosea and Stefan, season five of "Top Chef" came to an end last night.
Going into the finale Stefan was the hands down favorite, having won a majority of the quickfires and elimination challenge. Carla has been building momentum with wins in the last few weeks and Hosea has been consistently solid throughout the competition.
For the finale judges asked the chefs to cook their best three course meal. With no restrictions, the contestants were let loose in New Orleans' legendary Commander's Palace.
Stefan served up his usual classic European flavor with a side of unfathomable cockiness, Hosea won a surprise Mardi Gras challenge a gave Stefan a giant screw you by making him cook alligator and Carla had perhaps the worst finale of any contestant in the show's history.
With Carla's bad luck taking her out of the running, it came down to mortal enemies Stefan and Hosea.
In the end it was Hosea's progression of flavors that won him the title. Stefan had a few moments of disbelief when his name wasn't announced and went on and on about how he should have won, giving new meaning to the term sore loser.
It was definitely the most exciting and interesting of all the show's finales. However, it seemed obvious to me that if Carla hadn't made a couple of bad choices she would have been crowned Top Chef.
Hosea, while a nice guy and a dependable chef, will go down in history as the Taylor Hicks of "Top Chef."
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