Wow!!! Last night’s episode of Chopping Block was AWESOME!!! For those who missed it, The BOH chefs went to Central Park to meet a guy who seemed to be an expert on natural foods, as in foods that grow all around us that you can actually eat. They started picking grasses and leaves and the guy kept making terrible puns and really bad jokes. Thank God I wasn’t there, or I would’ve been cracking up the whole time! Not to mention I wouldn’t want to eat what’s growing in Central Park! (After hours it serves as a public restroom for New York’s homeless community) When the chefs returned to the restaurant, they had to plan their menus for dinner service, using ingredients found in the park. Meanwhile, FOH had the challenge of trying to set up the restaurant for an unknown amount of guests.
At the end of last weeks episode, after Panya rallied to get Chad and I chopped, like the shark that she is, she immediately went after her next prey, Vanessa. Needless to say, this resulted in a rather obvious tension between them, all the while poor Anapol was left to act as intermediary between them. From what I could tell, the service was chaos as usual. And although Panya claims otherwise, she really didn’t seem to be helping the situation. I really wished I could’ve been there, I wanted to help so much when I saw how bad they were struggling. At one point a guest was even seated with a dirty tablecloth. Now I’ve said before that this wasn’t the restaurant’s fault, as we only had enough linens for a few rounds of service. (We literally bought all that we could find!) Not to mention, that the producers failed to get a linen service the way any normal restaurant would have. Kelsey in a very ballsy move, decided to step up and play Head Chef for the night. Which at first frightened me, because she had to have known that if something went wrong, she would be held accountable (especially by Michael and Panya) But I think its amazing that despite that, she rose to the challenge!
The next day, everyone discovers that the diners were actually the critics this time and they were rated using a Zagat rating system. Long story short, the red team lost, however I believe it was serendipitous because even though they lost, it allowed them to eliminate the real problem. This time, Anapol stood up and revealed that Panya was a trouble maker and was the true root of the red teams problems. The sad part is that Michael (her fiancee) always seemed to get dragged down by her mouth. I believe that Michael is a good chef and despite his paranoia, has the potential to do well in the industry. However Panya disagrees with Anapol and starts going on about how no one respects her and she’s the only person who’s “honest”. The argument continues with Vanessa (and everyone else except Michael) trying to explain their reasoning to Panya, but she can’t shut up for one minute to let anyone else talk. Then the bitch does the unthinkable, she pulls the freakin race card!!!
Shut the F up!!! I can’t believe that she had the audacity to think she could get away with that!!! Panya’s desperation reaches an all time low, and the look in Marco’s eyes seems to be that of pure distilled 100 proof anger. Marco finally realizes that Hurricane Panya is truly a destructive force and makes the chop! (Even though I tried to tell him that last week!!!!)
I’m glad Panya finally got what she deserved, it just sucked that red team had to lose in order to win. Its like when you have to cut off a leg to stop the cancer from spreading. I hope that now they can work together to get back some of that momentum they had in the beginning.
Cheers,
Mikey
Didn’t the show just get canceled? If so too bad, I really enjoyed it.