4 chef season top won

Reality TV justice has been served. And guess what? It turns out good guys (and girls) do sometimes finish first. Oh, if only the fate of all tired axioms rested in the hands of Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio!
But what a long, strange trip it was. Mid-season, who ever would have guessed that hometown gal Stephanie Izard would have to duke it out with Lisa in the finale to win the title of Top Chef? Even Stephanie herself says she wouldn’t have placed Lisa in the top four—at least, that’s what she told us last week.
The finale wasn’t all smooth sailing for the first female Top Chef. Our hearts sank as we watched the judges’ reaction to Stephanie’s ricotta pound cake, and for a moment, we thought it might all be slipping away. Then we remembered that this was the same woman who impressed
pastry queen Gale Gand with her wedding cake a few episodes back. How bad could it be? Certainly not any worse than the slow death-by-repetition offered by yet another banana “scallop” from Richard. (It’s a shock he didn’t serve it with ras el hanout ice cream.)
Really, it came down to the third course. Note to Lisa: When you’re serving dinner to the man behind Craftsteak, you can grunt and pout all you want, but you don’t mess with his
restaurant she told us about last week. If they don’t, we fully expect Ted Allen to be there asking his server if he can at least get a bowl of braised pistachios.
No word yet on when Season 5 of “Top Chef” will launch, or how it will possibly stack up to the double thrill of a Chicago chef winning a Chicago-based Season 4. As soon as we know more, you’ll be the next to know.

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