Busy day.....how did that happen?

Today I had a client meeting at 10 and it lasted about two hours. That pushed back lunch a bit, which made the afternoon go by faster than expected and meant dinner time arrived pretty quickly. I'm on a BYOB kick, so I used the search function on Time Out Chicago's website that allows you to search only BYOB restaurants. It was pretty cool!

Ricardo had actually walked by the restaurant which we went to, Bonsoiree, on west Armitage. Take a look at their website and you'll notice the menu is extremely limited. It's not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but the food is almost all made from really fresh ingredients and it is BYOB, with only a $5 corkage fee. One of the chef's and partial owner came out and spoke with us for probably 15 minutes while we talked about everything food. Good times. It's a smaller restaurant too and gave us the feeling of eating at Scylla with chef Stephanie. My dish in fact was very similar to, but not as good as, what I had at Scylla on one occasion.

So the top three chefs are always brought out first when brought in front of the judges on Top Chef 4. Yet the chefs always seem unsure as to why they are being called in front of the judges first. No one seems excited when they get called first. I don't get it. Anyway, the challenge was a bit odd, but everyone at least followed the rules this time. In case you didn't see it, the BCD gals will have a full write up about it soon. The chefs had to cook a balanced, healthy meal for four for under $10. Stephanie was again in the worst three dishes and she mixed peanut butter together with tomatoes somehow over couscous which wasn't cooked well. Her dish was lousy and she probably should have been sent home. I hope she gets her shit together after this terrible recent run.