We're all about those indulgent dishes you shouldn't have too often! Starting in Portland, Oregon, we check out a food cart serving up a burger that's stacked with mozzarella sticks and fried fish. There's a savory-and-sweet shop in Louisville, Kentucky, serving a gravy-smothered doughnut sandwich and a 24-layer chocolate cake in New York City. Later, there's a guilty pleasure seafood pot pie in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a monumentally huge pile of meat-and-cheese-covered curly fries in Riverside, California, and a lobster-stuffed burger topped with a lobster claw in Minneapolis. Finally, we're checking out Southern-fried chicken sandwiches in Los Angeles and mac-and-cheese pancakes in Queens, New York.
The Kitchen is throwing out the recipe rulebook and making fun recipes with just a dash of controversy. Sunny Anderson makes an Easy Lobster Tail Mac & Cheese to impress, while Jeff Mauro does the unthinkable with a Frozen to Pan Steak. Then, Alex Guarnaschelli whips up her controversial Fideo soup, and Katie Lee Biegel breaks all the baking rules as she mixes up her Do Nothing Cake. Plus, Geoffrey Zakarian and the hosts share some shocking kitchen dos and don'ts.
First, the four grannies create handheld versions of mac and cheese to hold the family over until dinner. Next, they have only 30 minutes to make meatloaf for unexpected guests, with the help of unexpected sous chefs: the grandpas! Then, the final two grandmas try to freeze out the competition by producing an ice cream sandwich worthy of the $10,000 prize using liquid nitrogen. The judging panel features Food Network Star winner Eddie Jackson, TV host Brandi Milloy and chef Jamika Pessoa.
The Kitchen crew takes a tour of street foods from around the world! The Iron Chefs team up to make Parisian crepes with Alex Guarnaschelli's Crepe with Salty Ham and Cheese Sauce and Geoffrey Zakarian’s Crepes with Lemon Ricotta and Very Dark Chocolate. Then, Katie Lee Biegel hits the streets of Italy with Fried Calamari, Sandwich King Jeff Mauro puts a spin on a classic with his Chicken Milanesa Torta and Sunny Anderson recreates a fun favorite with Sunny's Fried Spiral Potatoes.
This trip, Guy Fieri's diggin' into some diverse dishes on both sides of the Pacific. In Los Angeles, the East Coast buddies piling on a plateful of guilty pleasures like the Fat Jerry sammie, a smorgasbord of fried favorites from chicken fingers to mozzarella sticks to steak, where he's joined by actor Jerry Ferrara. In Monterey, Calif., the boat-to-table spot on the pier crankin' out all kinds of fresh fish like the abalone sliders and the seasonal crab feast. In Aiea, Hawaii, the double-duty bowling alley/restaurant is keeping it funky with one of DDD's best-ever oxtail soups and the flavorful grilled turkey sandwich.