Things get hot for Duff Goldman and his crew as they create a fire-shooting Mexican fiesta cake for hot sauce giant Tapatio and a towering cookie cake for a Los Angeles convention. The gang must turn up the heat in the bakery to make tons of realistic food items out of sugar, plus Duff tries to put fire inside the cake and fellow baker Ron Ben-Israel shows up to join the fun!
In Dallas, flavors collide when Tyler Florence brings Mexican, Laotian and American chefs to a local Mediterranean hot spot to duke it out for the title of Bite Club Champion. In round one, the chefs use a giant wood-fired grill to tackle poblano peppers and pancetta. But time is not on their side for the second challenge when they must cook dishes combining ruby red grapefruit, quail eggs and brisket in under 30 minutes.
In Queens, New York, Michael Symon dives into the juiciest, meatiest, triple-stacked burger with beef, lamb and turkey. Some of the most authentic Mexican lamb barbacoa this side of the border is found in Houston, Texas, where it's wrapped in fresh banana leaves and oven-roasted until the meat falls off the bone. And finally, in Atlanta, one barbecue joint is smoking everything from meatloaf to turkey tacos and even their guacamole.
Guy Fieri does takeout in Triple-D style, combining great restaurant food with cooking at home. Four DDD alums send ingredients for their most-dynamite recipes then join Guy and his son, Hunter, via video chat to cook up all that flavor. The menu includes a Chinese-Mexican mix from Phoenix, Florida alligator fritters, a creole meatloaf straight from a California beach and chicken wings from one of Guy's favorite hometown spots.
Guy Fieri's hitting the road and digging into joints that are loading it, stuffing it and frying it. In Santa Fe, NM, a farm-to-table gem putting out hearty goodness like bison gravy fries and a lights-out lamb sandwich. In Kansas City, KS, a funky Mexican seafood spot fryin' fish and stuffin' outrageous oysters, and in El Paso, Texas, a barbecue joint serving up fully loaded baked potatoes and serious smoked sausage.
This trip, Guy's mixin' his love of home cooking with his appreciation of homebrew. In Chicago, a dive refines small plate Mexican with dishes like shiitake mushroom empanadas and flautas with homemade queso fresco. In Mooresville, Ind., a New Orleans native is scratch cookin' hometown favorites like jambalaya and blackened catfish. And in Tampa Bay, Fla., the brew is flowing outside the tap and into the kitchen on favorites like meatloaf with homebrewed demi glace.