David's firehouse Buffalo Chicken Lasagna recipe is so amazing, thousands of firefighters across the country clamor for the recipe, and Sunny heads to River Grove, Ill., to get it! Then Sunny meets Jeneen of Queens, N.Y., to get the recipe for her Four-Layer Cheesecake that is so good, Jeneen, a singer/baker, sold it at her gigs around New York to raise money to cut her first album.
Hold on to your ham hocks as celebrities and Food Network Stars plead their cases for their favorite decadent dishes! Jaleel White satisfies his craving for Chinese with a pastrami eggroll in New York City, Joey Lawrence fires up dessert with a baked Alaska in Beverly Hills, Fabio Viviani confesses to a poutine burger fix in Austin, and Jeff Mauro goes German with a pork schnitzel sandwich in Chicago.
Franco Noriega recreates the meal that made him fall in love with New York City. His reimagined Steak Frites covered with a bright green Chimichurri is paired with fluffy and crunchy Twice-Baked Potato Wedges. Then, a brown butter lemon sauce and crispy parmesan chips make his Parmesan Lemon Asparagus the ideal side, while an ooey-gooey Lava Chocolate Chip Cookie is the perfect sweet surprise-inside dessert.
New York Chef extraordinaire Seamus Mullen enters Kitchen Stadium for the first time since competing in Next Iron Chef season 2 to take on Iron Chef Cat Cora. Will Chef Mullen take what he learned in the Next Iron Chef competition and bring his A game to Kitchen stadium, or will be feel the heat of defeat to Iron Chef Cora? Tune in to see whose cuisine reigns supreme!
"Fashion is fickle but food is forever," ...at least that’s what several of our guests claim who left the glam NYC world of high fashion to enter the food business. We’ll meet a former textile designer who now invents specialty cakes and an ex-model who co-owns a very fashionable wine and tapas bar in New York’s Meatpacking District.
With five celebrity contestants remaining, Rachael and Guy lead their teams out to the street to reveal this week's challenge: lunch carts! Each team will operate their own curb-side lunch cart to serve over a hundred New York City pedestrians. The patrons fill out comment cards and a winning team is declared. The bottom two celebrities battle it out in a sudden-death elimination challenge to remain in the competition.
After three seasons of hosting, Eddie Jackson decides it's now his time to compete against home cook Komal Montgomery. Ted Allen guest hosts as Eddie and Komal try to wing it in a battle of quail. Their fate is in the hands of a panel of judges that Ted finds on the streets of New York City, and if Komal can get one vote, she'll walk away with $5,000.
Burger lovers rejoice! Top 5 Restaurants shows you where to sink your teeth into juicy, melty, beef and cheese goodness. There's a California classic and an Oklahoma onion burger so good it'll make you cry. Pull up a chair for fantastic finds in a New York dive, a high-end eatery and even a bowling alley. Plus, meet the people who've changed the history of the humble hamburger.
Bobby and Sophie Flay take a walk through the picturesque West Village and head to Bobby's pizza pick, Joe's Pizza, for a classic New York slice. From there, they hit up one of Bobby's favorite gelato spots, Grom, and stroll through the neighborhood to check out the many specialty food shops. Then it's time to head to Sophie's pizza place of choice, Emily, to devour some Detroit-style pies.
Join Warren Brown as he visits confectionary artists who design with chocolate and sugar. In the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, watch pastry chef Tammy Alana create glass-like sugar bowls that hold extraordinary desserts. John Down of Christopher Norman Chocolates in New York creates modern art with veggie-tinted chocolate and Ruth Seidler of JollyBe Bakery brings fine painting to fondant cakes as she replicates a kimono.