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Clips from Top Chef - Restaurant Wars (S19E19)

"You've already won some money, right Nick?"
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"Yeah, I'm the one with the bread."
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"Yeah, we call him The Baker."
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"Well, let's bake some more bread, guys."
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"Good luck, chefs. We'll see you tomorrow."
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"Have fun."
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"Oh, big moment here."
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"I'm excited to work with y'all."
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"Do we want to work concept down?"
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"We got three real strong South cooks."
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"I want to work around you guys."
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"I can do front of house and do the first course."
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"I've studied Restaurant Wars quite a bit."
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"Dealing with the front of house has sent home"
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"a lot of excellent chefs in the past."
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"High risk but I'm in it to win it."
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"We all have really strong mothers."
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"So I think with the Southern theme"
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"it'd be cool if we named our restaurant Matriarch."
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"Okay."
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"-Matriarch without the H. -I like it."
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"Think it also as Matriarc will look good if"
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"she's kind of in command of the kitchen."
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"-Know what I mean? -Yeah. Yeah, exactly."
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"-If you feel good about that. -Yeah, yeah."
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"I do have an idea if I can just start off."
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"-What is it? -Southeast Asian."
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"Oh, you wanna do South East Asian."
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"I do. And we could call it No Name but N-E-M,"
Top Chef
"like Nem sausage."
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"Oh, I like."
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"You're going to be a rock star if we do that."
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"I would love that."
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"Evelyn's a really strong personality."
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"-Yeah. -I'm totally happy to help out"
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"with that front of house thing if you guys want."
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"She's just naturally going to be our leader in this"
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"so I want to play to her strength."
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"You know, I'm not familiar with Southeast Asian."
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"But you're familiar with bold flavors, right?"
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"Yeah."
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"I think if there's one dish that's not,"
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"I think that's okay as well."
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"It has to be all or none, man."
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"Mm. Okay."
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"I never worked at an Asian restaurant,"
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"never made specific Southeast Asian cuisine."
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"My specialty in cooking is fish."
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"I worked at Le Bernardin for two years."
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"I've been seriously missing cooking fish."
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"We're in Houston. We haven't done like a gulf thing,"
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"so I think maybe highlight seafood."
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"-I really want to highlight-- -Seafood, right?"
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"We'll be able to execute this."
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"100% we should do taster menu"
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"just because we don't know"
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"what the experience of the servers are like."
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"Maybe the first course is an array of snacks with bread."
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"-What do you guys think? -As long as it feels like you."
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"It's still gonna feel like me."
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"Well, I would like to do dessert."
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"Yeah. Yeah, you've got a solid carrot cake."
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"I was just gonna say I have a raw beef course in mind."
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"And then I was thinking green gumbo was pretty veg-heavy."
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"Yeah, so I have my mind set on a oxtail marmalade"
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"but we need seafood in here too."
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"Maybe do some cured salmon. Or..."
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"Some kind of smoked catfish pâté or something--"
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"Yeah, yeah, exactly."
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"And also serve four to six courses."
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"-Family style. -Family Style?"
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"Is so much easier to execute."
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"Watching the show I just know that that was one thing"
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"that really messed them up was because they did that."
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"It was family style but not cohesive."
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"Some dishes didn't even make sense."
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"I'd rather do it one plate at a time so you can"
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"really showcase our individual skills."
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"But I'm the only one that has concerns."
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"Everybody seems very confident with it,"
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"so that makes me confident."
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"I would like to do a pani puri, like a--"
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"-Sure-- -First bite."
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"I'm totally into that."
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"I was actually thinking of some spring rolls"
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"but it's like, a kind of like, crudité."
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"It's called No Nem."
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"Like we could end the last savory with pork meatballs,"
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"like, literally made from Nem."
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"A-ha, so funny. [laughs]"
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"Okay, I like it."
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"I was going to make, like, a smoked fish bone sauce."
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"But what if we do it with the curry?"
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"I mean, yeah--"
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"-You're the curry master. -I can make a curry."
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"-I can do this. -Yeah."
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"I feel like it will really free up your time"
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"depending on what you go with."
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"Then we'll go into a fish course,"
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"And then this carrot cake situation."
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"We'll be done. -Mm-hm."
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"This concept represents what Southern food"
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"could be: It should feel like one voice and not,"
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"you know, four chefs who decided to play restaurant."
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"Team, let's go pick out some tables and chairs."
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"[upbeat music]"
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"That is my favorite I will say."
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"In quantities, are we looking around 56?"
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"-NICK: What do you think? -AHSLEIGH: I'm cool with it."
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"This is not only a woman led kitchen"
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"but the name is Matriarc,"
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"so there needs to be some feminine touches."
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"On the napkin. What you think?"
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"ASHLEIGH: Off-white."
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"All I know is restaurants, but in Asheville, North Carolina"
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"people don't typically come to my city to eat."
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"Even though I've been on the James Beard list"
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"I was getting comments in my dining room"
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"that it was too spicy and I started to feel"
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"like my food was unapproachable."
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