Top Chef, Week 4, Season 4

The judge of the quickfire challenge this week was Chef Daniel Boulud. His challege to the contestants was to make a "beautiful vegetable plate" that was technical and classical. Chef Boulud announced that both Richard and Ryan had worked with him at his restaruant as employees but indicated he would not show any favoritism to them. Lisa said this type of cooking is not in her style, Zoi said she is not classically trained but she considered doing a shaved asparagus salad. Lisa did poached egg and zucchine, Dale concentrated on daikon maronated avocado which the judge later commented was impressive. Richard did raddish blanched mushrooms, Spike did a cucumber dish, Manuel offered blanched asparagus, and Nikki did blanched green beans. Chef Boulou said that they should have taken 5 minutes to think of a plan before jumping in to the challenge. He didn't like Nikki's green beans, or Lisas poached egg, and he did not like Manuel's asparagus. His favorites were Zoi's poached eggs, Dale's daikon marinated in tobanjan tournee of avocado and cucumer (yes, I looked that up; no I didn't remember it; or might I add know what it is) and Richard's mushrooms but the winner was Dale (thought I should know the actual dish since he was the quickfire challenge winner) who got immunity for the elimination challenge.