Top Chef Season 1 quotes

[of working with Stephen and Miguel] I got put on the team with the big thinker and the no thinker.

[to Tiffani] I'm not your bitch, bitch!

Tom Colicchio

This is going to sound harsh; I've had better from a take-out place in New York.

The salmon was USELESS! ...I was all of a sudden in a bad convention – it might as well have been boiled chicken.

I needed to talk to some of the members of the hotel, and making sure that the EXECUTION – the foremost important part of this whole entire event – was intact.

A chef's responsibility is to delegate. He is a leader, he is a manager in the kitchen; no one took that role. No one, except for myself.

This wedding cake had no potential whatsoever. I did not want to attach my name – even if I were to help – because, you know, mediocrity is not my game and I just didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Harold

Stephen definitely deserved to go home. I could have backed him up, but he called Lee Anne out. There was no way I was gonna let Lee Anne go out like that.

Harold

Who caters a wedding out of a Supermarket?! That's unheard of. That's ridiculous! You have specialty purveyors that you go to... that specialize.

Harold

[about the wedding cake] It's why God created Betty Crocker.

Now that my role in this competition has finally come to an end I'm going to be a restaurateur, and that is my goal in life. I will probably influence the industry and raise the bar to a level of excellence that I don't think has been achieved yet to date in this country.

Harold

When I saw the truffles in with the wine, I thought, "This is why I got involved in this competition. This is why I'm here."

Tiffani

Dave's food is never really all that refined.

Tiffani

My food is so great, and I don't get the sense that – unless something drastic happens – I'm going home.

I'm not needing to lick my plate.. and that makes me very sad.