Filed under:
Jamie Tran Battles for a Chance to Get Back on ‘Top Chef: Portland’ on ‘Last Chance Kitchen’
The chef behind The Black Sheep competes on
Top Chef’s digital series to get back on the show
Share this story
Jamie Tran’s competition on
Top Chef: Portlandcame to an end last week when she packed her knives after a drive-in movie challenge had her making rubbery chicken. Her loss sent her to
Last Chance Kitchen, the online show where eliminated contestants try to get back on
Top Chef through cooking challenges.
Last week, she defeated Kiki Louya in a chicken challenge using liver, skin, feet, oysters, and thighs for a perfectly composed dish made in 25 minutes. This week brought a new contestant to the challenge, Gabriel Pascuzzi, who was eliminated from the show.
David Moir/Bravo
Jamie Tran, the chef and co-owner of The Black Sheep, the Eater 38 restaurant in the southwest where Tran melds her Vietnamese upbringing with French techniques, competes on
Top Chef: Portland with a goal of winning $250,000. Tran already made her mark in Las Vegas with The Black Sheep, which won an Eater Award for Restaurant of the Year.
In Episode Five, “Meet You at the Drive-In,” Tran continues to compete on the show where so far, four chefs were eliminated.
Episode Five starts with a Quickfire Challenge giving the contestants the task of creating a dish paying tribute to the mother figure in their life using roses or rose-flavored ingredients. Tran made mama’s imperial rolls with pork, shrimp, and mushroom topped with rose salt and vinaigrette, a dish similar to one served at The Black Sheep, sans the rose.