Throwdown! with Bobby Flay is a Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

 television program

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

 in which celebrity chef Bobby Flay

Bobby Flay

Robert William "Bobby" Flay is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur and reality television personality. He is the owner and executive chef of 12 restaurants: Mesa Grill in Las Vegas, New York City, and the Bahamas ; Bar Americain in New York City and Uncasville, Connecticut; Bobby Flay Steak...

 challenges cooks renowned for a specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish.

At the beginning of each show, Flay receives – via bicycle messenger

Bicycle messenger

Bicycle messengers are people who work for courier companies carrying and delivering items by bicycle. Bicycle messengers are most often found in the central business districts of metropolitan areas...

 – a package detailing the chef he is to compete against as well as the dish. Examples of opponents include a skilled chili maker or a famous wedding cake designer. After practicing and preparing the item in question, Flay shows up for a surprise competition (or "Throwdown"). During the competition, both chefs prepare their particular version of the dish, and both are then evaluated by local judges to determine a winner.

Format

Each show includes a mini-biography about the chef who is to be challenged, shown before the challenge takes place. The content for the biography is actually collected as part of an elaborate ruse

Deception

Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, bad faith, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth . Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment...

 or setup, where the chef or cook is told that they are going to be featured on a fictitious Food Network show. As part of the show, the featured chef (and their associated restaurant, if any) hosts a small party, which is then unexpectedly "crashed" by Bobby Flay. Upon Flay's arrival, he reveals the true nature of the show, and the "Throwdown" is initiated.

In the Food Network's test kitchen, Flay and his two sous-chefs (Stephanie Banyas and Miriam Garron) experiment and prepare the particular dish, often opting for a variant of the dish.

When Flay makes his appearance at a rival's event, he is usually greeted with surprise and confusion, although there has been one occasion where the challenged chef figured out that Flay would be appearing for a throwdown and ended up challenging him. Flay's comment was that he "had been set up." However, the rival usually quickly gets over the initial shock and warms up to the challenge. After the dishes are prepared, the two chefs taste each other's creations and are usually quite complimentary towards one another. Finally, the dishes are evaluated by one or more connoisseurs or notable veterans in that field (via a blind taste test

Blind taste test

In marketing, a blind taste test is often used as a tool for companies to compare their brand to another brand. For example, the Pepsi Challenge is a famous taste test that has been run by Pepsi since 1975 as a method to show their superiority to Coca-Cola. Taste tests are also a tool sometimes...

), with the winner then being announced.

The format of the show does not edit or disguise Flay's lack of knowledge of technique regarding cooking for the challenge. He often makes use of New York City-area experts to teach him basic techniques. In other instances, he acknowledges the traditional approach to the dish but then explains how he will make it more modern or more his own style of cooking with various added ingredients.

Flay's record is 32 wins, 1 tie, and 68 losses. Flay has had great success with cake challenges, winning throwdowns for cheesecake and cupcakes in season 2, coconut cake and red velvet cake

Red velvet cake

A red velvet cake is a cake with a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It is usually prepared as a layer cake with either a vanilla, or chocolate flavor, topped with a creamy white icing or a cookie dough filling...

 in season 5, and German chocolate cake

German chocolate cake

In US German chocolate cake, originally known as German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. It owes its name to American Sam German, who developed a brand of dark baking chocolate used for the cake. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally...

 in season 6. Flay's only cake throwdown losses were a wedding cake in season 1, Bûche de Noël

Bûche de Noël

Bûche de Noël is a traditional dessert served near Christmas in France, Belgium, Canada, Lebanon, Vietnam, and several other francophone countries and former French colonies...

 in season 5, and Carrot cake

Carrot cake

Carrot cake is a cake which consists of grated carrots mixed with batter. The carrot softens in the cooking process, and the cake usually has a soft, dense texture...

 and Pineapple Upside-down cake

Upside-down cake

An upside-down cake is a cake usually made in a pan with a curved bottom. Once cooked, turned over and allowed to set, the cake is eaten upside-down...

 in season 8.

In Popular Culture

During season 3 of the Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

 sitcom iCarly

ICarly

iCarly is an American sitcom that focuses on a girl named Carly Shay who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. The series was created by Dan Schneider, who also serves as executive producer. It stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly, Jennette McCurdy as Sam, Nathan...

, a show called "Food Fight" on the fictional "Food TV" channel parodied "Throwdown!" with faux celebrity chef/host Ricky Flame (perhaps a play on Bobby Flay's name) challenging Spencer Shay to a cook-off over his spaghetti tacos. Following the format of "Throwdown!", Carly and her friends were led to believe they were being featured on a "Food TV" program when Ricky Flame surprised them with the throwdown.

Season 1

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0101	Chowder Chowder In North America Chowder is a generic name for a wide variety of seafood or vegetable stews and thickened soups, often with milk or cream. Some varieties are traditionally thickened with crushed ship biscuit instead of flour, which is more usual...	Benjamin Sargent Benjamin Sargent Benjamin F. W. Sargent the “Brooklyn Chowder Surfer” is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality and artist...	Hurricane Hopeful Surf Bar	Brooklyn, New York	Bobby Flay
2	BT0102	Wedding cake	Michelle Doll	Michelle Doll Cakes	Brooklyn, New York	Michelle Doll
3	BT0103	Chili	Cindy Reed Wilkins	Cin Chili & Company	Houston, Texas	Tie
4	BT0104	Jerk chicken Jamaican jerk spice Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a very hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. Jerk seasoning is traditionally applied to pork and chicken. Modern recipes also apply jerk spice mixes to fish, shrimp, shellfish, beef, sausage,...	Angela Shelf Medearis		Austin, Texas Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...	Angela Shelf Medearis
5	BT0105	Steak	Eric Dominijanni		Twentynine Palms, California Twentynine Palms, California Twentynine Palms is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It was previously called Twenty-Nine Palms...	Eric Dominijanni
6	BT0106	Breakfast	Lynn Winter	Lynn's Paradise Cafe Lynn's Paradise Cafe Lynn's Paradise Cafe is a restaurant in the The Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. It has been open since 1991, originally in the Crescent Hill neighborhood, until it moved into a former grocery store in The Highlands...	Louisville, Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...	Lynn Winter
7	BT0107	Burgers	Susan Mello		Queens, New York	Bobby Flay
8	BT0108	Jambalaya Jambalaya Jambalaya is a Louisiana Creole dish of Spanish and French influence. -Jambalaya varieties:Jambalaya is traditionally made in three parts, with meats and vegetables, and is completed by adding stock and rice. It is also a close cousin to the saffron colored paella found in Spanish culture...	Emile Stieffel		New Orleans, Louisiana	Emile Stieffel
9	BT0109	Cocktails	Tobin Ellis		Las Vegas, Nevada	Bobby Flay
10	BT0110	Doughnuts	Mark Israel	Doughnut Plant	New York City, New York	Mark Israel
11	BT0111	Cheesesteak Cheesesteak A cheesesteak, also known as a Philadelphia cheesesteak, Philly cheesesteak, cheese steak, or steak and cheese, is a sandwich made from thinly-sliced pieces of steak and melted cheese in a long roll...	Tony Luke	Tony Luke's	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Tony Luke
12	BT0112	Ice cream	Jeff Sommers	Izzy's Ice Cream	Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...	Jeff Sommers
13	BT0113	Fried chicken	Jasper Alexander	Hattie's Restaurant	Saratoga Springs, New York Saratoga Springs, New York Saratoga Springs, also known as simply Saratoga, is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 26,586 at the 2010 census. The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area. While the word "Saratoga" is known to be a corruption of a Native American name, ...	Jasper Alexander
14	BT0114	Barbecue Barbecue Barbecue or barbeque , used chiefly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia is a method and apparatus for cooking meat, poultry and occasionally fish with the heat and hot smoke of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of...	Butch Lupinetti		Mount Laurel, New Jersey	Butch Lupinetti
15	BT0115	Pizza	Giorgio Giove	Brother's Pizzeria	Staten Island, New York	Giorgio Giove

Season 2

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0201	Chocolate	Fritz Knipschildt	Chocopologie / Knipschildt Chocolatier	Norwalk, Connecticut Norwalk, Connecticut Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...	Fritz Knipschildt
2	BT0202	Chicken cacciatore	Keith Young		New York City, New York	Keith Young
3	BT0203	Meatloaf	Jack and Rocco Collucci	Collucci Brother's Diner	Hyannis, Massachusetts Hyannis, Massachusetts Hyannis is the largest of seven villages in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Also it is the commercial and transportation hub of Cape Cod and was designated an urban area as a result of the 1990 census. Because of this, many refer to Hyannis as the "Capital of the Cape"...	Jack and Rocco Collucci
4	BT0204	Macaroni and cheese	Delilah Winder	Delilah's	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Bobby Flay
5	BT0205	Fish and chips	Mat Arnfield	A Salt and Battery	New York City, New York	Mat Arnfield
6	BT0206	Cheesecake Cheesecake Cheesecake is a dessert consisting of a topping made of soft, fresh cheese, usually on a crust or base made from biscuit , pastry or sponge cake. They may be baked or unbaked...	Alan Rosen	Junior's Junior's Junior's is a restaurant at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn . The restaurant also has an outlet inside Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, one in the Times Square area, and one in the hotel lobby of MGM Grand at Foxwoods in...	Brooklyn, New York	Bobby Flay
7	BT0207	Cuban Cuban cuisine Cuban cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, African and Caribbean cuisines. Cuban recipes share spices and techniques with Spanish and African cooking, with some Caribbean influence in spice and flavor. This results in a unique, interesting and flavorful blend of the several different cultural influences...  roast pork Pork Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig , which is eaten in many countries. It is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BC....	Roberto Guerra			Roberto Guerra
8	BT0208	Spare ribs Spare ribs Spare ribs are a variety of pork ribs and beef ribs, cooked and eaten in various cuisines around the world. They are the most inexpensive cut of pork and beef ribs. They are a long cut from the lower portion of the pig or cattle, specifically the belly and breastbone, behind the shoulder, and...	Buz Grossberg	Buz and Ned's	Richmond, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...	Buz Grossberg
9	BT0209	Cupcakes	Terri Wahl	Auntie Em's Kitchen	Eagle Rock, California	Bobby Flay
10	BT0210	Hot dogs	Richard, Gloria, and Beverly Pink	Pink's Hot Dogs Pink's Hot Dogs Pink's Hot Dogs is a landmark hot dog restaurant in the Hollywood district of the city of Los Angeles.- History :Pink's was founded by Paul and Betty Pink in 1939 as a pushcart near the corner of La Brea and Melrose. The Great Depression was still having an impact on the country, and money was scarce...	Hollywood, California	Bobby Flay
11	BT0211	Buffalo wings Buffalo wings A Buffalo wing, hot wing or wing is a chicken wing section that is traditionally fried unbreaded and then coated in sauce...	Drew Cerza	The Anchor Bar	Buffalo, New York Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...	Drew Cerza
12	BT0212	Sticky bun Sticky bun Sticky buns are a dessert or breakfast pastry that generally consist of rolled pieces of leavened dough — sometimes containing brown sugar or cinnamon — which are then compressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to the size of the baking pan... s	Joanne Chang	Flour Bakery	Boston, Massachusetts	Joanne Chang
13	BT0213	Hot browns Hot Brown A Hot Brown Sandwich is a hot sandwich originally created at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, by Fred K. Schmidt in 1926. It is a variation of traditional Welsh rarebit and was one of two signature sandwiches created by chefs at the Brown Hotel shortly after its founding in 1923...	Joe and John Castro	Brown Hotel	Louisville, Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...	Joe and John Castro

Season 3

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0301	Crepe Crêpe A crêpe or crepe , is a type of very thin pancake, usually made from wheat flour or buckwheat flour . The word is of French origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning "curled". While crêpes originate from Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is widespread in France... s	Nessa Higgins & Andrea Day Boykin	Flip Happy Crepes	Austin, Texas Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...	Nessa Higgins & Andrea Day Boykin
2	BT0302	Puffy tacos	Diana Barrios-Trevino	La Hacienda/Los Barrios	San Antonio, Texas San Antonio, Texas San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...	Diana Barrios-Trevino
3	BT0303	Jerk ribeye Jamaican jerk spice Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a very hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. Jerk seasoning is traditionally applied to pork and chicken. Modern recipes also apply jerk spice mixes to fish, shrimp, shellfish, beef, sausage,...	Nigel Spence	Ripe Kitchen and Bar	Mount Vernon, New York Mount Vernon, New York Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It lies on the border of the New York City borough of The Bronx.-Overview:...	Nigel Spence
4	BT0304	Chicken fried steak Chicken fried steak Chicken fried steak is a dish consisting of a piece of steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is associated with Texas cuisine... 1	Paula Deen Paula Deen Paula Deen American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality.Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates...	Uncle Bubba's Oyster House	Savannah, Georgia Savannah, Georgia Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...	Paula Deen
5	BT0305	Pie	Janet LaPosta & Ally Taylor	Pie Moms	Rockland, Maine Rockland, Maine Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,297. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination...	Bobby Flay
6	BT0306	Crab cake Crab cake A crab cake is an American dish composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs, yellow onions, and seasonings. Occasionally other ingredients such as red or green peppers or pink radishes are added, at which point the cake is then sautéed, baked,...	Mitch Weiss	The Lobster Dock	Boothbay Harbor, Maine	Bobby Flay
7	BT0307	Muffuletta Muffuletta The muffuletta is a type of round Sicilian sesame bread, as well as a submarine sandwich made with that bread that originated from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Bread:...	Mike and Jack Serio2	Serio's Deli	New Orleans, Louisiana	Mike and Jack Serio
8	BT0308	Blondies Blondie (cookie) A blondie is a rich, sweet dessert bar. They are made from flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, and vanilla. Chocolate chip blondies may contain white or dark chocolate chips, but the dominant flavor of a blondie is brown sugar, not chocolate. They may also contain walnuts or pecans...	Tom Finney and Mark Ballard	Sugardaddy's Sumptuous Sweeties	Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...	Tom Finney and Mark Ballard
9	BT0309	Meatballs	Mike Maroni	Maroni Cuisine	Northport, New York Northport, New York Northport is a village in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 7,606. Students attend the Northport-East Northport Union Free School District....	Mike Maroni
10	BT0310	Ice cream sundae	Julia Reynolds	Ice Cream Man	Greenwich, New York Greenwich (town), New York Greenwich is a town in the southwest part of Washington County, New York, United States. The town is located on the west border of the county. The population was 4,896 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area...	Bobby Flay
11	BT0311	Lasagna	Mark Bove	Bove's Café	Burlington, Vermont Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....	Bobby Flay
12	BT0312	Turkey and dressing	Renee Ferguson		Geneva, Illinois Geneva, Illinois Geneva is the county seat of Kane County, Illinois. It is located on the western fringe of the Chicago suburbs. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 26,652. Geneva is part of a tri-city area, along with St. Charles and Batavia...	Bobby Flay
13	BT0313	Gingerbread Gingerbread Gingerbread is a term used to describe a variety of sweet food products, which can range from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger biscuit. What they have in common are the predominant flavors of ginger and a tendency to use honey or molasses rather than just sugar...	Johanna Rosson		Macomb, Illinois Macomb, Illinois Macomb is a city in and the county seat of McDonough County, Illinois, United States. It is situated in western Illinois southwest of Galesburg. The population was 18,588 at the 2000 census. Macomb is the home of Western Illinois University.- Geography :...	Johanna Rosson

: Highlights aired on Paula's Party

Paula's Party

Paula's Party is a show on the Food Network hosted by Paula Deen. Unlike her other show on the Food Network, Paula's Home Cooking, Paula's Party was originally taped in front of a small audience at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House in Savannah, Georgia, and Deen herself frequently interacts with members...

: Jack Serio died soon after this episode aired. A remembrance graphic appeared at the end of the program.

Season 4

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0401	Biscuits and jam	Carol Fay	Loveless Cafe Loveless Cafe The Loveless Cafe is in southwest Nashville, Tennessee on Highway 100, just east of the northern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway. It is known for its Southern cooking, especially for its biscuits, country ham, and red-eye gravy...	Nashville, Tennessee	Bobby Flay
2	BT0402	Ice pop Ice pop An ice pop, also referred to in the United States as a popsicle, and in the United Kingdom as an ice lolly, lolly ice or ice lollipop, is a frozen, water-based dessert. It is made by freezing flavored liquid around a stick. Often, the juice is colored artificially... s	Irma and Norma Paz	Las Paletas	Nashville, Tennessee	Irma and Norma Paz
3	BT0403	Chocolate chip cookies	Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald	Levain Bakery	New York	Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald
4	BT0404	Eggplant parmesan	David Greco	Mike's Deli	Bronx, New York	David Greco
5	BT0405	Chicken and waffles Chicken and waffles Chicken and waffles is a dish combining waffles, a breakfast food, with fried chicken. It is served in certain specialty restaurants in the United States....	Melba Wilson	Melba's	Harlem, New York	Melba Wilson
6	BT0406	Pretzels	The Pretzel Boys	The Pretzel Boys	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Bobby Flay
7	BT0407	Arroz con pollo Arroz con pollo Arroz con pollo is a traditional dish of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic....	Jorge Ayala	La Fonda Boricua	New York	Jorge Ayala
8	BT0408	Grilled cheese sandwich	The Pop Shop	The Pop Shop	Collingswood, New Jersey Collingswood, New Jersey Collingswood is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 13,926....	Bobby Flay
9	BT0409	Dumplings Jiaozi Jiǎozi 餃子 or 饺子 , bánh bột luộc , gyōza , Mo:Mo: or Momocha म:म: or ममचा , or pot sticker is a Chinese dumpling widely spread to Japan, Eastern and Western Asia.Jiaozi typically consist of a ground meat and/or vegetable filling wrapped into...	Sohui Kim	The Good Fork	Red Hook, New York Red Hook, New York Red Hook is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was reported to be 11,319 during the 2010 census. The name is supposedly derived from the red foliage on trees on a small strip of land on the Hudson River. The town contains two villages; the village of Red Hook and the...	Sohui Kim
10	BT0410	Pulled pork Pulled pork Pulled pork is a form of barbecue in which pork, usually shoulder cut or mixed cuts, is cooked using a low-heat, long-cook method. With these extended times at low temperatures, the meat becomes tender enough that its weakened connective tissue allows the meat to be "pulled", or easily broken into...	Lee Ann Whippen	Wood Chicks BBQ	Chesapeake, Virginia Chesapeake, Virginia As of the census of 2000, there were 199,184 people, 69,900 households, and 54,172 families residing in the city. The population density was 584.6 people per square mile . There were 72,672 housing units at an average density of 213.3 per square mile...	Lee Ann Whippen
11	BT0411	Arepa Arepa An arepa is a dish made of ground corn dough or cooked flour, popular in Colombia, Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. It is similar in shape to the Salvadoran pupusa... s	Maribel and Aristides Barrios	Caracas Arepas Bar	Manhattan, New York	Maribel and Aristides Barrios
12	BT04121	Grilled pork tenderloin vegetable skewers grilled whole fish cocktails	Butch Lupinetti Delilah Winder Nigel Spence Tobin Ellis		Miami, Florida	Bobby Flay

: A special "Rematch on the Grill" episode featuring 3 former Throwdown contestants. Ellis showed up at the Throwdown itself to challenge Flay separately.

Season 5

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0501	Coconut cake	Robert Carter	Peninsula Grill	Charleston, South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...	Bobby Flay
2	BT0502	Moules frites Mussel The common name mussel is used for members of several families of clams or bivalvia mollusca, from saltwater and freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval.The...	Teddy Folkman	Granville Moore	Washington, D.C.	Teddy Folkman
3	BT0503	Seafood gumbo Gumbo Gumbo is a stew or soup that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. It consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and the vegetable holy trinity of celery, bell peppers, and onions...	Poppy Tooker		New Orleans, Louisiana	Poppy Tooker
4	BT0504	Paella Paella Paella is a Valencian rice dish that originated in its modern form in the mid-19th century near lake Albufera, a lagoon in Valencia, on the east coast of Spain. Many non-Spaniards view paella as Spain's national dish, but most Spaniards consider it to be a regional Valencian dish...	Gerard Nebesky		Occidental, California Occidental, California Occidental is a census-designated place in Sonoma County, California, United States. The population was 1,115 at the 2010 census, down from 1,272 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Occidental is located at...	Gerard Nebesky
5	BT0505	Chile relleno Chile relleno The chile relleno, literally "stuffed chile," is a dish of Mexican cuisine that originated in the city of Puebla. It consists of a roasted fresh poblano pepper , sometimes substituted with non-traditional Hatch green chile, Anaheim, pasilla or even jalapeño chili pepper...	Ramiro Arvizu and Jaime Martin del Campo	La Casita Mexicana	Los Angeles, California	Ramiro Arvizu and Jaime Martin del Campo
6	BT0507	Brown bag apple pie	Dan Scheel and John Bauer	The Elegant Farmer	Mukwonago, Wisconsin Mukwonago, Wisconsin -Geography:Mukwonago is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.8 square miles , of which, 4.7 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it is water.It is situated at the southwestern flank of the sprawling Vernon...	Dan Scheel and John Bauer
7	BT0506	Red velvet cake Red velvet cake A red velvet cake is a cake with a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It is usually prepared as a layer cake with either a vanilla, or chocolate flavor, topped with a creamy white icing or a cookie dough filling...	Raven Dennis	Cakeman Raven Confectionery Cake Man Raven Raven Patrick De'Sean Dennis III, better known by the alias Cake Man Raven, is an American baker and owner of the Cake Man Raven Confectionary bakery in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.-Biography:...	Brooklyn, New York	Bobby Flay
8	BT0513	Bûche de Noël Bûche de Noël Bûche de Noël is a traditional dessert served near Christmas in France, Belgium, Canada, Lebanon, Vietnam, and several other francophone countries and former French colonies...	François Payard François Payard François Payard is a pastry chef and cookbook author.Born in Nice, chef François Payard grew up spending much of his time in his grandfather’s pastry shop, Au Nid des Friandises, on the Riviera....	Payard	New York	François Payard
9	BT0508H	Deep-dish pizza	Marc Malnati	Lou Malnati's Pizzeria Lou Malnati's Pizzeria Lou Malnati's Pizzeria is an American family-owned Chicago-style pizza restaurant chain headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It was founded by the son of Rudy Malnati, who was instrumental in developing the recipe for Chicago-style pizza, and it has become one of the Chicago area's best-known...	Chicago, Illinois	Marc Malnati
10	BT0509H	Falafel Falafel Falafel is a deep-fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas and/or fava beans. Falafel is usually served in a pita, which acts as a pocket, or wrapped in a flatbread known as lafa. The falafel balls are topped with salads, pickled vegetables, hot sauce, and drizzled with tahini-based sauces...	Einat Admony	Taim Falafel and Smoothie	New York	Bobby Flay
11	BT0510H	Chocolate bread pudding Bread pudding Bread pudding is a bread-based dessert popular in many countries' cuisine, including that of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Malta, Argentina, Louisiana Creole, and the southern United States...	Jerome Chang and Chris Chen	Dessert Truck	New York	Jerome Chang and Chris Chen
12	BT0512H	Cioppino Cioppino Cioppino is a fish stew originating in San Francisco. Despite being considered an Italian dish, it is unknown in Italy, and it is only slightly comparable with various regional fish soups and stews of Italian cuisine...	Phil DiGirolamo	Phil's Fish Market	Moss Landing, California Moss Landing, California Moss Landing is a census-designated place in Monterey County, California, United States. Moss Landing is located on the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad north-northeast of Monterey, at an elevation of 10 feet . As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 204, down from 300 at the 2000...	Phil DiGirolamo
13	BT0511H	Sushi	Philip Yi	Sushi Central	Los Angeles, California	Philip Yi

Season 6

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0601H	Pad Thai Pad Thai Pad Thai or Phat Thai is a dish of stir-fried rice noodles with eggs, fish sauce , tamarind juice, red chilli pepper, plus any combination of bean sprouts, shrimp, chicken, or tofu, garnished with crushed peanuts, coriander and lime, the juice of which can be added along with Thai condiments Pad...	Nongkran Daks	Thai Basil	Chantilly, Virginia Chantilly, Virginia Chantilly is an unincorporated community located in western Fairfax County and southeastern Loudoun County of Northern Virginia. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place , the community population was 23,039 as of the 2010 census -- down from 41,041 in 2000, due to the...	Nongkran Daks
2	BT0602H	Ravioli	Robert Durso Sr. & Robert Durso II	Durso's Pasta & Ravioli Company	Flushing, New York	Bobby Flay
3	BT0603H	Chicken pot pie Pot pie A pot pie is a type of baked savory pie with a bottom and top completely encased by flaky crusts and baked inside a pie tin to support its shape....	Sandy Pollock & Crystal Cook	Casserole Queens	Austin, Texas	Bobby Flay
4	BT0604H	Blueberry pancakes	Neil Kleinberg and DeDe Lahman	Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant is an American bakery and restaurant. It is located at 4 Clinton Street , on the Lower East Side in New York City....	New York	Bobby Flay
5	BT0605H	Chicken matzoh ball soup	Jeff Nathan	Abigael's	New York	Jeff Nathan
6	BT0606H	Shrimp and grits Lowcountry cuisine Lowcountry cuisine is the cooking traditionally associated with the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Georgia coast. While it shares features with Southern cooking, its geography, economics, physics, demographics, and culture pushed its culinary identity in a different direction from regions above...	Joe Barnett		Washington, Georgia Washington, Georgia Washington is a city in Wilkes County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,295 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Wilkes County...	Joe Barnett
7	BT0607H	North Carolina ribs and baked beans Pork ribs Pork ribs are a cut of pork popular in North American and Asian cuisines. The ribcage of a domestic pig, meat and bones together, is cut into usable pieces, prepared by smoking, grilling, or baking – usually with a sauce, often barbecue – and then served....	Ed Mitchell	The Pit	Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...	Ed Mitchell
8	BT0608	German chocolate cake German chocolate cake In US German chocolate cake, originally known as German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. It owes its name to American Sam German, who developed a brand of dark baking chocolate used for the cake. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally...	Aliyyah Smith	Make My Cake	Harlem, New York	Bobby Flay
9	BT0609H	Fried fish escovitch Escabeche Escabeche is a typical Mediterranean cuisine which refers to both a dish of poached or fried fish that is marinated in an acidic mixture before serving, and to the marinade itself...	Sheron Barnes	Mo Bay Restaurant	Harlem, New York	Sheron Barnes
10	BT0610H	Country Captain Country Captain Country Captain is a dish which, in its basic form, is a mild stew made with browned chicken pieces, onions, and curry powder. Golden raisins and almonds are usually added. Many versions also call for tomatoes, garlic, and bell peppers...	Lee Bros		Charleston, South Carolina	Lee Brothers
11	BT0611H	Fish tacos	Cesar Gonzales	Mama Testa Taqueria	San Diego, California	Cesar Gonzales
12	BT0612H	Green chile burger Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...	Bobby Olguin	Manny's Buckhorn Tavern	San Antonio, New Mexico San Antonio, New Mexico San Antonio is an unincorporated community in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States, roughly in the center of the state. The entire population of the county is around 18,000; the population of San Antonio is hard to pin down because the area is somewhat ill-defined.San Antonio is nowadays...	Bobby Olguin
13	BT0613H	Sloppy Joes	Andrew and John Schnipper	Schnipper's Quality Kitchen	New York	Bobby Flay

Season 7

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0701H	Fajitas	Father Leo Patalinghug		Emmitsburg, Maryland Emmitsburg, Maryland -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,290 people, 811 households, and 553 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,992.9 people per square mile . There were 862 housing units at an average density of 750.2 per square mile...	Father Leo Patalinghug
2	BT0702H	Barbecue chicken	Brad Turner		Fort Lee, Virginia Fort Lee, Virginia Fort Lee is a census-designated place in Prince George County, Virginia, United States. The population was 7,269 at the 2000 census.Fort Lee is a United States Army post and headquarters of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command / Sustainment Center of Excellence , the U.S. Army Quartermaster...	Bobby Flay
3	BT0703H	Lobster club sandwich Club sandwich A club sandwich, also called a clubhouse sandwich or double-decker, is a sandwich with two layers of fillings between 3 slices of toasted bread. It is often cut into quarters and held together by hors d'œuvre sticks....	Lynn Archer	The Brass Compass Cafe	Rockland, Maine Rockland, Maine Rockland is a city in Knox County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,297. It is the county seat of Knox County. The city is a popular tourist destination...	Lynn Archer
4	BT0705H	Pumpkin pie	Michele Albano	Michele's Pies	Norwalk, Connecticut Norwalk, Connecticut Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...	Bobby Flay
5	BT0704H	Feast of the Seven Fishes Feast of the seven fishes The Feast of the Seven Fishes , celebrated on Christmas Eve, also known as The Vigil , is believed to have originated in Southern Italy and is not a known tradition in many parts of Italy. Today, it is a feast that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes...	The Pellegrino Family	Rao's	Las Vegas, Nevada	The Pellegrino Family
6	BT0706H	Manhattan fish chowder	John Addis	Fish Tales	Brooklyn, New York	Bobby Flay
7	BT0707H	Liege Belgian waffles	Thomas DeGeest	Wafels & Dinges Truck	New York	Thomas DeGeest
8	BT0708H	Brownies	Shawna Lidsky & Katherine Hayward	Vermont Brownie Company	South Hero, Vermont	Shawna Lidsky & Katherine Hayward
9	BT0709H	Burritos	Victor & Miguel Escobedo	Papalote Mexican Grill	San Francisco, California	Victor & Miguel Escobedo
10	BT0710H	Omelets	Misty Young	Squeeze In	Truckee, California Truckee, California Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. The population was 16,180 at the 2010 census, up from 13,864 at the 2000 census.-Name:...	Bobby Flay
11	BT0711H	Stuffed french toast	Omar Giner	La Isla Restaurant	Hoboken, New Jersey Hoboken, New Jersey Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 50,005. The city is part of the New York metropolitan area and contains Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the region...	Omar Giner
12	BT0712H	Cuban Sandwich Cuban sandwich A Cuban sandwich is a variation of a ham and cheese originally created in cafes catering to Cuban workers in Cuba and in the early Cuban immigrant communities of Florida: Key West and Ybor City, Tampa. Later on, Cuban exiles and expatriates brought it to Miami where it is also still very popular...	Nick Vazquez	Azucar Cuban Cuisine	Jersey City, New Jersey Jersey City, New Jersey Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City lies between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay across from Lower Manhattan and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay...	Nick Vazquez

Season 8

Episode	Show Number	Food	Chef	Restaurant	Location	Winner
1	BT0801H	Hot dogs	Nick Suarez	Brooklyn's Cheesiest Dog	Brooklyn, New York	Nick Suarez
2	BT0802H	Quiche Quiche Quiche is a savory, open-faced pie of vegetables, cheese, or meat in custard, baked in a pastry crust.The quiche is sometimes regarded as the savoury equivalent ofegg custard tart.- Etymology:...	Rodney Henry	Dangerously Delicious Pies	Baltimore, Maryland	Bobby Flay
3	BT0803H	Chicken Tikka Masala	Chef Marianna	Saffron	Hudson, New York Hudson, New York Hudson is a city located along the west border of Columbia County, New York, United States. The city is named after the adjacent Hudson River and ultimately after the explorer Henry Hudson.Hudson is the county seat of Columbia County...	Bobby Flay
4	BT0804H	Pineapple upside-down cake Upside-down cake An upside-down cake is a cake usually made in a pan with a curved bottom. Once cooked, turned over and allowed to set, the cake is eaten upside-down...	Marilyn and Sheila Brass	Cookbook authors	Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...	Brass Sisters
5	BT0805H	Carrot cake	Vera Stewart	Very Vera	Augusta, Georgia Augusta, Georgia Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located along the Savannah River. As of the 2010 census, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 195,844 not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the principal city of the Augusta-Richmond County...	Vera Stewart
6	BT0806H	Huevos rancheros Huevos rancheros Huevos rancheros is a classic Mexican breakfast dish popular throughout much of the Americas consisting of eggs served in the style of the traditional large mid-morning fare on poor farms....	Teresa and David Matias	Mosaic Cafe	Tucson, Arizona Tucson, Arizona Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...	Bobby Flay
7	BT0807H	Banana cream pie	Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito	Baked Bakery	Brooklyn, New York	Bobby Flay
8	BT0808H	Chicken wings	Colette Burnett	Super Wings NY	Brooklyn, New York	Colette Burnett
9	BT0809H	Chicken-fried steak Chicken fried steak Chicken fried steak is a dish consisting of a piece of steak coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is associated with Texas cuisine...	Kent Rollins	Red River Ranch Chuckwagon Catering	Texas	Kent Rolins
10	BT0810H	Whoopie pie Whoopie pie The whoopie pie is an American baked good that may be considered either a cookie, pie, or cake... s	Carol Ford and Karen Haase	Cranberry Island Kitchen	Portland, Maine Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...	Carol Ford and Karen Haase
11	BTO811H	Moussaka Moussaka Moussaka is an eggplant based dish of the Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. The best known variation outside the region is the Greek one.-Names and etymology:...	Diane Kochilas		New York	Bobby Flay
12	BT0812H	Lobster Mac and Cheese	Cal Hancock	Hancock Gourmet Lobster Company	Cundy's Harbor, Maine	Cal Hancock

External links

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