Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and often-guest (and apparent season 3 regular) Ted Allen were there to judge. At stake? $20k to charity of the winning team's choice.

All this one was missing was a cue card-reading contest between Katy Lee and Padma.

And all we really want to say is "we told you so."

Quote from your Top Chef correspondent in our last Top Chef-related piece: "Ilan, man, don't diss Harold. He did it first, and did it classier and better."

And he did it again.

The quick recap (and please excuse lack of detail; our old crutch of using the "rate the plate" feature on Bravo's site was not updated to include this special, those bastards):