Antonia Lofaso and Michael Symon

Two Iron Chefs walked into Bobby's kitchen on a tag-team episode and walked back out with the round. Antonia Lofaso came up through Wolfgang Puck at Spago and now runs Black Market Liquor Bar in Studio City and Scopa Italian Roots in Venice. Michael Symon has the Cleveland accent, the James Beard medal, the Iron Chef America belt, and an opinion about pork shoulder that he is not afraid to share.

The judges had two Iron Chefs cooking against one. The judges had a chef who built his career on grilling against two chefs who built theirs on, respectively, Italian technique and Eastern European fat. Bobby's home court advantage was the home court. It was not enough.