Chris Arellanes was raised in a Buddhist monastery and cooked his way through Michelin-level kitchens before founding Addicted Hospitality, a restaurant consultancy. He challenged Bobby with his late grandmother's chicken cacciatore — a dish he says his whole life had been leading up to.
Both men plated cacciatore over polenta. Chris went creamy with milk; Bobby went toasted with water, then panicked at plating and stole Chris's chicken-skin garnish idea. None of it mattered next to the garlic: Bobby loaded the dish with so much raw garlic that judge Frank Prisinzano told him, mid-tasting, "you can't fly off the handle like this."