| Genre: | Competition |
| Composer: | Robert ToTeras |
| Opentheme: | Robert ToTeras |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 10 |
| Runtime: | 44 minutes (excluding commercials) |
| Network: | Bravo |
| Company: | Magical Elves Productions |
Around the World in 80 Plates is an American reality competition television series that debuted May 9, 2012, on Bravo.[1] The series follows twelve chefs competing in a culinary race across ten countries in 44 days and is hosted by professional chefs Curtis Stone and Cat Cora.[2]
In order of elimination:[3]
| Contestant | Episode | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
| Avery | WIN | MVC | WIN | IN (-) | WIN | IN (-) | IN | MVC | IN | MVC | WINNER |
| Liz | WIN | IN | WIN | MVC | IN | WIN | IN (-) | IN | MVC | IN | |
| Nookie | IN (-) | WIN | MVC | IN | WIN | IN | WIN | IN | IN (-) | OUT | |
| John | IN | IN | IN | IN | IN (-) | MVC | MVC | IN (-) | OUT | ||
| Nicole | IN (-) | IN (-) | WIN | WIN | MVC | IN | IN | OUT | |||
| Jenna | IN | IN | WIN | WIN | IN (-) | WIN | OUT | ||||
| Nick | WIN | IN | IN | IN | WIN | OUT | |||||
| Gary | IN | WIN | IN (-) | IN | OUT | ||||||
| Chaz | MVC | WIN | IN (-) | OUT | |||||||
| Keven | WIN | WIN | OUT | ||||||||
| Sai | WIN | OUT | |||||||||
| Clara | OUT | ||||||||||
(MVC) The contestant was a member of the winning team in that episode's Take-Over Challenge and was selected as the Most Valuable Chef.
(WIN) The contestant was a member of the winning team in that episode's Take-Over Challenge.
(IN) The contestant was not a member of the winning team, but did not receive any votes for elimination.
[IN (-)] The contestant was not a member of the winning team and received at least one vote for elimination.
(OUT) The contestant was not a member of the winning team, received the most elimination votes and was eliminated.
| Premiere date | Location | Teams | Exceptional Ingredient Challenge | Take-Over Challenge | Most Valuable Chef | Eliminated | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Episode 1: London Calling | |||||||
| May 9, 2012 | London, England |
Clara, Gary, Jenna, John, Nicole, Nookie | The teams are given maps of three pubs and must visit each one offering food and drinks. The first team to finish wins.
| Each team will take over one of the pubs and create two authentic gastro-pub dishes while replicating the three dishes they ate during the pub crawl.
| Chaz | Clara | 0.79[4] |
Episode 2: Forget Paris | |||||||
| May 16, 2012 | Lyon, France |
Jenna, John, Liz, Nick, Nicole, Sai | The teams navigate through France and do several sheep-themed challenges. First, two teammates must correctly identify six sheep cheeses. Next, each team must herd four sheep into a pen without touching the animals. The final challenge is to taste wines and match them up to their ingredients.
| Each team will be taking over a restaurant, making four dishes a piece. Both teams must also craft a quenelle to be served.
| Avery | Sai | 0.64[5] |
Episode 3: Something Smells Fishy | |||||||
| May 23, 2012 | Barcelona, Spain |
Chaz, Gary, John, Keven, Nick | The teams sort and prepare three different types of seafood: monkfish, merluza, and sepia. Each type of seafood is worth a different amount of money. By the time the delivery truck arrives, whoever makes the most money wins.
| Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a three course seafood menu based on the seafood they prepared in the previous challenge.
| Nookie | Keven | 0.55[6] |
Episode 4: In and Out of Africa | |||||||
| May 30, 2012 | Marrakesh, Morocco |
Jenna, Liz, Nicole | Find the Ben Boubker spice shop within the Medina. Pour glasses of Mint Tea in the traditional Moroccan style.
| Each team will share a restaurant, each creating a tagine in addition to two other dishes.
| Liz | Chaz | 0.78[7] |
Episode 5: Tale of Two Villas | |||||||
| June 6, 2012 | Florence, Italy |
Jenna, Gary, Liz, John | In Florence, the Course starts with a scavenger hunt where the chefs get firsthand experience on the traditions of the local cuisine.
| With their new knowledge, they head to beautiful villas in the rolling hills of Tuscany to create Tuscan cuisine for the Takeover. One chef causes a disaster in the middle of the night and must confess to his fellow chefs.
| Nicole | Gary | 0.76[8] |
Episode 6: Ciao Down | |||||||
| June 13, 2012 | Bologna, Italy |
Jenna, Liz, John | The chefs shift gears and head north to Bologna where they tackle the local favorite, tortellini.
| Tempers flare between two chefs over past grievances and one of the contestants is intent on taking a teammate down.
| John | Nick | 0.70[9] |
Episode 7: Thai Breaker | |||||||
| June 20, 2012 | Chiang Mai, Thailand |
Liz, Nicole | Find and transport two baskets of coconuts, then grate five pounds worth. Plant 20 rows of rice in a traditional paddy.
| Each team runs a Thai street food cart, with the goal of earning the most money.
| John (wins $5000 instead of immunity) | Jenna | 0.83[10] |
Episode 8: Feeding the Demon | |||||||
| June 27, 2012 | Hong Kong, China |
Avery, Liz, Nicole | Retrieve an envelope from a statue of Buddha, then bundle 10 hairy crabs, then fill 7 steamer baskets with dumplings.
| The chefs compete as individuals to cook a five-course meal at a restaurant that offers "X-Treme Chinese Cuisine" for Alvin Leung. | Avery | Nicole | 0.83[11] |
Episode 9: Cry for Me Argentina | |||||||
| July 11, 2012 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Avery, Nookie | The chefs have to make 80 empanadas to then sell in a local park and earn 150 pesos.
| The teams takeover a local parrilla (grill house) and create a menu featuring two appetizers and two meat dishes.
| Liz | John | 0.76[12] |
Episode 10: A Winner Comes Home | |||||||
| July 18, 2012 | Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay |
Liz, Chaz, John | Go to three different shops for ingredients for, and then prepare, a traditional Uruguayan dish of each chef's choice
| Create a three-dish menu inspired by three of the chefs' previous destinations throughout the competition, with the help of two past contestants as sous chefs
| Avery | Liz | 0.83[13] |