Danny: "I have for you smoked mussels, plantains, and cabbage. On the base of the plate is a smoked mussel mayo, and then a fines herbes puree."

Judges, behind the scenes

"I love the cabbage." 

"The char was beautiful." 

"I love char." 

"I really like all the flavors, but I had a hard time figuring out how to get it onto my fork and then into my mouth. There's a lot going on. Like, throw everything in this dish and see what happens." 

"That's it. I like it. Yeah, weirdly like it."

Judges Table

"Danny, your smoked muscle course ... was the idea to kind of go in with a fork and knife and cut into it?" 

Danny: "I probably would have pulled the plantain chip out and put a bunch of things on it. I like to eat with my hands a lot." 

"I feel like that would have been more successful had that instruction come, because it does impact how someone receives the flavor of the dish. But whichever way you want to eat it. I thought it was really tasty." 

"I was a little reluctant about the mayonnaise, but it really made the dish. The flavors were there."