Who Won Top Chef?

Top Chef [SPOILER ALERT: The following story unveils the champion of Top Chef Season 9. Read in the own risk.]After trekking through Texas and lengthy lasting more all-nighters and meat challenges than imaginable, Paul Qui and Sarah Grueneberg faced off throughout the final time for your Top Chef Season 9 title.Top Chef's Lindsay: I didn't take enough risksNo sooner had Lindsay end up being the boot, Tom and Padma reveal the best challenge: create a four-course tasting menu inside the restaurant you've always dreamed of. A couple of from the removed chefs within the whole season - including He Who Could not Butchers, Tyler - along with master chefs Barbara Lynch and Marco Canora, arrive to organize a dish wishing being Paul's and Sarah's sous chefs. Each pick four carrying out a blind tasting. Paul chooses Barbara, Ty-lor, "Malibu" Chris and Keith. Sarah chooses Nyesha, Tyler ("I'm not permitting you to definitely butchers," she notifies him), Louise and Grayson.Sarah, clearly, has her hands full with Tyler (who's wearing his trademarked Chef Tyler Stone chef jacket, natch), but Paul is anxious that none of his sous chefs understand his Asian style. He must nix crab after locating the meat is funky, but fortunately he's prawns just like a backup. The idol idol judges as well as the chefs' families put into groups for dining.Top Chef's Beverly: I certainly felt the fan supportHere's whatever they offered:Paul, Qi RestaurantFirst course: chawanmushi, edamame, pea shoots and put prawnsSecond course: grilled sea bass with clam dashi, selected radishes and mushroomsThird course: congee with scrambled eggs, uni, kale and smoked albacoreFourth course: coconut frozen goodies, puffed grain, kumquats, mangosteen, Thai chili foam and jasmin geleeSarah, Monte Verde RestaurantFirst course: squid ink tagliatelle, place prawns and cocunutSecond course: rye-crusted steelhead trout with fennel sauce, pickled beets and gras pistaThird course: braised veal face with crispy sweetbread and polentaFourth course: hazelnut cake with kumquat and white-colored chocolate ganacheTop Chef's Beverly: I certainly felt the fan supportAfter the initial service, Sarah tries to fix her polenta for your second one and averts disaster when her fiancé notifies her to evaluate her sea food because his stood a bone within it. Paul, however, told Keith to fire place off lots of chawanmushi and so they finish off overcooked, but he's expected to serve them.Overall, each of them earn high praise - Padma calls Sarah's dessert the most effective she's ever suffered around the program - but a lot of the idol idol judges needed problem along with her sweetbread dish. Paul, very high cost ticket, can get dinged for his second chawanmushi service.Undertaking a extended deliberation, Padma crowns... Paul Top Chef! (This can be his ninth challenge win of the year, incidentally.)Paul, awesome of course, takes my way through stride, while his parents and girlfriend cry and celebrate. Sarah tearfully states she thinks she warrants being Top Chef, nevertheless it wasn't her day. Whoever else consider the finale? Did the very best chef win?