Review: Dinner Impossible

Tonight Food Network premiered the newly revamped Dinner: Impossible.  Much has been made of former host Robert Irvine’s off-screen actions so now Iron Chef Michael Symon stepped in and the challenge was to visit Wildwood, NJ to cook gourmet boardwalk food for 300 workers in just seven hours.

Symon was fun and still brought the unbelievable imagination-under-fire that made Irvine so fun to watch.  What was missing was the occasional anger-management session that made the previous shows a little hard to watch at times.  My favorite two Symon creations were a gazpacho with vodka that was put through a Margarita machine and served cold in a lemon cup with lobster and then there was the dessert, chocolate covered bacon.  Yes, you read that right.  I was recently talked into trying a gourmet chocolate bar that contained bacon bits and it was surprisingly good.

I like the new host, I liked the challenge, and a really liked the new intro that shows Symon with his Harley in the middle of the dessert.  It adds a little Mad Max edge to the show.  It was the perfect accompaniment to Symon’s mad cap laugh.