The season was won by kitchen supervisor La Tasha McCutchen, with lead line cook Bryant Gallaher finishing second.

Reward/punishment: The women were rewarded with a dinner at the Hotel Bel-Air prepared by Wolfgang Puck while the men were taken to Hell's Kitchen, and tasked to set up the dorms and organize the luggage from both teams.

During the punishment, JR, who openly admitted that he "came to Hell's Kitchen to cook and live the good life", quit after carrying in a single box, earning his teammates' ire.

Service: At opening night, celebrities Greg Grunberg, Scott Grimes, Paul Feig, Bob Guiney and Eva LaRue were in attendance.

The men received multiple punishments, which included cleaning up all leftover sand from the challenge, eating a lunch of boiled salt cod with a gefilte fish sauce, then preparing the geoduck special, as well as setting both kitchens for that night's service.

The men had another poor service; despite Bryant putting in a good performance on the appetizers, Steve served raw halibut and boiled scallops, while Fernando and Sterling undercooked lamb and pork.

The women were unable to repeat their performance of the previous episode; Janai served overcooked risottos and refused to give accurate times, which caused Denine to undercook scallops and lobster.

Service: Several celebrities in attendance included Nestor Serrano, Chris Bosh, Kendall Schmidt and the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team.

Reward/punishment: The men spent the day at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica, where they met and played with former water polo champions Genai Kerr, Shea Buckner, and Tumua Anae.

Service: Ramsay's mother, Helen Cosgrove, along with Mary Murphy, Jim Jefferies and Asia Monet Ray were in attendance for family night.

The men had a relatively trouble free service despite some initial speed bumps due to the slowness of the pizza station and Aaron serving raw scallops on the last table of appetizers.

On entrees, Roe forgot to bring cauliflower and fries that were on order, resulting in the men finishing five tables ahead of the women.

Team change: After Katie's elimination, Ramsay told Sterling to remove his jacket and join the women to even out the numbers, as the men were not confident in his abilities.

Bryant's fettucine alfredo was criticized for being over-sized and over-complicated, but Sterling's choice of fire roasted peppers made his dish seem more Southern than Italian, giving the blue team a 3-2 win.

Steve got the blue team off to a bad start with a soupy risotto, while Frank served raw steak and overcooked chicken on the first table of entrées.

Reward/punishment: The red team went on a trip to San Diego, where they watched various animals perform unique talents at SeaWorld, and had lunch at the Searsucker Restaurant.

Reward/punishment: The red team flew in a private jet to Las Vegas, and spent the night in a luxury mega-suite at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.

Meanwhile, the blue team spent the day refilling the kitchen's ice machines, prepping a 65-pound halibut for the upcoming dinner service as well as taking a delivery of ingredients at 3:30 in the morning.

To fill in the empty space, the chef who was assigned that protein (La Tasha for the red team, Bryant for the blue) was able to select one ingredient from the following: tomatoes, okra, saag paneer, green beans.

Team challenge: The chefs had make two servings of their own amuse-bouche to be judged by Ramsay and Epicurious Editor-in-Chief Tanya Steel and scored on a scale of 1–5.

Sade's pan-seared tuna needed only 2 points to tie, but scored 9 as the best dish of the day, giving her team a 23-16 win and ending her personal streak of seven consecutive losses.

Reward/punishment: Roe was rewarded with a photo shoot for an Omaha Steaks billboard campaign, featuring her winning dish, followed by a $1,000 kitchen equipment shopping spree at Surfas.

Reward/punishment: Bryant was rewarded with an overnight glamping trip at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and chose Sade to join him, as he wanted to find out what her weaknesses were.

The others were sent to the Hollywood Hills to scoop dog feces and back to Hell's Kitchen to separate organics from recyclables, during which La Tasha had a very hard time keeping herself from vomiting.

However, Sade managed to spot Andi putting clams instead of mussels in the capellini and Marino giving her a ticket with a pork chop, which wasn't on the menu.

La Tasha failed to notice the difference between a sea bass and a halibut, but called out Bryant for being slow on mashed potatoes before undercooking them and showing disrespect towards her.

Challenge: When Bryant and La Tasha returned to Los Angeles they were greeted by a woman from the airport who told them that their ride had not arrived yet, but they were escorted to a room where they were greeted by a cheering crowd and given their final challenge; they needed to cook five unique dishes: one cold appetizer and hot appetizer, as well as a beef, chicken, and fish entree, in front of a live audience and had only one hour with the assistance of Sous Chefs Andi and James.

During the tasting of both menus, Ramsay gave mostly positive feedback to Bryant’s menu, but critiqued several of La Tasha's dishes for having too many elements on the plates, a problem that was quickly rectified.

In addition to the finalists' families, Margaret Cho, Aisha Tyler, Tory Belleci, Sharon Lawrence and Traci Bingham also appeared as guests.

Fernando was slow on his scallops and struggled to call back times on his sea bass, with Ramsay even accusing him of trying to sabotage La Tasha.