Laura, do you also get off giving away movie endings? Sometimes surprise is a good thing!

I have always disliked this entire show. Mess with talented people's heads who think they're getting a real time to shine on cable TV, just to have them blindsided by Bobby Flay saying I can make your signature dish and kick your version's butt. Makes Flay seem like he has an inferiority complex to everyone amongst other things.

I think whoever leaked this is doing a service and watching the back of a talented local. It may be against the 'spirit' of this show, but I approve.

Oh, i shall enjoy Rodney handing Flay his rear. (If indeed this comes to fruition) Quiche is easy. A good quiche is an entirely different achievement.

I actually really enjoy this show. I find it to be the contested who most often win the throw downs. And, Bobby, is very gracious and complimentary to them at all times. After all, if he didn't think they were the best, he wouldn't want to "throw down".

Besides, Bobby isn't very good at baking, by his own admission, so the outcome of this throw down should be DD. I've been hoping Bobby would come to Baltimore to throw down with someone!

a busted surprise...no fun.

OK, OK, I've added a spoiler alert. And I won't tell you whose quiche wins. LV

Shouldn't a quiche off involve Baltimore's very own Jill Snyder?

If you watch the show, the "throwdown" isn't a surprise - have you ever noticed all the people there???

If it wasn't for Bobby's throwdown some of them would never get the chance to be on TV so them and the restaurant get a half hour of free publicity along with all the times that it gets repeated.

Joyce, I'm pretty sure Bobby Flay already "threw down" in Baltimore on a past episode...with a priest at that!

Dave the wave, they were at Mt. St. Mary's, not Baltimore.

Yes, this was a well-planned surprise ruined. The idea of "Throwdown" is that a chef is lured to a location under the guise that he is taking part in a (fictitious) Food Network show, and then Bobby Flay shows up and "throws it down" with some sort of challenge. It's all in good fun and it's usually pretty cool. But not this time, because for whatever reason, Ms. Vozzella decided to do some nosing around and spoil everyone's fun. Boo.

...for whatever reason, Ms. Vozzella decided to do some nosing around and spoil everyone's fun.

What part of NEWSpaper is unclear? Reporters report; whiners whine.

captcha: sound editable

How many different kinds of peppers will B Flay put in his version? My guess is no less than 3...

"But not this time, because for whatever reason, Ms. Vozzella decided to do some nosing around and spoil everyone's fun. Boo."

Oh, lighten up. It's not like she told a 6 year old that Santa doesn't exist.

There have been many Throwdowns, if the chef in this instance didn't expect this I'd be surprised.

what sort of silly fool thinks this is a real thing? nobody! y'all needs to get your hat out yer pocket and shine on. silly is as silly does.

all that stuff is super fake anyway. ever notice how when they surprise someone at home there is a cameraman inside the house already. fakey fake fakery fake fake fake, little brandon. boo, i'm the easter bunny

wow, this blog sucks now.

Whoa, hold it just a minute. Santa doesn't exist?

when i picked up two dangerously overpriced pies at the now closed hampden location, the owner went out of his way to let me know that he had better things to do than take my credit card. he seemed insulted that i didn't have cash. between standing in their empty dining room waiting for someone to help me and his "don't bother me" attitude, i spent 15 minutes and over $50 just picking up two pies (yes i felt stupid spending that much anyway). no wonder that spot didn't make it.

i guess my point, relative to this post, is the last thing i want to see on the boob tube is that guy brown nosing flay.

The upside to the spoiler (and we did choose to read past the spoiler alert) is that we now have the chance to attend what could be a really cool event.

If Laura was really vague about it, would any of us have gone to see Rodney cook at Power Plant? No. But now that we know Bobby Flay will also be there, will we go? Maybe. So thanks for the heads up.

Spoiler Alert!

ALL reality shows are FAKE!

double spoiler...100% chance BF will not be there. My "Tipsteress Extraordinaire" has him somewhere in New England today...sorry to disappoint.

If Flay "wins" it would be a neat touch to have Rodney take off his apron, whip out his Gretsch archtop, have the other members of The Glenmont Popes step out to challenge Flay to see if he can out-do Rodney in his "other" gig - "Rockabilly Icon"!

Didn't your grandparents tell you that the news was fake? Did your grandparents say that the lunar landing was done at a sound stage?

I was once paid by "one of the networks" to reenact the reopening of Ford's theater. They didn't have a clear shot of the actual event because there was an event tent in front of the door.

So, they paid me and others like me $100 to dress up in a ball gown and walk into the theater.

I am fairly certain it was presented as "news".

A lot of political themes mixed in with the food stories on this blog now. Could do with a little more emphasis on the food.

Well I guess this is what Jay C. wanted. Congrats. I'm done.

Ooops, I don't see anything political in what Laura wrote. Yes, I'm stupid.

I'm back in!

Well they couldnn't have picked a better place than Power Plant to represent Baltimore. I love the bars there, every one of them.

double spoiler...100% chance BF will not be there. My "Tipsteress Extraordinaire" has him somewhere in New England today...sorry to disappoint.

Guess again!

Well they couldnn't have picked a better place than Power Plant to represent Baltimore.

Shudder. Barf.

Sean - do you disagree? I suppose you are one of those people that likes places like Max's, Captain Larry's, and Brewers Art. Ye will never know the true Baltimore.

Heh... that's pretty funny, Flay!

I read an interesting article on CITYpeek.com on this Bobby Flay throw down event-- cute ending they write, don't let Rodney's (aka PieMan) tatoos and look scare you, he is a cutie pie" :-) And flay M, we so agree

...for whatever reason, Ms. Vozzella decided to do some nosing around and spoil everyone's fun.

You believe that wrestling is real, too, doncha!

plenty of people were ready to just show up and support a friend thinking maybe just maybe it might be a Throwdown, but maybe Rodney might actually be pitching a series... could baltimore have the darlings of pie AND cake? possible...

so yah, this isn't news, this is a gossip column... and discretion would've been really cool here...

this is telling a friend 'hey see you at your surprise party tomorrow night!" as you leave the office...

i am thrilled i don't read the sun and didn't know about this piece til flay walked by me uttering 'yeah, that's what you get when the Baltimore Sun leaks the surprise'

so... pretty work... unfortunately, i don't think they have a 'rain on others' parade' award...

this piece would've been just as effective as news, and the crowd would've been just as big but with fewer flay gawkers and the excitement would've been real and twice as big if this had been reported the next day...

and as for the spoiler alert - yeah, that came late after your headline...