Home crowd cheers for Blais in 'Top Chef' finals

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Atlanta patrons at Home, the restaurant where Richard Blais is executive chef, gathered Wednesday night to cheer him on in the finals of Bravo TV's 'Top Chef.'

Richard Blais faces the 'Top Chef' finals on the TV screen at Home, the new Buckhead restaurant where he is executive chef.

Watching the final anxious moments at Home are, L-R, Whitney Elswick, Ben Williams, Mimi Williams and Home restaurant chef de cuisine Jef Wright.

Helping cheer on Richard Blais in the audience at Home is 4-month-old Cecilia Burlington, sporting a Blais-like shark-fin hairstyle.

Bartender Cat Oden stands in the glare of a TV at Home as Melissa Thompson (far left) and her sister, Caroline Thompson, watch the finals of Bravo's 'Top Chef.'

Some of the crowd gathered in the Home restaurant bar to watch the finals of 'Top Chef,' where Atlanta's Richard Blais was in the running.

Richard Blais in an earlier episode with 'Top Chef' judge Tom Coliccho, who called Blais' cooking "whimsical, playful and sometimes just plain outrageous."

At times the pace was frantic for Richard Blais and the other contestants during the 16 weeks of taping 'Top Chef.'

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Richard Blais faces the 'Top Chef' finals on the TV screen at Home, the new Buckhead restaurant where he is executive chef.

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