Nilou Motamed

"It's always tough to decide," Padma Lakshmi said on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen: @ Home.

The head judge whipped up one dish he would have made during Bravo's Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.'s recent elimination challenge of creating a progressive vegetarian menu. 

The head judge showed Nilou Motamed how he would have handled the Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. premiere's elimination challenge of creating a wood-fire seafood feast.

"All of us jumped on a plane, we stopped everything, and we flew out there," the Bravo's Top Chef alum shared.

The Bravo's Top Chef judge will always remember these moving words from the Season 15 contestant.

It's the Below Deck-Below Deck Mediterranean crossover we've all been waiting for.