Hottest Chef, Cont.: Lauren, Hollingsworth, Black, Villavelazquez

In a massive voting turnout yesterday, Aziza's Louis Maldonado topped Joshua Skenes of Saison to guarantee a place in the second round of the first annual Hottest Chef in the Bay Area competition. Today's face-off should be a good one too: Absinthe's Jamie Lauren squares off against the French Laundry's blue-eyed chef de cuisine Timothy Hollingsworth, Sebo's Michael Black, and her fellow Absinthe staffer in pastry chef Luis Villavelazquez. May the hottest chef emerge.

[Lauren poll photo: Flickr/kjwines]