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Maybe this married foreign born celebrity chef (not named Gordon Ramsay) should spend more time at his restaurants and less time having sex with other women and partying. At least one of his restaurants in Beverly Hills is empty every single night. The chef doesn't care though because he was already paid for his involvement and says no one will notice if it closes. The owners will and are threatening a lawsuit because the chef has not been in the place in a year despite his contract which says he needs to show up a few times each month. I have been in the place before. To be fair it wasn't empty the night I went in to use the bathroom. There were at least two foreign businessmen asking the waiters how come no one else was in there besides them. Oh, and did the waiter know Mila Kunis and where she lived.
Puck
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ReplyDeleteJosé Andrés?
ReplyDeleteI'm hopping on the Puck train.
ReplyDeleteHahaha I was about to come in and ask when that POS from Real World became a celeb chef.
ReplyDeleteI think ya'll got it, Wolfgang
Thank you! I accidentally skipped straight to comments, saw Puck, and had one gigantic, booger-flicking, knee-scraping, douche love-hating flashback.
DeleteI thought the same thing @baconranch
ReplyDeleteLmao me 3
ReplyDeleteditto on Real World Puck. hanging head.
ReplyDeleteWhat were they going to do - knock on her door? Stalk her house from the street? Losers.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a trend. I thought it was Gordon Ramsay who did this in my city.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/17/montreal-restaurant-dumps-gordon-ramsay-from-name-because-star-chef-never-showed-up-just-didnt-get-it/
Ive read reviews of his chain and they all pretty much say the place sux
ReplyDeleteCurtis Stone?
ReplyDeleteI was w/ BR, like who the fuck is Puck?
ReplyDeleteI see his cans of chili or beef stew @ the store. shit looks like fukn dog food!
Kunis (along with Kutcher and Valderama) is an investor in the Dolce group, it owns Dolce in Beverly Hills, Geisha House and others. I don't know which one has a celebrity chef.
ReplyDeleteDoes Morimoto have a restaurant in LA? Because isn't he known for having really neat japanese bathrooms? Why else would Enty randomly go there to go to the bathroom?
ReplyDeletePuck's Tulsa location closed this past year.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I'm serious. There was a Tulsa location.
Isn't Wolfie the first of the "Celebrity Chefs"?
ReplyDeleteSure, he's no Julia Child, but he's worked the food stroll for decades.
Isn't Wolfie the first of the "Celebrity Chefs"?
ReplyDeleteSure, he's no Julia Child, but he's worked the food stroll for decades.
Foreign Born & Big Names:
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Morimoto
Puck
Fabio Viviani (not as famous but some noteriety)
Andres
Jamie Oliver
ReplyDeleteWho the eff is puck?
Wolfgang Puck owns Spago, has a line of organic soups and suff & sells cookware on HSN.
ReplyDelete@ellashm - my sister was a pastry chef at that restaurant, and there's a lot more to the story than what's in that article. Ramsay did show up fairly regularly, but the other owner was a huge fuck up and ran the place into the ground. I'm sure she doesn't even 100% know all the details, but she HATED the owner that wasn't Ramsay. She said Ramsay was pretty chill and kind to the staff, but he did swear a lot.
ReplyDelete@Caraface: Wow it's very interesting to hear the inside scoop. Although I grew up in that neighbourhood, I have since moved to the suburbs and haven't had a chance to go check out the restaurant. The only thing I know about it is what I read and now what you tell me. Of course, there's always three sides to a story. Thanks for the input!
ReplyDeleteDoes anybody really follow the gossip of celebrity chefs? I'm seriously asking. It's not a segment of entertainment that I follow at all…just wondering how many of us are into it.
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ReplyDeleteI kinda hope it's Wolfgang Puck, in that I bought some of his TV dinners and they were vile. Depending on how horrible each was, he became Wolfgang Yuck, Wolfgang Suck, or Wolfgang Fuck You!
ReplyDeletePuck owns all his original restaurants (not the chains) in LA and isn't under contract to show up at any of them (that said, he does show up a lot at the BH Spago). So - not him.
ReplyDeleteI think it's Andres. He's bigger in the food world than he is in the public eye. Also possibly Nobu Matsuhisa, whose first restaurant was in LA (and is now in that Chase commercial at the barbecue joint). I don't think Oliver or Curtis Stone have BH restaurants.
@naughtynurse in short, YES especially in big markets on a local level, especially since the schedules of the culinary world (i.e. night hours w/booze) combined with ego breed scandal. Throw in a little celebrity and, well, its gossip gold, if you care.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the José Andrés guess.
ReplyDeleteCelebrity chef gossip is a big deal.
Just want to dispel the Curtis Stone guess. He's super nice and a very hard worker for all of his brands.
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