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Do celebrity chefs like Lagasse and Besh actually cook in their restaurants...
Posted on 12/18/16 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 2:41 pm
or have they become just businessmen and media personalities? Do they show up on occasion to cook at one of their restaurants ever?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 2:48 pm to Jake88
Lagasse was in the kitchen at Meril when I went. Not sure if he was cooking, but he was involved.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 3:10 pm to Jake88
If you actually find them cooking now it would be only for a publicity stunt. One night wen Emeril's first opened my wife and I had dinner at the food bar overlooking the kitchen. I had a friend who worked there who had come over with Emeril from Commander's Palace so we were getting the red carpet treatment. Emeril was right in front of us doing all the cooking. He was carrying on a conversation with us the whole time. Many times when he finished a dish for someone else he would taste it himself and spoon a little sample of it on to our plates. I think we tried just about everything on the menu that night. Then after dessert he sent us glasses of one of his best Vintage Ports. It was quite an experience. That was a long time ago.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 3:39 pm to Jake88
They do a bit when a new restaurant opens I'm sure for a few days, but other than that not really.
More management and promotion.
More management and promotion.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 3:55 pm to Jake88
Besh still does it with some regularity I believe.
I read an article recently where Emeril said he's enjoying not having as much business and tv show stuff to do and has been in his restaurants more often
I read an article recently where Emeril said he's enjoying not having as much business and tv show stuff to do and has been in his restaurants more often
This post was edited on 12/18/16 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 3:58 pm to Jake88
Seldom, that's what line cooks are for. Sous chefs are for operations & Chefs de Cuisine are for administration.
Chef/Owners that have multiple units are too busy to stand around cooking. But every so often they take the time to stop and smell the sautéed onions!
Chef/Owners that have multiple units are too busy to stand around cooking. But every so often they take the time to stop and smell the sautéed onions!
Posted on 12/18/16 at 4:24 pm to notiger1997
So do they ever do something like a cooking tour of their restaurants?
If it's just a brand name, why would I care if Besh or Lagasse open it as compared to a well trained chef?
What about a guy like Tory McPhail? Not a celebrity, but does he cook at Commander's or is he more administrative?
If it's just a brand name, why would I care if Besh or Lagasse open it as compared to a well trained chef?
What about a guy like Tory McPhail? Not a celebrity, but does he cook at Commander's or is he more administrative?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:37 pm to Jake88
Torry McPhail is very hands on in Commander's kitchen.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 6:46 pm to geauxpurple
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Torry McPhail is very hands on in Commander's kitchen.
That's what I've heard. He was not in there on a busy Saturday night last year when we ate at the chefs table, but I hear he is there most of the time.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:19 pm to Jake88
Does Enzo mount the tires on your Ferrari?
Posted on 12/18/16 at 7:31 pm to Jake88
Let me ask you this question, do you understand how kitchens work? Since Escoffier established the brigade system, no single one cook cooks all of your meal. The typical modern kitchen uses cooks, sous chefs, and and expediter to cook food. Are there nights when a celebrity chef works the expo station? Yes. Are there nights when they work the line? Maybe. But in the vast majority of kitchens, be it celebrity or neighborhood, cooks with bo names cook the food.
So what does it really matter who is expoing if the food is the same?
So what does it really matter who is expoing if the food is the same?
This post was edited on 12/18/16 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:34 pm to BlackenedOut
I would assume their main focus is quality control. Those guys come up with the recipes and the cooks at their restaurants have to follow them to a T.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:39 pm to Jake88
I've been to Emerils twice, Emeril was cooking in the kithchen both times, but that was many years ago.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:44 pm to BlackenedOut
If anything they would probably be on expo in the early days of a new venture - overseeing flow of tickets coming in, barking orders for the line and quality control on plates going out.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 8:44 pm to notiger1997
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I read an article recently where Emeril said he's enjoying not having as much business and tv show stuff to do and has been in his restaurants more often
He was on the kitchen on Friday and had a fresh stain on his apron when he came out so must have been doing something
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:07 pm to Jake88
This contributes nothing to the thread, but I dreamed last night that I was dining at a new non existent Donald Link restaurant with like 20 tables. The kitchen staff was shorted handed so Link himself showed up to cook. This all took some time (our order was taken before it was known kitchen was short staffed) so he comped the whole meal for my table of four.
(This was, sadly, a real dream. Not trying to be a jerk, I dream boring things).
(This was, sadly, a real dream. Not trying to be a jerk, I dream boring things).
This post was edited on 12/18/16 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:19 pm to poochie
Yes. The guy expoing at say an Emeril or Link or Batali restaurant (and effectively the exec chef) probably has a better eye and taste bud of what the named guy wants than the named guy has. These are usually long term lieutenants who have worked their way up. So in essence, is the celebrity chef "cooking" your meal? Maybe by osmosis.
Posted on 12/18/16 at 9:36 pm to Jake88
I'm sure once in awhile. But that's why you have line cooks and chef d cuisine. So you don't have to be in the kitchen all the time.
Posted on 12/19/16 at 8:01 am to uptowntiger84
Yeah I think it's here and there
Bobby Flay was cooking steaks when my wife and I ate at Mesa Grill years ago in NYC
Bobby Flay was cooking steaks when my wife and I ate at Mesa Grill years ago in NYC
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