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Eva Longoria to Expand Beso Empire
Desperate Housewives star and successful restaurateur Eva Longoria is taking her eatery national. Longoria opened Beso, a Mexican restaurant in Hollywood, with chef Todd English back in 2007. The popular joint quickly became a celebrity hangout.
Yummy Links: From Epi's iPhone App to Swine Flu Cocktails
- Epicurious' just-launched free iPhone application makes me want to trade in my BlackBerry. — Epicurious
- Roasted beef tenderloin and cheesy baked rice is the perfect Kentucky Derby meal. — Chow
- Lavish restaurant openings have been replaced with low-key charity events.
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Top Chef Producers to Create NBC Restaurateur Show
From Magical Elves, the producers of Bravo's Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, and the soon-to-air Top Chef: Just Desserts, comes yet another reality TV show, tentatively titled United Plates of America.
Unlike its sister productions, United Plates will air on NBC. The premise: aspiring restaurateurs compete in a number of challenges involving the restaurant's concept, cuisine, management, and marketability.
The London Opens in LA, No HK Chefs in Sight
Gordon Ramsay's Los Angeles restaurant, the London, opened last night with a star-studded dinner service. However, the cheftestants from Hell's Kitchen were nowhere in to be found. This makes me wonder if the HK prize — to be chef of the London — is a little exaggerated.
Yummy Links: From Michael Symon to Padma Lakshmi
- Q&A with Iron Chef and recent cookbook author Michael Symon. — Serious Eats
- Five ways to enjoy avocado any time of day. — The Epi-Log
- The Food Network UK has launched and has high hopes of expanding.
Coming Soon: Twilight, the Restaurant
Considering that everyone — Sugar included! — is getting caught up in the hype surrounding the Twilight series, it comes as no surprise that one couple, Annette and Tim Root of Forks, WA, have decided to launch a Twilight-themed restaurant in the town where the books are set.
Although the family-style eatery will be named Volterra, after the Italian city where the Volturi law-enforcing vampires live, the cuisine won't be Italian.
Momofuku's David Chang Talks Sabbaticals and San Francisco
We've always been huge fans of New York chef and restaurateur David Chang: He was Sugar's pick for Best Restaurant Chef of 2008. By fusing innovative flavor combinations and haute kitchen techniques with casual dining, the Momofuku overlord revolutionized the restaurant scene in America.
What's most refreshing about Chang, however, are his irreverent demeanor and unapologetic opinions.
North Korea Opens First Fast-Food Burger Joint — Well, Sort Of
North Korea doesn't merely have beef with the US government — it's also taken issue with America's most iconic food: the hamburger. Although the communist regime and its authoritarian leader, Kim Jong-Il, have long banned any cultural influences considered to be "US imperialist," the country opened its first-ever fast-food restaurant last month. The only thing that won't be served?
Cat Cora Set to Open Disney World Restaurant
It's looking to be quite the year for celebrity chef Cat Cora. Not only does the female Iron Chef have a bun in the oven, but she's also announced she will open her first signature restaurant in Disney World.
The chef, whose Food Network bio says she's currently working on her signature restaurant will open Kouzzina by Cat Cora, a Mediterranean restaurant at Disney's Boardwalk Resort this Fall.
Jean-Georges Creating "the Applebee's of Haute Cuisine"
Famed chef and restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten is up for one of this year's most prestigious James Beard Awards, but that's hardly the biggest thing on his mind. Fortune profiles the New York chef and his aggressive plans to open 50 new restaurants in the next five years.
Vongerichten, who already has 24 restaurants under his belt, has created a joint venture, Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges, with Starwood Hotels and Catterton Partners, a private equity firm credited with turning P.F.
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