on Oct 25th, 2007TV chefs restaurant guide
From Midtown to Downtown, restaurants owned by or associated with chefs we’ve come know from television are sprinkled around Manhattan like dots on a map. Actually, they are dots on a map now.
Gridskipper has published a handy and typically irreverant guide to those eateries, complete with opinionated commentaries. It’s obvious immediately that there would be far fewer dots without Mario Batali. Missing from the guide is Acquavit and its brilliant long-time chef Marcus Samuelsson. Perhaps the fact that he was on the Food Network only a few times about a decade ago means he’s just not household-name enough. And that’s a pity; he deserves to be better known.
You’ll find the guide to 16 restaurants here in alphabetical order from Babbo (Batali) to The Spotted Pig (also Batali). Give the map a moment to load.
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Bizarre, because Samuelsson had his own show called “Inner Chef” (it’s a pretty cruddy show and I’m not even sure it made it to Season 2) on Discovery Home Channel. But even with that, I guess he’s not a household name which really is a shame. Sometimes I wish some of these TV chefs would just get back in the kitchen!! Thank GOD you will not find any Rachel Ray restaurant in the guide . OH RIGHT… she’s not a chef. She just (attempts to, barely) plays one one TV. Amy @ neverfull.wordpress.com
I didn’t know about that show; I never watch that channel. Darn!
And don’t get me started again on RayRay…