Good news for Los Angeles-based fans of the movie Chef: you will soon be able to get a Cubano sandwich! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Favreau is teaming up with Roy Choi, of Korean taco-truck fame, to open up a restaurant serving food that was featured in the hit movie. Still no word on a location for the joint venture.
I had to look up the movie and I still don't think I've heard of it. Did anyone see it? Sofia is so irritating that I don't know if I could watch.
ReplyDeleteI saw it. It's cute. It's more a story about him reconnecting with his son but there's a lot of food porn too. Not for everyone but worth checking out on Netflix. SV was a supporting role not too much screen time.
DeleteI'll keep a lookout for it @katydid!
Delete@lotta-definitely worth a watch if you're into food porn. I loved it! Sofia wasnt too bad in it, def toned down from playing Gloria.
DeleteI hate cooking shows and it pisses me off they are on network tv now. I would never see a movie about cooking FFS! Like unless you are writing the recipes down (which they never seem to show) why the hell do people watch these shows? Is it a bunch of fatties at home jerking off to food?
ReplyDeleteYES! Yes it is.
DeleteWatching Top Chef is what got me motivated to learn how to cook. We started watching it after it had been on for a few seasons, and I was so jazzed watching them cook on the fly like that and get so creative - that was it. My ex-husband just laughs because I never cooked for him in the 15 years we were married. Now I cook all the time. My ex and Mr. Min pin are both cooks so I wouldn't have to cook if I didn't want to. We got burned out on watching the show after a few seasons but it sure motivated me to get busy and learn stuff in the kitchen.
DeleteIt must be South Korean taco truck
ReplyDeleteFavreau & Choi will sell Cubano sandwiches.
ReplyDeleteI know an actual Cuban restaurant, run by actual Cubans. I think I'll stick with that.
I was about to say there's probably some great hole in the wall restaurant in LA that sells absolutely marvelous Cubano sandwiches for half the price.
ReplyDeleteHonestly the 100 foot journey is an excellent movie as well as Babette's feast. Both about cooking or more about the love of food. Also blood for chocolate is a good movie as well.
Babette's Feast is a lovely movie.
DeleteSorry..Like Water for Chocolate...And I adored Babette's Feast.
DeleteI was gonna say - Blood For Chocolate??? I liked watching Juliette Binoche work her magic with some cocoa and a mixing bowl in the movie Chocolat. I never have gotten around to reading LWFC. I heard the book is excellent.
DeleteYes MinPin the book is always better than the movie but the movie was awesome!
Delete@Derek, we're not all fatties jerking off to food porn, just as anyone who watches a Real Housewives or Teen Mom show is someone living in mom's basement and pretending to be a lawyer all day. :D
ReplyDeleteI love the Barefoot Contessa and Hell's Kitchen and anything Nigella Lawson. I can't stand Ree Drummond the Fake Pioneer Woman or Shrill Rachel Ray.
The appeal is they not only give you the recipes, but watching them cook and plate gives a lot of inspiration, too. Ina Garten showed me how to properly truss a chicken the easy way. Gordon Ramsay's steak video is still my favorite steak method. Nigella Lawson's mini-meatballs with homemade sauce is simply glorious and takes less than an hour. Giuliano Hazan (his mother is Marcella Hazan) taught me how to make homemade pasta. Food porn is the best. :b
no no I know I know----different strokes---I would never wish my Housewife addiction on my own worst enemy! haha
DeleteAgree @Seven! Ina & Alton are my faves.
DeleteI love Alton although will not agree with everything he says. Ina drives me crazy (Jeffrey!!!). I love Lidia, Mins Tsai, Jacques Pepin and Rick Bayless, Would love to see Hazan's son...Or her for that matter.
DeleteAnyone not a "star" on the Food Network...Off to watch that steak video..
I would kill for a Cuban sandwich right now. I'm going to work on a gluten/chemical free version I can eat.
ReplyDeleteI saw the movie and it wasn't bad except for Sophia, she ruined it for me! She's so over the top and fake in everything and a TERRIBLE actress. The food looked great though.
ReplyDeleteI just saw Chef on the list for Netflix. I'm oddly attracted to this guy (please don't tell me he's an ass) and I thought the movie looked simple and sweet.
ReplyDeleteI saw Chef and really liked it. Sofia wasn't that bad. Very cute movie.
ReplyDeleteI heard of the movie because it was featured on Top Chef. I love cooking shows AND Real Housewives. And I'm not fat or living in a basement.
ReplyDeleteThe Debi Mazaar show is my current fave. I live for Nigella. Top Chef is very fascinating to me. I just think it is amazing how the contestants come up with things on the fly and adapt to crazy situations and kitchens. When I help cook things at a family member's house in a kitchen that I'm slightly familiar with but it's not mine, I get so flummoxed at my inability to find shit and function. That alone blows my mind about Top Chef. How do they cook such amazing stuff in a kitchen that is not their own. At least they have their knives. LOL.
Isn't word on the street that Roy Choi is a bit of douchebag? I would watch this movie.
Susan, I am with you on cooking at others places unless they too are home chefs which most are not hence YOU cooking.
ReplyDeleteI once had an employee ask me to dinner..When I got there I asked what we were having and she said, whatever you want to make. Oh, got it...You wanted me to MAKE YOU dinner. Funny..
Enough with everyones obsession with food!!!!!!! There are mags a whole channel devoted to watching people cook!! No one but me thinks this is overkill??!!
ReplyDeleteDebi Mazar and her husband are my new guilty pleasure. You just know he can cook food and, well, other things too. Bourdain and his wife were on their show the other day. Good times.
ReplyDeleteI also like Andreas Viestad from Norway. He always looks as if he's having so much fun. Most of the ingredients he uses aren't that available in the States but I watch him whenever I can. He's on the Create channel here in NYC along with Mazar and her husband.
I also enjoyed Kelis holiday special. And I like Alton Brown in small doses.
Emeril when he was in his "bam" stage got me cooking. He used to explain why you did things in between putting on a show. Now I watch Cooking Channel and Create TV.
Latch-key kid here, so I didn't grow up with real cooking, meaning something from scratch. Watching some of the chefs prepare dishes helped me make sense of how to approach a recipe, prep ingredients, correct mistakes, try new things. It's fun.
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