Restaurant

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE MIGHT DO IT AGAIN

It’s been 30 years since Christina Applegate opened her a popular, but short-lived restaurant, RubiRosa, in West Hollywood, and now she’s hoping to re-create the magic. The Married with Children star has put acting on the back burner due to her battle with MS, but she wants to keep herself busy. She’s been telling friends that even though her restaurant only lasted a few years, she had some of the best times of her life there. Christina’s hoping lightning strikes twice and she’s looking at available spaces in the West Hollywood area to open up a hip vegetarian restaurant. She’s altered her diet due to her health issues and has gotten creative with her vegetarian cooking – her kale lasagna (!) is one of her specialties. It is still in the planning stages, so we’ll keep you posted as we hear more updates…

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ELLEN DEGENERES AND PORTIA DE ROSSI ARE OPENING A VEGAN RESTAURANT

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi are looking for real estate in Montecito, California. But this time they don’t want a house to flip, they’re looking for a location to open up a vegan restaurant. Although they still have a place in Los Angeles, the two women spend most of their time in Montecito, where they call Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle their neighbors. The moneyed neighborhood has some very high-end restaurants, but Portia and Ellen are NOT thrilled with the vegan options. They’re working with a private chef and hope to partner up and open up a place on Coast Village Road later this year.

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BROOKLYN BECKHAM IS EYEING THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS

Brooklyn Beckham may have finally figured out what to do with his life. He and his wife, Nicole Peltz, are going into the restaurant business. The jet setting couple haves homes in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Miami, so now they want to open restaurants in each city. Brooklyn has spent the last few years honing his chef skills on his poorly-received online cooking show, Cookin With Brooklyn. Back then he barely knew how to boil water and online comments were abundant and cruel, but people watched.  Nevertheless, he’s become more confident with his cooking skills. For THEIR restaurants, Brooklyn and Nicole envision clubby style places that would appeal to their generation.

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OPRAH: BACK IN THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS?

Oprah Winfrey wants to get back in the restaurant business. In the late 1980’s Oprah opened The Eccentric in Chicago with partners, but her TV career kept her SO busy that she  barely had time to enjoy the venture. Fast forward to now,  and Oprah is semi-retired, so she wants to open up a Members Only restaurant in Montecito, where she and her neighbors like Meghan Markle and Kevin Costner can cut loose away from the prying eyes of the public…

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LISA VANDERPUMP IS EXPANDING, NOT DOWNSIZING

Is a rent increase the REAL reason that former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Lisa Vanderpump closing her successful West Hollywood restaurant Pump? Lisa has owned the popular place located in the center of boys town (where the gay bars and restaurants are located) for a decade, and recently revealed she‘s closing the doors because of a rent increase. A Bravo insider says that might not be the ONLY reason. Lisa, who already owns restaurants in Las Vegas and is opening more, is in talks to be the lead of The Real Housewives of Las Vegas, which is quietly being developed. Lisa and her husband are also looking at estates in the posh Lake Las Vegas area. My Bravo insider says the plan is to cast Vegas movers and shakers, and have familiar face Lisa also star.

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BEN AND JEN MIGHT GET INTO THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez want to serve you some tasty BBQ. The couple hired Jon G’s, a modest Texas-style barbecue restaurant in North Carolina, to cater their 2022 wedding and their guests absolutely FLIPPED for the food. Now Ben and Jen are hoping to invest in the mom and pop business and take it nationwide. An insider reveals the excited owners have no current desire to sell the restaurant or their recipes, but they ARE interested in partnering up with the famous couple to expand across the USA.

PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Vaughn – customers line up an hour before Jon G’s bbq opens…

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GORDON RAMSAY DOESN’T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT

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Gordon Ramsay was photographed with his cute daughter Mathilda in London. (We wonder if she’s inherited his penchant for profanity.) His family life has been less disruptive than his restaurants – he’s been married to his wife Tana since 1996 and they have four kids total. Meanwhile the restaurant he opened at The Grove here in Los Angeles was a miserable failure. Perhaps it SOUNDED like a good idea to name it The Fat Pig, but it repelled a lot of people. (Us included.) The food was described as unappetizing and overpriced ($28 for a cheeseburger at a mall?) It closed after a year and a half and the landlord sued Ramsay for $6 million, and his business partner sued him too. He even got sued by another restaurant with the same name.

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LISA VANDERPUMP GETS HER WAY AT THE POLO LOUNGE

Lisa Vanderpump and her husband Ken went to the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel for their special Sunday brunch that costs $67.00 per person. The restaurant doesn’t allow splitting, but Lisa INSISTED on sharing the 3 course meal with Ken. (Is she saving money or calories?) Her waiter didn’t know what to do and referred her to their manager. She turned on the “Housewives” charm and told to the manager that she and Ken ALWAYS split their meals, and could he PLEASE make an exception? He did, and we wonder if Lisa would do the same in HER restaurants…
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ELLEN AND PORTIA’S DOGS ARE VEGAN TOO

Not only are Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi both vegans, but they have cats and a dogs at home that are vegans also. Feeding themselves is not difficult, especially since they are opening a vegan restaurant in the San Fernando Valley on Ventura Blvd. Finding appropriate pet food with no animal byproducts is not as easy. So now Ellen and Portia are looking into coming out with a complete line of vegan pet food.

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TYRA BANKS ALMOST MISSED A MEAL

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Like everyone else on New Year’s Day, Tyra Banks had to hunt for a place to eat because most restaurants were closed. She and her boyfriend John Utendahl left their Santa Monica hotel and drove to four or five restaurants before they found a place open: Barney’s Gourmet Hamburgers. By then she was starving, and Tyra reportedly devoured a gourmet burger and curly fries.

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