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All Posts Tagged: ‘24 prince’

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6/30/08

3:15 PM

Dave Martin of ‘Top Chef’ Is Banking on Mac and Chee$$$e

The mac daddy.Photo: Getty Images

When Steve Lewis interviewed Nikki Cascone of Top Chef, season four, she complained about having to cook macaroni and cheese at 24 Prince, though she admitted it paid the bills. One former cheftestant who’s just fine with serving the stuff, thank you very much? Dave Martin from season one. At an event for Self magazine, he told our reporter Sharon Clott than in six months he’s sold $35,000 worth of the $15 black-truffle macaroni and cheese at Crave on 42nd Street. “I actually had a conference call with Whole Foods last week, and they were talking about bringing it on their hot line or prepackaged menu,” he revealed. “I’m also talking to them about doing my sauces and roasted vinaigrette.” And people? He also might be on an upcoming episode of Sesame Street! Beats being stuck on the Top Chef cruise, no?

Back of the House 

5/ 8/08

5:30 PM

Axed Cheftestant on the Perils of Working With Dale

Nikki Cascone

"It still needs more Velveeta."Photo courtesy of Bravo

Last night on Top Chef a wedding challenge pitted two teams against each other in an effort to cook for 250 people in fourteen hours. With the exception of Andrew and his “culinary boner,” the gang looked as limp as steam-table vegetables by the end. The groom’s team, headed up by Nikki Cascone, took to the chopping block for their sorry (and overly ambitious) attempts at Italian food. Earlier today, New York's Michael Alan Connelly spoke with Nikki about Dale, her new project, and how Top Chef is good for business.

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Back of the House 

3/ 3/08

11:36 AM

‘Top Chef’ Contestants a Tame, Lame Bunch

nikki cascone and manuel treviso

Skeletons rattle in Nikki and Manuel's closets.Photo courtesy Bravo

Metromix does a nice job of fleshing out the backgrounds of the New York cheftestants on the upcoming season of Top Chef. But reading the not very scandalous “dirt” on these guys make us wonder if there weren’t five or ten or a thousand more interesting cooks in the city that could have been on the show. Manuel Trevino of Dos Caminos likes football? Whoa! Nikki Cascone of 24 Prince keeps Italian greyhounds? Quel scandal! Given the propensity of New York cooks for drinking, copulating, getting into street fights, and even hitting the dummy pipe, this all strikes us as kind of tame.

'Top Chef' Season Four: We’ve got the dirt on this year’s crop of NYC contestants [Metromix]
Related: What to Expect From the New ‘Top Chef’

Back of the House 

1/23/08

3:26 PM

‘Top Chef’ Recruits Seven NYC Toques

Cheftestants Lisa, Andrew, and Nimma.Photo courtesy Bravo

Top Chef has announced its new cheftestants, and we, like everybody else who got the press release, were delighted to see that there are even more NYC cooks than ever before, from restaurants including Mai House, Buddakan, Public, 24 Prince, and Dos Caminos. You can’t go by where they work, though: Among last season's rivals, Casey was a “personal chef,” whatever that means, and made it to finale, while poor Lia was at Jean Georges and got bounced halfway through the season. Still, we’re already thinking deeply about this crew — and looking forward to making fun of them in IM conversations a few months hence.

'Top Chef' Chicago Premieres in March [Bravo press release]

Related: Adam Platt Was Right About ‘Top Chef’ All Along

 

 

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