“The inaugural Manhattan Beach Food & Wine, Southern California’s newest world-class Culinary Festival, is coming the evenings of Friday, October 11th and Saturday, October 12th in Manhattan Village. The Festival features an all-star lineup of 50 of the Best Chefs in North America! The Event Host Chef is Neal Fraser of Redbird and Vibiana in Downtown Los Angeles. The local culinary ambassadors are Chef David LeFevre of Fishing with Dynamite, MB Post, The Arthur J and AttaGirl, and Sherry Yard of Bakery by the Yard. Founder Shelby Russell joins us with all the delectable specifics. Thereafter Event Host Chef Neal Fraser is our guest with more of the culinary perspective.”
“Susan Spicer, the acclaimed New Orleans culinarian, began her cooking career in New Orleans as an apprentice to Chef Daniel Bonnot at the Louis XVI Restaurant in 1979. Her resume includes staging with Chef Roland Durand in Paris, extensive travel in Europe and California, as well as stints as chef at Savoire Faire and the Bistro at Maison de Ville in New Orleans. She and Regina Keever partnered together to open the celebrated Bayona in the French Quarter in the spring of 1990. With solid support from local diners and critics, Bayona soon earned national attention, countless awards and has been featured in numerous publications. Susan received the 1993 James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Southeast. In 2010 she launched Mondo, a casual, family-style restaurant which opened in Chef Spicer’s neighborhood of Lakeview. (It was sold in 2019.) In October 2016 she then launched her third restaurant, Rosedale, a neighborhood joint in a unique and historic building that serves her own style of Louisiana home cooking. In the Spring of 2019, a new version of Mondo joined other great New Orleans restaurants in the new terminals at Louis Armstrong International Airport.” Susan takes a break from her busy kitchens to join us.
“Brendan Collins, the new executive chef for Innovative Dining Group’s BOA Steakhouse, is best known in Los Angeles as the Chef-Owner of celebrated restaurants Waterloo & City, Larry’s, Fia, and Market Tavern where he intertwined his British culinary background with California’s bountiful produce, seducing a lively clientele.
Collins’ early background includes accolades and Michelin Stars spanning from London’s Oxo Tower Restaurant to Josiah Citrin’s Melisse in Los Angeles. Now at BOA Steakhouse, Collins' reputation for deft execution, rich flavors, and playful dishes perfect for gathering, promises to elaborate on restaurateurs’ Lee Maen and Philip Cummins’s vision for the concept.” Chef Brendan Collins is our guest to update the menu offerings at BOA Steakhouse.
Our own Chef Andrew Gruel, the menu-maker behind the full-service Calico Fish House (in the Sunset Beach area of Huntington Beach) provides another timely and informative “Ask the Chef” segment where he responds to listeners’ thoughtful inquiries. Chef Andrew is an unabashed fan of asparagus. In his professional opinion it’s the best vegetable in the garden. Chef Andrew joins us with his creative tips on cooking and preparing asparagus.
All of this and heaping helpings of extra deliciousness on this week’s not-to-miss show!
Good morning Southern California and welcome. If you're food obsessed you've come to the right place. Join us for the next two hours and you won't go away hungry. One of the first American culinary icons Julia Child said people who love to eat are always the best people. We agree. Live from the AMA 30K LAA studios at Angel Stadium and Anaheim, The SoCal Restaurant Show is on the air. Good morning and welcome back. It is The SoCal Restaurant Show and we're here with you every Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until 12 noon right here on AMA 30K LAA the home of Angels Baseball 2024 and you can also catch us on the AMA 30K LAA Angels app. I'm Andy Harris the executive producer and co-host of the show. Glad to be here. Thanks for sharing part of your weekend with us. We do appreciate it. Hopefully you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend holiday. The halos are on the road. They're playing the Texas Rangers. It's the third game in a four-game set with them. My colleague Chef Andrew Grull of the newly opened Calico Fish House in the Sunset Beach area of Huntington Beach and boy did he have a Labor Day weekend in Huntington Beach. We'll be joining us a little later in the show with his usual Ask the Chef segment and because it still is lobster season and everybody loves a good lobster roll. There are variations on the lobster roll. It can be served cold. It can be served hot. Given that Chef Andrew is a noted authority on all things seafood and particularly lobster, he'll be giving us the update on what the varieties are. Again we do appreciate you tuning in. Do keep up with us on social media. We're on all the platforms. What we try to do there is just give you the listener more information that connects Saturdays. Certainly visuals, obviously food and restaurants. We'd like to think that we paint a pretty good word portrait of what's going on but actually being able to see the interior of these restaurants and also some of the signature menu items just kind of brings it all a bit more to life. So websites easy at SoCalRestaurantShow.com. Facebook is SoCalRestaurantShow. Send us a tweet or an X if you like at SoCal Restaurant and as we love to say for the very best in provocative food imagery Instagram to @SoCalRestaurantShow and I'm happy to say that Derek is in technical excellence with us this morning so good morning Derek and we are enthusiastically presented each and every week by Melissa's World Variety Produce. One little program note about an upcoming event. We followed Chef Bill Bracken of Bracken's Kitchen. Kitchen's for many many years on the SoCal Restaurant Show. Chef Bill is a former fine dining chef that wanted to do something a little different with his life and his culinary acumen and that was serve the hungry and also mentor disadvantaged young people that might want to pursue a career in the culinary arts and do better. So he founded Bracken's Kitchen. They have expanded. They've moved once. They're in a much larger facility now and of course going with being helpful to the community and feeding hungry people and people in need. Part of what Bracken's Kitchen's mission is is every year they need to raise money. So the big annual fund raising event they do is called the Hungry Games and this year will be the seventh edition of the Hunger Games. So actually Hungry Games and it is the Hungry Games 7.0 this year that is happening next week on Thursday, September 12th and for this year 12 local chefs will be competing for the title of Hungry Games champion and what's really fun is the guests get to act as judges. Now if you know anything about chefs you know that these are very competitive folks. So while this is all for a worthy cause and believe me Bracken's Kitchen is a very worthy cause the chefs that are competing for the title of Hungry Games champion they're in it to win it. So from the guest point of view it is going to be a very entertaining evening a very fulfilling evening but also an evening of great food and beverage. So of course in addition to all these wonderful food stations there is going to be craft beer, premium wine, high-end coffee, decadent desserts and there's even live musical entertainment with the pinch me band they'll be performing throughout the evening. So I really invite all of our listeners to take a look at Hungry Games 7.0 it will be selling out the website for all information to support Bracken's Kitchen again a very worthy cause is bracken's kitchen.org that's B-R-A-C-K-E-N-S-K-I-T-C-H-E-N.org and again hustle up because it is next Thursday September the 12th. As usual we have a jam-packed show for you this morning we're going to be introducing our listeners to a wonderful new high-end food festival that is coming up in Manhattan Beach on the evenings of Friday October 11th and Saturday October 12th called Manhattan Beach Food and Wine. Each night 25 celebrated chefs will be presenting taste-sized samples from their various menus and the lineup is truly stellar. The host chef is our own Neal Frazier of Redbird and Viviana going to be a great event. Then we're off to catch up with one of the former chefs in New Orleans, Susan Spicer. It is now the 34th year of her signature restaurant by Ona and then we will conclude with chef Brendan Collins who is now the executive chef for Boa Dining, our Boa steakhouse and no stranger to the SoCal restaurant show. You are listening to the SoCal restaurant show when we return. It is the preview of Manhattan Beach Food and Wine. We're proudly presented by Melissa's World Variety Produce. We'll be right back. AMA 30. [Music]
