"America's Next Great Restaurant"

[BigWoof31]

I'm a bit of a foodie and thought I might start a thread for this new show.

For those of you who missed last night's premier, 30 contestants were widdled down to 10 after then made their pitch to Bobby Flay and the rest of the "investors."

After the first episode, its clear that the investors weren't too keen on the idea of building another Hot Wing restaurant. Ideas like a restaurant that specialized in Grilled Cheese, a Sports Wrap restaurant, a meat ball restaurant (Saucy Balls) and a Chicken and Waffle joint all qualified for the next round.

Seems like this will be an entertaining show!

 

[Folanator]

Excellent. I like the foodie shows. Anthony Bourdain is possibly my favorite show on TV. If I could hang out with anyone for a week he would be in my top five.

 

[Buckeye86]

I watched last night and thought the first show was a waste of time the way they formatted it. The beginning was way too much like American Idol for my taste. They brought people on they knew wouldn't make it just to laugh at their bad ideas. I don't enjoy that sort of thing at all.

Now that they have it down to 10 people with good ideas, however, I think it will be more enjoyable.

There are several seemingly great stories involved as well. In particular the unemployed auto-worker from Detroit.

 

[kinch]

Total foodie here.

At Grand Central on Friday on my way home they had a big "Automat" set up in the exhibition area for the show. All the food was free. Was this part of the episode?

 

[OneBuckeye]

A lot of the ideas were terrible. I like the Indian guy's idea the best. The grilled cheese guy should have tried google before he came up with his idea.

http://www.meltbarandgrilled.com/

This place is awesome, although not fast casual, I'm sure you could take their concept and make a fast casual experience based on their sammiches.

 

[BigWoof31]

The Asian lady and her idea about portion and calorie controlled menu has a lot of potential, as does the "Limbo" (heaven/hell) restaurant idea.

I feel confident that Saucy Balls won't last long and I don't like the idea of "Hicks" the tapa style BBQ restaurant.

 

[Chewbacca]

Chewy likes food. Chewy likes food shows.

The term foodie? Please stop.

 

[Saw31]

Wow. I like food too! 'specially when I'm hungry...