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The Restaurant Guys is one of the original food and wine podcasts, launched in 2005 by restaurateurs Mark Pascal and Francis Schott.
With roots as a daily radio show, the podcast features in-depth conversations with chefs, bartenders, winemakers, authors, and hospitality professionals—offering the inside track on food, cocktails, wine, and restaurant culture.
New episodes and vintage conversations because the best stories, like the best bottles, age well. Expect insightful, opinionated, and entertaining conversations about food, wine, and the finer things in life.
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The Restaurant Guys' Regulars
Jose Garces: A Philadelphia Story
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The Restaurant Guys' Regulars
Exclusive access to bonus episodes!The Banter
The Guys talk about fast food and the Super Size Me guy, Morgan Spurlock, a former guest on the show whose work impacted their lives.
The Conversation
The Restaurant Guys catch up with Chef Jose Garces in his busy kitchen to discuss his story from Spain to New York to Philadelphia. Chef and The Guys both opened up restaurants in October 2005 named after their grandmothers!
The Inside Track
The Guys and Chef Garces have crossed paths over the past several decades and held friends in common, but never met.
“I think it was a turning point for me as a chef, I realized then that I could drive traffic with just consistent food, consistent, fresh, delicious food day in and day out,” Chef Jose Garces on The Restaurant Guys 2024
Bio
Chef Jose Garces is known as a leading culinary authority of Spanish and Latin-American food from the Spanish tapas at Amada, his first restaurant, to the playful Japanese street food at Okatshe in Atlantic City, Chef Garces continually pushes the boundaries of culinary excellence.
To help provide ongoing and actionable assistance to the immigrant community, Chef Garces co-founded The Garces Foundation in 2011. The Garces Foundation provides services, including community health days, English language skills classes, and a providing food supplies to the food insecure.
Chef Garces won James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic as well as the title Iron Chef.
He is the author of two cookbooks, Latin Evolution and The Latin Road Home
Info
Chef’s Projects
www.chefgarces.com
Chef’s Restaurants
https://garcesgroup.com/
Morgan Spurlock’s Book & Movie
Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock
Super Size Me
Jamon Iberico de Bellota
https://www.tienda.com/
Our Places
Stage Left Steak
https://www.stageleft.com/
Catherine Lombardi Restaurant
https://www.catherinelombardi.com/
Stage Left Wineshop
https://www.stageleftwineshop.com/
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