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unusual facts about The Restaurant


Little Clarendon Street

The Porters Bar & Restaurant, formerly at 1–2 Little Clarendon Street and now occupied by Strada, appeared in the BBC television programme The Restaurant.


Showhouse

Presented by the interior architect Neville Knott, it is a creation of Vision Independent Productions, responsible for the popular television shows, The Restaurant and Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run.


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Alex Hitz

After selling the restaurant and inspired by his step-father’s 1991 Kennedy Center Honor, Hitz moved to New York City and co-produced several Broadway shows, including Triumph of Love (1997) and the revival of The Sound of Music (1998), as well as the revival of On the Town in Central Park with the New York Public Theater.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Andrés Baiz

Satan is the first feature Baiz released in June 2007, starring Mexican actor Damián Alcázar, is based on the book by Mario Mendoza, which in turn is based on the events at the restaurant where the Pozzeto Bogota 5 December 1986, a veteran of the Vietnam War known as Campo Elias Delgado massacred several people who were on the scene after murdering his mother.

Brennan Family Restaurants

In 1993, John Grisham's book-to-movie, "The Firm" featured Owen Brennan's in a business lunch meeting between Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman in cocktail area of the restaurant.

Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant

Jack Ruby was a regular at the restaurant and ate there the night before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald.

Steve Palermo, American League umpire who was partially paralyzed by a gunshot wound while apprehending two armed robbers outside the restaurant on July 7, 1991.

Cecilia Chiang

One day, Vic Bergeron (founder of Trader Vic's) came to the restaurant with Herb Caen, who immediately began to popularize the restaurant in his newspaper column.

Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare

Jean-Luc Naret, who directs the Michelin Guide, and his wife came in the restaurant and were surprised at what they saw.

Christen Sveaas

A collector of art and wine, he has also invested in horse gallop racing and owned the restaurant Bagatelle.

Con Lo Que Cuenta Este País

The restaurant was located in an alley corner, and Chevy would always arrive in his flamboyant Volkswagen Beetle listening to loud music.

Deep Fried and Minty Fresh

Brass finds evidence that "Elizabeth Martin" is an assumed name, while Wendy finds Gary, a former drug addict, is in the system—and that his epithelials were in a razor found at the restaurant, indicating he was the one living in the kitchen.

Eddie Vitch

In 1931, he approached the Brown Derby owner Robert H. Cobb and offered to draw caricatures of the famous patrons who dinned at the restaurant.

Emerging Capital Partners

Nairobi Java House, Kenya’s leading café and casual dining restaurant operator, marks the first private equity deal in the restaurant sector in East Africa.

Forest Park Hotel

In 1983, restaurateur Harold Butler, founder of the restaurant chain Denny's, bought the Forest Park Hotel and performed $7 million in renovations.

George Cohon

It accepted only Russian rubles, not hard currency, and in the early days, the line to enter the restaurant could be several hours long.

Grosvenor House Hotel

Richard Corrigan rents space within the hotel and runs the restaurant Corrigan's Mayfair.

Hacienda Arms Apartments

The restaurant Katana, co-owned by Ryan Seacrest and Tori Spelling and described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts," also operates at the building.

Jamie's Kitchen Australia

Prior to the opening of the restaurant, initial training of the young apprentice chefs took place at Box Hill Institute of TAFE.

Jean-François Piège

After having worked with famous other chefs for several years (Bruno Cirino, Yves Camdeborde, Christian Constant, Alain Ducasse), he became the chef of the restaurant Les Ambassadeurs at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, not hesitating on mixing the codes of the palace with popular cuisine.

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

The restaurant was redesigned by Robin De Groot for the television program Restaurant Makeover, completely transforming the environment and menu to the delight of Niagara Falls.

Kowloon Restaurant

After three generations of ownership by the same family the restaurant has grown several times and a large range of Cantonese, Szechuan, Sushi, Polynesian, Japanese, and Thai cuisines are served in several themed dining rooms and lounges.

Laura Day

In 2006, Day came out with Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want, which launched with a book party at the restaurant Bette co-hosted by actress Uma Thurman, Ryan Kavanaugh and agent Kevin Huvane, which Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher attended.

Manu Feildel

Manu Feildel (born 1974) is a French celebrity chef, living in Australia, most widely known for his participation in Australia's cookery competition programs Ready Steady Cook, MasterChef Australia and My Kitchen Rules although he also achieved a solid reputation as a head chef at the restaurant Bilson's before moving to open his own restaurant, Manu at L'Étoile, in 2009.

McGown's Pass Tavern

During the Fassett Investigation in 1890, McCann testified that he lost his lease to the tavern because he refused to provide Croker, Grant and their political associates with free entertainment; in retaliation for which Croker and Grant began to bad-mouth the restaurant as a disreputable house patronized by lowlifes.

North Corbin, Kentucky

The Harland Sanders Café and Museum, the restaurant where Colonel Harland Sanders developed the fried chicken recipe that would later become famous as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is located in the Laurel County portion of North Corbin.

Paul Rankin

In 1989 Paul Rankin changed the face of culinary Northern Ireland when he opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in the country.

Peregrine Financial Group

On July 27 attorneys for the 1970s rock band The Knack sent a cease and desist letter to Wasendorf and his already shut Italian restaurant MyVerona in Cedar Falls, Iowa, demanding he stop using a recording of the band's smash hit "My Sharona" in the restaurant's advertising.

Pickup Man

In 2005, a rewritten version of "Pickup Man" was used in television commercials for the restaurant chain Applebee's, to promote their "Carside To Go" service.

Randy Wayne White

A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he currently lives on Pine Island, Florida, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill on nearby Sanibel Island.

Rasmus Kofoed

In 2010 the restaurant re-opened in one of the office towers of Parken Stadium, a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (Inner Østerbro) district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Restaurant Empire II

The player controls the kind of cuisine the restaurant serves (American, French, Italian, German).

Restaurant Miniature Buffet

The Restaurant Miniature Buffet (or RMB) is a British Railways Mark 1 railway coach.

Reuben's Restaurant

The restaurant's menu included sandwiches named for celebrities; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra both had sandwiches named for them.

Rodney Pocceschi

In the evening of June 23, 2003, Christina Marie Tatem, an 18-year-old IHOP employee, let two men into the back door of the restaurant: her boyfriend and convicted felon LeKeith Devon Speller, 21, and his accomplice Shawn Anthony Zhe.

Roots Club

The restaurant was brought to world attention by British journalist Tom Gross and by the Israeli Government Press Office.

Seligman, Arizona

Author, Route 66 historian and Cars voice actor Michael Wallis covers the history of the restaurant in his book, Route 66: The Mother Road.

Small Time Crooks

Ray's wife Frenchy (Tracey Ullman) covers what they are doing by selling cookies from the restaurant.

Spatz

It was operated by two Canadians, Karen Hansson (Jennifer Calvert), Spatz International's European Co-ordinator, and Thomas "TJ" Strickland (Paul Michael), the restaurant's manager.

Sümer Tilmaç

After the restaurant in Istanbul was closed; he is sparing his time to his farm in Serik, Antalya (Melek's Farm) where he and his wife serves local Cuisine along with local arts to visitors.

The Original Pancake House

On one occasion he conducted an interview in the restaurant with famous anchorman Walter Jacobson.

The Pizza Company

In 2004, The Pizza Company began to expand and franchise internationally and today the restaurant has franchises in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Laos, China and Bahrain.

The Ryland Inn

In 2000 Craig Shelton won the James Beard Mid-Atlantic region top prize for the restaurant.

Thelma Todd

At the restaurant, she had had a brief but unpleasant exchange with her ex-husband, Pat DiCicco.

Tony Packo's Cafe

When actor Burt Reynolds visited Toledo in 1972, he made a stop at the restaurant on the suggestion of Tony's daughter, Nancy.

Valeri Bure

Following his retirement, Bure's wife, Candace, announced on her website that the couple would be opening a restaurant, "The Milk and Honey Café", in Pembroke Pines, Florida in April 2007; the restaurant later closed.

Village Diner

Manufacturers offered prefabricated models with lessons in management, giving entrepreneurs the chance to get into the restaurant business with less capital than it usually took.

Vorschmack

The restaurant Savoy at the top floor of one of the buildings around the Esplanadi in central Helsinki is famous for its Vorschmack.

Výtopna

From the very beginning the restaurant was conceived as a franchise project, in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia - regions of the Czech Republic.