Pop star and actress Selena Gomez is taking her culinary skills out of her home kitchen and into some of Los Angeles’s top restaurants in an all-new Food Network series ‘Selena + Restaurant’. In this article we talk about: Selena Gomez Takes On LA’s Food Scene in ‘Selena + Restaurant’.
After finding huge success with her at-home cooking show ‘Selena + Chef’ and the holiday follow up ‘Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays’, Selena is ready for a new challenge – cooking alongside the top chefs at LA’s hottest restaurants.
In each of the six episodes, Selena and her best friend Raquelle Stevens will enter the kitchens of an acclaimed LA restaurant, where they will learn from and be tested by the executive chefs. Their goal is to create a dish that’s good enough to actually make it onto the real restaurant’s menu.
The Restaurants and Chefs Featured
Some of the most popular and award-winning restaurants and chefs in LA will be featured on ‘Selena + Restaurant’, including:
- Cut Steakhouse – Wolfgang Puck
- Ms. Chi – Shirley Chung
- Lemon Grove – Marcel Vigneron
- Moo’s Craft Barbecue – Andrew and Michelle Muñoz
- Girl & the Goat – Stephanie Izard
- Alta – Keith Corbin
In addition to the cooking challenges, each chef will highlight a charity that is important to them in their episode. All of the featured charities will receive a donation from the show to help support their cause.
Selena’s Culinary Journey
Over the past four years, fans have watched Selena’s cooking skills improve through her at-home virtual cooking shows. As she moves into real restaurant kitchens, she’ll find out if cooking in-person has helped elevate her talents.
“After cooking mostly virtually from my kitchen with some of the best chefs for the last four years, I was thrilled to step into their world,” said Selena about her restaurant adventures.
Betsy Ayala from Warner Bros. talked about Selena’s culinary journey from her home kitchen to restaurant-quality cooking, saying: “Selena’s culinary journey has riveted viewers from day one as she has elevated her kitchen skills on her Emmy-nominated series, Selena + Chef. Now, out of the comfort of her home kitchen, but with her best friend for support, Selena’s graduation to the big leagues offers a natural progression of her culinary education as this superstar shows what she can do in a restaurant environment.”
How to Watch ‘Selena + Restaurant’
You can catch the first two episodes of ‘Selena + Restaurant‘ on Food Network on Thursday, May 9th at 7pm and 7:30pm ET/PT. The full 6-episode season will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
The show is produced by July Moon Productions, with Selena Gomez executive producing. It’s also executive produced by Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman for The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC), showrunner Shauna Minoprio, and Melissa Stokes.
With Selena moving into professional restaurant kitchens, her cooking skills will be put to the ultimate test. Tune in on May 9th for the start of an all-new culinary adventure on ‘Selena + Restaurant’! I sincerely hope you like reading this “Selena Gomez Takes On LA’s Food Scene in ‘Selena + Restaurant’ – Can She Handle the Heat?” article.