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The plural would be "spaghi," which is the beginning of "spaghetti", and suggests that pasta is on the menu. [1] The first Spago location opened in 1982, on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, with Mark Peel as chef de cuisine under Puck. The second Spago restaurant opened at The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, on the Las Vegas Strip in
Wolfgang Puck, in 1980 and 1981, was preparing to open the restaurant that would make him famous, Spago, in West Hollywood, California. Initially conceived as a pizzeria, Spago's was modeled after the upstairs cafe at Chez Panisse. [4] [10] He was so impressed with the pizza LaDou had made for him at Prego, he hired LaDou as head pizza chef.
In 1993, Spago Hollywood was inducted into the Nation's Restaurant News Fine Dining Hall of Fame. [15] The next year it received the James Beard Restaurant of the Year Award. In 2002, Puck received the 2001–2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Service Show, Wolfgang Puck. [16]
[2] [3] Ed LaDou was the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in Los Angeles. [4] He also developed the first menu for the American chain restaurant California Pizza Kitchen. [4] The invention of the California-style pizza begins with a Berkeley, California, pizza restaurant, Chez Panisse, and its owner, Alice Waters. [5]
When Spago Beverly Hills, also designed by Lazaroff, opened in 1997, Los Angeles Times restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila called it "spectacular," saying "The site of the old Bistro Garden has been entirely reinvented by designer Barbara Lazaroff, Puck’s wife and partner, and architect Stephen Jones."
Stars was a landmark restaurant in San Francisco, California, [1] from 1984 through 1999. Along with Spago, Michael's and Chez Panisse, it is considered one of the birthplaces of California cuisine, New American cuisine and the institution of the celebrity chef.
California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) is an American casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, United States. [4] [5] California Pizza Kitchen introduced and popularized BBQ Chicken Pizza. [6]
Antonia Marie Lofaso (born 1976) [1] is an American celebrity chef and restaurateur. She has appeared on the reality television shows Top Chef, Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen and Restaurant Startup, among others.