So when this opportunity came up I was like, let’s do this for the fans.”įavreau finally got his restaurant with Choi. “Over the years it’s happened like hundreds of times. He noticed the show had a second life during COVID lockdowns, with many streaming the series during quarantine. “I’m in Vegas like four times a month and people come to Best Friend and stop me and explain how much the “Chef Show” meant to them,” Choi says. It’s three minutes before service begins, and Roy Choi is calmly walking around his immaculate, open kitchen, carrying a deli cup full of rattling plastic black spoons.

They filmed two seasons.įood Roy Choi wants to be your new best friend in Vegas In 2019, Favreau and Choi launched “The Chef Show” on Netflix, a travel and cooking show that featured the two cooking with various friends around the country. He and Favreau continued to find ways to collaborate and work together. style of Korean food, at the Park MGM hotel. In 2018, Choi opened Best Friend, a restaurant that pays homage to his Kogi BBQ trucks and his distinct L.A. “Also, for me with Jon, the most important thing was our friendship.”Īfter the Cubano pop-up, Favreau would look at spaces and hint at opening a restaurant, but Choi refused. “It took so long to open something because you know the restaurant business, and especially the celebrity restaurant never ends up turning out the way maybe actors or producers want them to because they end up being brought down to reality with the daily grind of a restaurant,” Choi says. “I would say to Roy, ‘Hey, we should do a restaurant.’” “I always wished we could do something more permanent,” Favreau says during a recent call with he and Choi.

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