The Restaurant Guys' Regulars
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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.
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The Restaurant Guys' Regulars
Stripper Food, Bachelor Parties & Other Bad Ideas | Inside Track
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The Restaurant Guys' Regulars
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Why This Episode Matters
- A Real Housewives of New Jersey cookbook introduces one particularly memorable piece of dietary advice: avoid “stripper food.”
- “Juicy bits from Joe” require Mark to summon his Nutley Italian accent. Things deteriorate from there.
- A New York Times story about changing bachelor parties sparks a conversation about great food, excessive drinking and what actually makes a night memorable.
- Then come the restaurant stories: security deposits, chicken suits, and three unexpected strippers.
The Conversation
Mark Pascal and Francis Schott find the ridiculous side of food, restaurants and the ways people celebrate.
First, a cookbook associated with The Real Housewives of New Jersey offers some reasonable food advice and one rule Mark and Francis are unlikely to forget: never eat anything that could also be a stripper’s name. Cookie, Candy and Cupcake quickly lead to Bambi, Bunny and the question of what Michael Pollan would make of all this.
Then a story about increasingly food-focused bachelor parties gets them talking about why a great meal might be more memorable than the traditional blowout. Naturally, this leads to their own restaurant experience including a three-page rulebook that clearly existed for a reason and a bachelor party that somehow acquired three strippers from elsewhere in the building.
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