Kind of a he said - she said, but Cat’s coming across as the much more questionable here. It’s an aside but from what I see of her, she’s pretty weak within the Iron Chef realm.
Btw, I just happened to have started watching “Chef’s Table” on Netflix. It isn’t great, and some of the segments are definitely better than others, but the episode on Achatz was really interesting. He is quite the culinary mind.
Yeah and in that episode Achatz casts some shade on Charlie Trotter, who is mentioned by Cat Cora in her social media response. Maybe a deeper issue at work, but it sounds like her assistant messed up or didn’t communicate the date of the reservation, and she tried to play the star power card.
Charlie was a bit of a jerk in high school. he and his “gang” known as “the danger boys” would come to my sister’s keg parties (it was the ‘70’s) and do mean things like kick our pug and climb the side of our house.
Charlie was a brilliant chef, he really created fine dining in Chicago. That being said he was difficult to work for/with.(putting it nicely)
A long time ago you could make a donation to his charity and work 1 night in the kitchen of his restaurant… which I did. I was able to witness him interact with his team 1st hand.
There is a Cat Cora named restaurant in one of the SFO terminals. Does that help? I researched this once before and recall being somewhat unimpressed with her resume. In general it seems the American iron chefs were (in general) a departure from the credibility of the asian show. (Morimoto, etc)
Cat has opened more than 18 restaurants across the United States and globally, highlighting her platform on health, wellness and sustainability.
Cat Cora’s Kitchen, located in numerous airport locations throughout the U.S., Cat Cora’s Taproom located in the Detroit Metro Airport, Ocean by Cat Cora, an award-winning restaurant in Singapore, Kouzzina by Cat Cora at Disney World, CCQ at Macy’s, Postino in San Francisco’s East Bay, Mesa Burger which can be found in Santa Barbara, and Olilo by Cat Cora and Wicked Eats by Cat Cora have over 500 pop-ups across the country.
She worked at Postino in Lafayette, CA, until about 15 years ago. I know a few people who worked with her. They said she could be difficult. Imagine that, a difficult chef.