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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

‘Kitchen Nightmares’' Return to Café Hon Airs Friday

Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay checks in on the Hampden eatery after his visit last year.

Gordon Ramsay’s "Kitchen Nightmares'" return to Café Hon will air on Fox Friday night, according to the show’s website. Ramsay, a celebrity chef known for his obscenity laced rants, first visited the Hampden restaurant in 2011 after the eatery nearly went under following its owner, Denise Whiting, trademarking the colloquialism "hon." The controversy lead to a series of protests, boycotts and bad publicity for the café, and Whiting told Ramsay on the show she was on the verge of going out of business. But when the show concluded, after a makeover of the restaurant and its menu, and Whiting apologized for the trademark kerfuffle, all seemed to be right with the world. As of this afternoon Café Hon was still open and operating. Find out how …

SYLVAN FINKELSTEIN

6:49 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012

WHO CARES ABOUT CAFE HON.OVERPRICED FOOD IS GARBAGE AND THE HELP IS JUST AS BAD   more ›

Monday, September 3, 2012

Remembering Studs

The man who gave voice to work.

"I talked to Jimmy Cagney the same way I talked to the parking lot attendant. We're losing the passion of these people without even realizing it …"                                                                              Louis “Studs" Terkel, 1912-to-2008 I met Studs Terkel—author of the 1974 non-fiction classic "Working"—three times. The first time was over the summer of 1978 during a road trip to Chicago to see the Rolling Stones at Soldier Field. [I told the celebrated historian that it was more exciting to interview him than seeing the Glimmer Twins. He was tickled.] Some 20 years later, I saw Terkel twice in Baltimore in two days: a brief hello as he walked past The Bridge restaurant on Calvert Street with then-Sunpapers book …

Mark S.

6:36 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012

An incredible trip, Ralph. Hard to believe it was 34 years ago. Around Studs, no one felt ordinary. -Mark Szczybor   more ›

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