The Village Voice, April 28th, 2004
THE RESTAURANT
Mondays at 10 on NBC
THE HARD ROCCO CAFE
Can The Restaurant survive its star chef's celebrity lifestyle and still turn a tasty profit?
Rocco DiSpirito isn't my type. He flirted and preened like a Chippendales dancer in a chef's hat all through The Restaurant, last year's reality series documenting the launch of his Italian restaurant, Rocco's on 22nd. In pursuit of Martha-style synergy, he quickly graduated from charismatic foodie to Vegas-style showman. Most of the program's drama emanated from the artificially accelerated deadline set up by financier Jeffrey Chodorow: Open...
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