no reservations...

no shirt, no shoes, no service

ok now I see that Nipper has been having some people on the radio show that Wendy bought him....some chef type people....he talked to Gail Simmons on the phone..Gail is the big boobed chick judge on Top Chef....and then Nipper got chef Bradley Ogden and Michael DeRousse as guest hosts of the Nipper's Table Talk hour....

but as far as I'm concerned these people are bozos..food is food..you cook it, then you eat it..you don't analyse it, or treat it like it's part of the family..hey we just adopted a potato and an onion today, come over and say "hi"..

I do like Bourdain because he's funny and gets the relationship to food and place, but the other guys are just too silly for me...

now Chefs...I would hope that when Nipper invites you to be on his program, you do a little research and find out what a scumbag he is...a phony foodie... a labor law breaker...oooooo..I hate foodies and wine tasters.....bunch of useless freaks...

but I've noticed Ogden's name has been bouncing around from restaurant to restaurant so I figure something unyielding is following him...and he keeps running..what are you running from Bradley? too much scotch in ther butterscotch pudding in Vegas? get your kicks on Route/Root 246?? the Chumash were offended by the "Dead Injun" soup??

Celebrity chef Bradley Ogden and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash of Indians have parted ways.
Tribal spokeswoman Nerissa Sugars said Ogden’s contract as chef for Root 246 in downtown Solvang was not renewed, and his name will remain on the restaurant next to the tribe’s Hotel Corque on Alisal Road only through August.
Nerrisa Sugars?? hey she's the wife of Drew Sugars the County Sheriff spokesman and they both were anchors at KCOY years ago...hey..no wonder we get no crime reports about the casino!

an online review: I’m not surprised by the end of Ogden. While some have praised it for years, I could see the decline start 4 years ago at Uncork’d. One would think that a private dinner hosted by Alan Richman would have inspired the kitchen to present their absolutely best dishes in terms of technique, presentation and flavor. Sadly, that didn’t happen, even on a night when both Bradley and his son Bryan were in the kitchen. Nice guys who finished last on that night with poorly cooked lamb chops and uninspired desserts. It only seemed to go downhill from there. While the closing may be a sign of the times, (i.e., Caesar’s rush to sign Ramsay), in my view the slow decline in the kitchen didn’t help the Ogden bunch.

now, in my book, anyone who hosts a radio show with Nipper has gotta be a punk...and it looks like Bradley Ogden is a punk...apparently Ogden was arrested in 2008 for battery..on his girlfriend..in Vegas..and has a history of crime in Santa Barbara....

Celebrity chef files appeal in battery case
Bradley Ogden
Chef sentenced to 180 days in jail in incident involving girlfriend

REVIEW-JOURNAL
by Lawrence Mower
Posted: Nov. 13, 2008 10:00 p.m.
Local celebrity chef Bradley Ogden, who was convicted last month of misdemeanor battery in Las Vegas Municipal Court and sentenced to 180 days in jail, has filed an appeal in the case, court records show.
Ogden, 55, was sentenced Oct. 15 for grabbing his girlfriend and pushing her to the floor at the Suncoast in 2006, according to court records.
Ogden has had previous run-ins with police over domestic violence with the same girlfriend, records show.

In August he was arrested by Santa Barbara County, Calif., sheriff's deputies for robbery and domestic violence, according to the incident report.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/34385864.html

robbery and domestic violence..sweeeet!! geez what'd she do Brad.... burn the toast??