Why are celebrities fond of culinary affairs? Some follow fashion, because now in the bohemian environment is considered prestigious to have their own establishment of the catering or winery. Others, based on the fact that people always want to eat, consider such a business win-win. But there are also those who simply love to eat delicious and suggests to enjoy their favorite dishes to everyone. The best example of such passion is Robert de Niro. He opened his first restaurant in Manhattan, in a building where there was a factory for the production of coffee. The interior was stylized under the style of the middle of the last century, and the walls were decorated with paintings written by the father of the actor, Robert de Niro-senior, famous sculptor and an artist-abstractionist. It is consistently in the menu only those Italian dishes, which prefers the artist itself. (He could not come to mind that some other kitchen could pass it, except for Italian.) But about twenty years ago in Beverly Hills Star Cinema became acquainted with the famous Cook Nobu Matsuhis. Having tried the masterpieces prepared by this wizard, de Niro fell in love with Japanese culinary art and together with Matsukhis became the owner of the worldwide restaurant chain. It is noteworthy that the business partnership with Nobu soon turned into friendship. It is said that it was on the protection of de Niro, a well-known cook starred in the films "Casino" and "Memoirs of Geisha". By the way, when the actor was asked why he prefers exactly to the culinary business, he replied: "I like a person who loves delicious and good to eat, I know how delicious and well feed others."
He knows a sense in cooking and Tina Kandelaki. Love for Georgian cuisine subscribed to the opening of the restaurant. It is said that the menu is personally typical, and most dishes are cooked by the recipes of her mom. Also, the fair put a hand to the creation of an interior resembling an old Tbilisi. Many decor elements, such as a walker and manual jugs, were brought from Georgia. It is rumored that there are rare instances among the carpets. "The restaurant is my hobby. I wanted to show Muscovites true Georgian cuisine and hospitality, "shared with his fans through the Internet Tina. A distinctive feature of this institution is the presence of low-calorie dishes in the menu, since the hostess understands the suffering of ladies behind the figure, and I am sure that you can lose weight too taste.
Often the restaurant is a reflection of the character of star owners. So, for example, Sandra Bullock, being a protector of the environment, for a couple with his sister Gesina opened in Texas Bistro, which is called the press most environmentally friendly in the world. All products are high quality, natural, without preservatives. Even the dishes in the cafe are also environmentally friendly - it is made of sugar cane, and not from plastic and glass. In this restaurant, you can taste cakes and cakes, the recipes of which were developed by the Sandra itself. This is not surprising, because in its first formation the owner of Oscar is a confectioner baker. According to local residents, on the festive days the actress, it happens, it is satisfied with the demonstration competitions with the chef: which of them two will quickly prepare some sweet dish. Often the winner is the owner of the restaurant. As the sister of the artist, "Speed - Her Konk".
Sandra Bullock. Photo: Rex Features / fotodom.ru.
Points of catering belonging to Johnny Deppa also correspond to his hooligan character. The first club-restaurant Depp opened at the beginning of the nineties. He bought the Central Bar, which was one of Los Angeles's attractions, since in the thirties of the last century owned Mafiosa Laki Luciano, no less well known than Al Capon. The actor completely changed the inner entourage bar: designed it in black and green tones and equipped with modern appliances and furniture. Only the scene remained from the old times - as a tribute to the great musicians who performed on it. Together with the situation, the name has changed: Johnny will make his own institution "Room Vajuki." This club-restaurant visited only the informal public, so the menu did not pay much attention. We can say that the set of dishes was standard, as in any American eatery. And since 1993, the club has gained bad fame, after the "Wayuki Rooms" died from an overdose Actor River Phoenix. They were also those who accused Depp's that he contains drug breeding. At one time, the actor was thinking to close the institution, but refused this intention. A couple of years later, Johnny on the pays with Sean Penn and Mick Hacknell opened a restaurant in Paris. It is concerned that the police are often visited here, but this is a great popularity among Parisians and tourists. A distinctive feature of Depp's restaurants is the lack of vegetarian dishes. Johnny himself, a lovers of Fastfud and meat delicacies, believes that it is offensive to offer visitors to his restaurant that you will not eat yourself.
Jointly hidden
The opening of restaurants on the pays in the actors is very common. As an example, a network of restaurants of Tibetan cuisine, owned by equal shares, by the same Johnny Depp, Sean Penna and joining John Malkovich joining them. Business flourishes. Domestic stars are no exception: For several years now, an art cafe is working in the center of Moscow, the owners of which is the Trinity of Russian Musicians - Valery Meladze, Andrei Makarevich and Stas Namin. Many legends are connected with this place. One of them states that the pink "Cadillac" of the fifties of the last century, adorning the bar, was presented to the owners by the Quentin Tarantino himself. It is difficult to say, the myth is or a job, is indisputable one thing: thanks to the unanimity of the three star owners art cafe is very popular.
Johnny Depp. Photo: Startracks photo / fotodom.ru.
But it also happens that the creation of a restaurant leads to the collapse of the creative union and strong friendship. This happened with the quartet of Russian "cops" from the series "Streets of broken lanterns". At the end of 2000, folk favorites decided to open a restaurant. At first, everything was peacefully, but it was worth walking to the case, as a relationship between actors spoiled. It was rumored that the enthusiasm of Alexey Nilova, Sergey Celine was busy with other affairs and he had no time for the restaurant, so as a result, the general project was embodied by Alexander Polovtsev and Mikhail Trukhin. The opening of the restaurant took place in July 2001. One of the chips of the institution became a menu with unusual names of dishes: "Alibi", "under cover", "innocent victim", "pike perch with political". Success gave rise to a conflict inside inseparable four days: on the one hand - Polovtsy and Trukhin, on the other - the remaining non-affairs of Celine and Nilov. There was no agreement for yesterday's friends, the problems increased, and after two years later there was a final gap. Sergey Celine and Alexey Nilov even left the series "Streets of broken lanterns" to another project - "Opera. Chronicles of the slaughter department. " And now, after almost ten years, the relationship between the former partners is polite-cool. Although, in contrast to this story, the example of Hollywood stars shows that the restaurant business can combine and irreconcilable enemies. The long-term hostility of the two stars of Hollywood - Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - no secret to anyone. After years, Arnie in an interview and even in his autobiographical book recognizes that he was the culprit of the conflict. It turns out that the actor envy the popularity and demands of Stallone and tried to achieve the same star level. But I was worth the Schwartz to rise to the cherished step, like Rambo, who also did not sit on the spot, had already gained a new height. Frustrated Arnie began to allow himself unilent statements to succeeding in the sense of God, many of the particularly evil quotes fell into the press, and Stallone, naturally, answered her offender in non-herbal expressions. Picking lasted for several years, and it seemed to reconcile them. But not in vain the press believes that Bruce Willis is all over the shoulder. It was he who took over the role of peacemaker. For the beginning, Bruce offered his friend Stallone a joint business - a network of restaurants, however, Hitsre Willis warned that among the shareholders, in addition to him, and Demi Moore, there will be another actor. The name of the fourth "player" was not prudently announced, and Sylvester agreed. The same sentence "Strong Oreshk" and Schwarzenegger, however, in this case, the participation of Stallone in business was not hiddenKnowing the character of Iron Arni, Willis calculated that he, not wanting to give the little to something in something, would certainly be in a lot. So there were two enemy in one bundle. Each of the shareholders was directly involved in creating a new restaurant brand. In the course of the joint work on this project, the relationship between the Slary and Arnie has improved and from the hostile turned into the tolerant, and then turned into a friendly one at all. Now these are two dusty friends who have forgotten about previous perennial swadors.
Cases are known when stars are walking in the restaurants who are passionate about the example of their friends. Gerard Depardieu is famous for his homeland as a restaurant and winemaker. The artist so caught fire the idea of his first own restaurant, which was interested in this project and Carol Beech, which at that time was his civil wife. True, in addition to the desire, Gerard had also knowledge, how to conduct this business. Therefore, in the joint venture of the spouses, the chapter was a husband, and Karol remained in the position of an active helper. When the marriage collapsed, Cheta did not share the restaurant, recognizing that this is a common favorite thing. At the same time, Depardieu became interested in winemaking, and so that he infected his passion and a former spouse, and his friend Pierre Rishar. But Gerard did not take them into a fraction. And helped with the acquisition of promising vineyards and advised how to equip winery. Soon the actor opened another restaurant specializing in exquisite seafood dishes.
Christopher Lambert also did not resist the departer of the Depardieu and the catering. But unlike his colleague, the legendary Highlander not only opened the network of restaurants, but also engaged in the production of food on an industrial scale. His wine-making business is small, but at the same time the products with the winery of the actor can be purchased quite inexpensively - for about fifteen euros per bottle.
In the footsteps of his colleague, Antonio Banderas followed. He opened the restaurant of Andalusian cuisine. The affairs of the institution went well, but Antonio has lost interest in this type of activity and transferred the brars of the board of the Spanish company specializing in the restaurant business. But the winemaking Banderas did not leave. On the contrary, like Gerard Depardieu, Antonio tries to personally follow the entire wine production process. And now his company produces up to one and a half million bottles per year. This is considered a good result, because Banderas himself in this business is just two and a half years. It's only the beginning!
His chip
Typically, the stars are creatively suitable for creating a registered social point, inventing their highlight, which is not from others. So, the restaurant of two friends - Ivan Urgant and Alexander Tsecalo - made in the form of a greenhouse, decor elements are exotic plants, flowers and birds flying in the garden.
Andrei Grigoriev appolones. Photo: Artem Makeev.
Kiev restaurant Ani Lorak is a complete dedication to the singer. The walls are decorated with its photos, and the names of the dishes in the menu contain lines from her songs.
Unusual entourage was chosen by Andrei Grigoriev-Apollonov. His establishment is stylized under the casino: tape measure tables and black jack. Here in the kitchen there are periodically culinary master classes from Andrey himself and his friends.
To attract visitors to your club-restaurant, Nikolay Baskov came up with his own "shit": in the karaoke hall it is not possible to sing in a simple microphone, but in a diamond - the one that "natural blonde" received as a gift to his anniversary.
Alexander Rosenbaumu owns a network of beer restaurants located in different parts of St. Petersburg. A feature of these warm places is the choice of snacks of A la USssr: Vobla, Split, Moja, garlic croutons. And of course, here sell beer for removal, spilling it into three-liter banks or bids.
But the restaurant of Azerbaijani and Arabic cuisine, owned by Sati Casanova, is famous for secular parties. There are not only domestic celebrities, but also overseas. For example, Chris North, Andy Garcia and Francis Ford Coppola visited him. Moreover, compliments from the famous director are expensive, because he himself is one of the most successful restaurants and winemakers. Its restaurants of neapolitan cuisine serves dishes that the heroes of his immortal saga "Great Father" were taking place. Here you can taste wines from the vineyards of the director.
And the most unusual among the actors is recognized as an institution belonging to actress Susan Sarandon. As a fan of table tennis, she opened a bar who specializes in this game. On the square of more than a thousand two hundred square meters there are tennis tables, and along with the waiters there are also coaches. And this is reasonable: first, it was tasty, and then immediately, behind the same table, the extra "sodden" kilograms slengled. It is worth noting that there are many secular parties with the participation of American celebrities.
Compared to Hollywood, the fashion for star restaurants came to Russia not so long ago, but it develops with seven-world steps, so it is possible that our artists are very soon sharing their Western colleagues. The main thing is that business does not distract celebrities from their main professional activity, because we love them not for culinary sizes.
Alexandra Egorova