Guy Fieri to host Oaks Bourbon Brunch in May 2009

Kentucky's Courier Journal reports Guy Fieri will host the inaugural Marriott Oaks Bourbon Brunch on Friday May 1, 2009.

The event features Guy Fieri, renowned pastry chef Gale Gand and mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim with on-site cooking demonstrations, savory food and beverage pairings and incredible silent and live auction items — all for a great cause.

"At the brunch, Fieri will put on a cooking demo using Kentucky Proud products in the bourbon-based courses, mixing in a dash of his signature flair."

Brunch will be held at the Marriott Louisville Downtown from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Tickets are $125. Proceeds benefit the Louisville-based Home of the Innocents.

The Home is the region's open arms to kids in crisis — caring for children of abuse, abandonment and neglect, those who are medically fragile, and children with autism. Last year alone, the Home provided services to over two thousand children and families.


For more information about the event, please contact Ina de Mattos at (502) 596-1016 or idemattos@homeoftheinnocents.org.

Pork En Fuego - as seen on The Tonight Show

Scene from The Tonight Show

Pork En Fuego
Courtesy Guy Fieri

1 pound Pork Tenderloin, silver skin removed, sliced into 1" rounds
3 Strips bacon, sliced into ½" pieces
1 ½ teaspoons Cayenne pepper
1 ½ teaspoons Cumin
1 ½ teaspoons Granulated Garlic
1 ½ teaspoons Basil
1 ½ teaspoons Oregano
1 ½ teaspoons black pepper, (freshly cracked)
1 ½ teaspoons Paprika
3 teaspoons Thyme
½ large yellow onion, diced (¾ cup)
1 ½ Tablespoons garlic (minced)
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 ½ Cups Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
1/3 Cup hot cherry peppers, chopped
1 cup chicken stock (low sodium)
1 Tablespoons Worcestershire
½ cup Cabo Wabo Tequila
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter
½ cup green onions, sliced thin
1 Tablespoons cilantro, chopped
1 ½ Tablespoons basil, julienned
4 Ciabatta Rolls (split, spread with garlic butter and grilled)
8 pieces Havarti Cheese

Combine dry spices and rub on pork slices. Set aside. In a large sauté pan, over medium high heat, cook bacon until just crisp. Add in onions, sauté until lightly caramelized, add in pork, garlic and red pepper flakes. Cook for about 4-6 minutes, turning pork as needed. Deglaze with tequila, add in tomatoes, hot cherry peppers, Worcestershire, remaining stock and let simmer for 5-6 minutes to finish pork and combine flavors. Add butter, half the green onions, cilantro and basil. Add salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste. Serve immediately, piling over bottom of roll, topping with cheese, capping with top, offset... garnish with remaining green onions.



Yield: 8 servings
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 35 minutes
Ease of preparation: Moderate

Guy Fieri on the Tonight Show

If you are looking for Guy Fieri on The Jay Leno Show, click here for the 10 @ 10 segment from November 2009, or click here for the segment with Kim Kardashian from January 2010.

Here is the video from Guy Fieri's segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, March 20, 2009.



If you are experiencing difficulties with the embedding, try viewing the video here.

According to the Press Democrat, the two T.V. hosts talked about cars backstage. Leno took Fieri outside to see the car he was driving that day, a Corvette ZR1.

Jay Leno and his Corvette

"Carlson Restaurants' TGI Friday's has reached out to six to eight agencies in a review of creative and media duties on its brand," according to BrandWeek.com. If there is a change in ad agencies, it's unclear at this time if it will affect Guy's status as spokesman for the restaurant chain.

Thompson and McCoy," owners of The Orchard House in Idaho, "still don't know exactly how the network found out about the eatery. 'However it happened, it was just amazing,' Thompson said. 'We were just blown away.'

Kris Thompson, Guy Fieri and Sherri McCoy

And a recent press release states that on January 6, 2009, Guy Fieri and his "Triple-D" crew visited Chef Point Cafe in Watauga, Texas to shoot a segment that will be aired on Monday, April 6, 2009, at 9 p.m., coinciding with the series' sixth season premiere.

Chef Franson and Guy Fieri

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Commercial for Flowmaster

I wonder how long ago this was made?

Update on Triple-D taping in Portland

Kelly Clarke of the Willamette Week Online was on hand to sample Portland's tastiest sausages and visit with Guy Fieri and the crew for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives today in Portland, OR.

She caught up with the taping at Otto's Sausage Kitchen; "Fieri sat next to me and cracked jokes about pork love and asked my dad about car parts while the cameras rolled." And she learned a thing or two ... or five ... about the Food Network and television in general.

"The crew shoots around 15 to 17 half-hour tapes for each location they visit ... edited down to around seven minutes of screen time for each restaurant."

The filming crew is "on the road around 240 days a year. "

"TV people don't like it when you really eat. 'Eat slow,' begged one assistant"

"That car that Fieri motors around in? Not his. It belongs to the show's executive producer ... (towed) across the country"

The quote of the whole article:

"Portland's bitchin'," Fieri told me as he waited in the sunshine for his crew to set up the next shot at Otto's. "It's days like this that make me wanna buy three houses here. But the rainy season makes me want to kill myself."

A real Portlander couldn't have put it better.

Other places visited by the Triple-D crew included Pine State Biscuits, Arleta Library Cafe and Pok Pok.

To view a map of all of the restaurants Guy Fieri visited in the Portland area, click here.

Byways Cafe - Retro
Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe - Biscuits, Bagels and BLT's
Otto's Sausage - Go-To Joints
Pine State Biscuits - All Kinds of Classics
Podnah's Pit Barbeque - Only At This Joint
Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain - Old Time Favorites
Pok Pok Restaurant - You Can Say That Again
Bunk Sandwiches - Upper Crust

Triple-D filming in Portland this week

Reports on the Internet claim that Guy Fieri will be taping for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in Portland this week, Tuesday March 17 through Thursday March 19, with follow-up taping by the crew on Friday March 20. The conjectured "to-tape" list so far:

Podnah's Pit
1469 NE Prescott St
Portland, OR 97211
(503) 281-3700

Pok Pok Restaurant
3226 SE Division Street
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 232-1387

Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain
308 SW Washington St
Portland
(503) 295-2583

If you plan to visit this places, be sure to call ahead and confirm the places are open to the public during filming.

*update*
From their blog, EatAtBlueplate says:

We will be closed on Thursday & Friday to make room for cameras and such. However we do need happy customers to come in and eat (for free!) and be interviewed by the Triple D crew. If you are interested, come by on Friday from noon 'til 2. First come, first serve. You may have to hang around and eat/drink what's put in front of you, but hey...you might end up on TV!
Air date not confirmed, however they *think* by end of Summer.

*update*
To view all the Triple D restaurants Guy Fieri visited in the Portland, OR area, click here.

Guy Fieri to appear on the Tonight Show

Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m. ET on NBC)

March 16, Monday: Julia Louis Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine), Jim Norton, Randy Rogers Band

March 17, Tuesday: Portia DeRossi (Better Off Ted), D.L. Hughley, Soundtrack of Our Lives

March 18, Wednesday: Reese Witherspoon (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Keith Olberman, Naturally 7

March 19, Thursday: Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), John Cena, the Mercedes Benz Outdoor Concert Series with Kelly Clarkson

March 20, Friday: Seth Rogen (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Guy Fieri, Chris Cornell

Guy Fieri to co-host a UNLVino event in April

The UNLVino wine tasting event kicks off at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 2009 at the Palms Pool and Bungalows with “Bubble-licious,” featuring champagne and sparkling wines. If you’ve ever experienced Las Vegas in the spring you know this evening outdoor event will be spectacular. Guy Fieri, celebrity chef and Food Network television personality, will co-host.

Created by Larry Ruvo, Senior Managing Director of Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada and Jerry Vallen, founding Dean of the Hotel College in 1974, to date, UNLVino® has raised millions, making this one of the largest endowments for scholarship and student activities at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and possibly the most unique educational fund raiser in the world.

Poolside at The Palms

Advance purchased tickets are $100 or pay $125 at the door. Home to the Playboy Club, the Palms is located on Flamingo Road, just west of the Las Vegas Strip. The Palms is popular hotel for celebrities, a great place to "vacation like a rockstar" during your wine tasting vacation.

Tickets
Must be 21 to enter
No children; no refunds

New Episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives airs Monday

Fans of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives have had to wait a few weeks for a new episode. The waiting ends Monday night.

Staff Writer John Burgeson of the Connecticut Post reports that the "Super Duper Weenie, the hot dog emporium at 306 Black Rock Turnpike, gets to sizzle in the national spotlight Monday when it's featured on 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,' a program on the Food Network."


Guy Fieri is "just like he is on the show," John Pellegrino Jr., one of the owners of Super Duper, said about the program's host, Guy Fieri. "He comes in and asks a ton of questions; he's really into it."

Pellegrino said the program was taped over three days last October. Fieri spent the entire day at Super Duper Weenie on the last day of production, he said.

The Super Duper Weenie owners initially met Fieri last summer while catering a house party in Greenwich, which is one of their other lines of business. "Guy was cooking on the truck with us and everything," Pellegrino said. "He even signed our truck."

Airing on Monday, March 16, 2009:

Bert's Burger Bowl (no website)
235 N Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 982-0215
map




California Tacos (no website)
3235 California Street, Omaha, NE 68131
(402) 342-0212
map





Super Duper Weenie website
306 Black Rock Turnpike, Fairfield, CT 06825
(203) 334-3647
map

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Guy Fieri hits the San Diego nightlife

Reports are that Guy Fieri was at Jimmy Love's in San Diego on Saturday night, March 14 2009. And this wasn't the first time. In her Yelp review of the club in July of 2007, Kelly H. of Pasedena said:

Ok so why five stars you are wondering? Cover charge, bathrooms downstairs, and persistent old men? I saw a celebrity. That's right folks, a television star was at Jimmy Love's. Ok so it wasn't Paris or Lindsay Blowhan (and thank goodness or I would have left), but I was excited anyway. I noticed him when I walked in and thought - wait, I know that guy.... It was Guy Fieri from the Food Network. Yeah I'm a nerd for knowing who he was but oh well. Actually talked to him a few times through the night, and my comedy was definitely A game, so he even proclaimed me to be "Fantastic!" My life is complete.

Guest DJ: Guy Fieri

Partying on a Saturday Night

Guy and one of his security guards