{"id":2621,"date":"2023-04-05T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2023-04-05T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:10:01","slug":"wolfgang-pucks-spago-in-beverly-hills-is-home-to-the-world-traveling-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/golf\/personalities\/2621\/wolfgang-pucks-spago-in-beverly-hills-is-home-to-the-world-traveling-chef","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Puck\u2019s Spago in Beverly Hills is Home to the World-Traveling Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hollywood\u2019s Favorite Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck sits and sips at Spago. Photo By: Harrison Shiels<\/p><\/div>\n

Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck, 73, after decades of success, culinary innovation, and expansion, still has his foot on the gas.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is too short to brake,<\/em>\u201d said Puck, who was on his way from Beverly Hills to Bahrain to attend a glamorous, international Formula One circuit open-wheel car race. \u201cWe always have a big party and I am going to see my friends Lawrence Stroll, who runs Aston Martin and his son Lance, who races the cars; and Toto Wolff who runs the Mercedes team.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

After I self-parked my Chevy Blazer, Chef Puck and I spoke over craft margaritas and dazzling deserts at his famed, snazzy Spago \u2013 th landmark restaurant in Beverly Hills that is his fashionable flagship. Spago, which pioneered the \u201copen-kitchen concept,\u201d is dark and stylish with dramatic lighting. I ordered the Wiener schnitzel ($75) in honor of the Austrian-born Puck, whose road to epicurean education led him through Monaco, Paris, and Indianapolis before settling in Los Angeles in 1975.<\/p>\n

Spago, originally on the Sunset Strip before moving to Beverly Hills, gave Chef Puck the world on a string (Spago, in Italian, means \u201cstring,\u201d which is slang for spaghetti noodle.) Celebrities waited in line for his signature smoked salmon pizza (with cr\u00e8me fraiche replacing the mozzarella.)<\/p>\n

The Hollywood stars came out once again after this year\u2019s Academy Awards ceremony for the Governor\u2019s Ball \u2013 the premier Oscar After-Event in a ballroom above the Dolby Theater \u2013 an exclusive bash Puck has catered for 29 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored to do it. We served another amazing menu of smoked salmon; chicken pot pie; black truffle risotto and lobster; beef wellington and fish and chips – which I had my chef from London come to do. We always have something from each of our restaurants,<\/em>\u201d Puck explained. \u201cSo, a lot of different things and our chocolate-covered Oscars. We cover them in 24-carat gold so everyone gets an Oscar from me!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The buzz is that Barbara Streisand and Prince Albert of Monaco love Puck\u2019s chicken pot pie.<\/p>\n

Wolfgang Puck became a star himself, writing books, opening restaurants such as CUT in the nearby Beverly Wilshire Hotel by Four Seasons and four in Las Vegas; creating take-home grocery items; having his food appear in Disney theme parks and his name referred to in pop-culture such as the movie \u201cDie Hard.\u201d But Puck insisted to me he is hands-on when it comes to his kitchens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love what I do. I have passion for it.\u00a0This morning\u00a0I went to Santa Barbara to see my fishermen when they bring in the fish because we always buy the best quality. Vegetables, fruit, fish, whatever it is we get the best.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

I asked Chef Puck if he\u2019d run into the deposed Duchess and Duke of Cornwall – who abdicated royal titles to live in that part of California \u2013 when he was there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see Meghan and Harry. I am not a big fan of them. I am reading his book now and he seems like a cry baby.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolfgang and I toasted our craft margaritas \u2013 a concoction he created to the server.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to drink like Chef Wolfgang Puck,<\/em>\u201d I told him. \u201cThroughout the day, how can we all eat like Wolfgang?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Puck considered my question for barely a beat when the entrepreneur in him surfaced in his answer. \u201cCome to Spago and it will be very easy. Unless you are a really good cook. Then I will send you the recipe.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Michael Patrick Shiels at\u00a0<\/em>MShiels@aol.com<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0His radio program may be found at\u00a0MiBigShow.com or weekday mornings\u00a0from 9-noon\u00a0on WJIM\u00a0AM 1240<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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