The whole point of being a celebrity chef — whether it's by exceptionally working through the ranks at already notable restaurants run by others ,or making a name for oneself with appearances on Food Network, daytime T.V., or "Top Chef" — is to open a restaurant all one's own.
It's something a chef's professional life builds to, a statement and encapsulation of everything they believe about food, and their attempt to make a mark on the culinary culture. And from a business point of view, a restaurant bearing the name or imprint of a celebrity chef seems like a fail-proof idea. Out of all the restaurants from which diners can choose, celebrity chef eateries have a built-in selling point and potentially huge audience.
. Here are all the biggest restaurants that spectacularly and inexplicably failed, despite being devised by some of the world's best and best known celebrity chefs. Cat Cora's FatBird One of , Cat Cora is quite well-known for her food television accomplishments — she's the first woman to win "Iron Chef America" and co-hosted "Around the World in 80 Plates" and "My Kitchen Rules.
" The chef's name is most associated by the public with restaurants. The chef helped open 15 restaurants, and most have enjoyed consistent success, such as Postino in San Francisco, and Kouzzina at Walt Disney World, as well as hundreds of Olilo and Wicked Eats pop-ups and numerous Cat Cora's Kitchen locations in American airports. Cora's least successful dining concept was a Southern.