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Curtis Stone Addresses His Haters, Plans to Open LA Restaurant

Curtis StonePhoto: Casey Rodgers / AP Images for Bravo

YumSugar interviews omnipresent celebrity chef, "Top Chef Masters" host and "America's Next Best Restaurant" judge Curtis Stone and finds him "surprisingly grounded and impressively well-spoken." Stone has recently caught some flack for being more of a pretty face (those eyes!) than, well, a chef. Eater recently asked the question on everyone's mind, "Who the Hell is Curtis Stone Anyway?").

In the YumSugar interview
, Stone admits that his detractors almost have a point. "If you're going to say you're a chef, you need to cook somewhere, which is why I'm opening a restaurant. I miss cooking in a restaurant, and that camaraderie, and that art of perfection that I was talking about."

Stone hopes his Los Angeles restaurant will be "a nice little place, where you can still cook for people the way you want to...I want it to be relaxed and special; I think 40 or 50 seats would see me out." Don't worry ladies, the man still has a few tricks up his sleeve (note: he is involved with the actress Lindsay Price). When asked what he wants to be remembered for, the cheeky Stone answered, "A few things spring to mind that I shouldn't say out loud."

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Gnc

4-21-2011 @8:57PM Gnc said... Curtis, or whomever you are (just kidding), just ignore negative people. They are the gnats on the seashore of life. You know, when you're walking along the beautiful beach, sand running through your toes, sun overhead, soft breeze from the waves, and all of a sudden your head is surrounded by Gnats! You try to swish them away, you try turning in circles, until finally you duck and run like hell hoping to confuse them and escape. You usually succeed after one heartfelt try.

That's how people are. They are liliputians (read Gulliver's Travels) who are desperate to demote anybody they think is better than they are, which is everybody. ;)

Keep up the good work, stay sweet, and looks or no looks, like will take you where you want to go.


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Lou

4-22-2011 @8:57AM Lou said... Curtis....it's easy to make a million dollars in the restaurant business...all you have to do is put $2 million into it! Are you really going to put yourself through all the angst of opening a restaurant? Seriously, I wish I lived closer because I'd be one of your first customers!
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Ken

4-21-2011 @11:06PM Ken said... First, he needs to bathe, shave and comb his unrully hair...then wear an apron, then, he'll look
like a chef !!! Most dress in the most un-cooking clothes or look as if they're going out to plow the back 40 ! The women's make up looks like an after 5 show.... Of all the cooking shows, I know of only two or three that are dressed approprately...just an apron does the job.

Ken
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Frank

4-21-2011 @11:17PM Frank said... My number one suggestion for Mr. Stone is this.........Get a shave and a haircut.
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POWERbottomNYC

4-22-2011 @12:08AM POWERbottomNYC said... YUMSUGAR- So Mr. Stone where was your last cooking gig as a Chef?

STONE: Well dahling I was head lettuce taco stuffer at a small Bistro in Chelsea! It had a french flare-

YUMSUGAR- So it was french cooking?

STONE- Well of course it was call Le Taco Bell!
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Melissa

4-22-2011 @2:41AM Melissa said... Why would anyone hate Curtis Stone? I think he's great. I loved it when he had "Take Home Chef". Now he has a new gig on Bravo. Good for him. Anyone who hates Curtis is just jealous of him.
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pat

4-24-2011 @12:10PM pat said... I love Curtis!! You go~~~

Kelly

4-25-2011 @6:32PM Kelly said... You said it sister!!. I'm happy to have Curtis on not one but 2 shows. Loved Take Home Chef. The others are jealous as you said. Go Curtis

Jo

4-23-2011 @10:30AM Jo said... I love to watch Curtis, he makes everything looks so easy. His recipes are great!!! Burn some white sage to keep the haters away.
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Anne

4-25-2011 @10:05PM Anne said... This 63yr great cook grandmother thinks Curtis Stone is one of the best chef's I've ever seen. Love watching him cook (to bad to his detractors, but he just happens to be a wonderful chef, he can't help it that he's soooo cute!) Have learned a lot from watching him prepare dishes that are simple and wonderful. I don't get chef's who think if they use 38 hard to find ingredients, that it makes a better dish than 5 to 10 can find most places ingredients. Not to mention that you can learn a lot of great cooking tricks and methods watching him on aol cooking videos. Curtis you stay the way you are, GREAT COOK, happy, and looks like in love Aussie. (Think Curtis and Lindsay Price make a great couple!)
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connie bauer

5-19-2011 @12:54AM connie bauer said... I love him!!! I wish he'd come to my supermarket. I think I like his veggie and dessert dishes the best.
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